1 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
4 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
5 DoS attacks harder to perform.
7 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
8 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
9 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
10 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
11 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
14 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
15 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
16 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
17 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
20 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
21 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
22 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
23 this. Closes ticket 40227.
25 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
26 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
27 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
28 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
29 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
31 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
32 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
33 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
34 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
35 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
36 weasel for diagnosing this.
38 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
39 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
40 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
41 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
42 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
43 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
44 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
46 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
47 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
48 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
49 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
51 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
52 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
53 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
54 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
56 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
57 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
58 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
59 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
60 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
61 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
62 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
64 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
65 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
68 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
69 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
70 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
71 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
72 DoS attacks harder to perform.
74 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
75 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
77 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
78 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
79 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
80 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
81 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
84 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
85 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
86 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
87 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
88 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
90 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
91 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
92 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
93 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
96 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
97 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
98 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
99 this. Closes ticket 40227.
101 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
102 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
103 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
104 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
105 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
107 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
108 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
109 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
110 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
111 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
112 weasel for diagnosing this.
114 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
115 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
116 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
117 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
118 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
119 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
120 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
122 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
123 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
124 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
127 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
128 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
129 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
131 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
132 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
133 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
134 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
136 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
137 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
138 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
139 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
140 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
141 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
142 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
144 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
145 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
148 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
149 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
150 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
151 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
152 DoS attacks harder to perform.
154 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
155 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
156 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
157 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
158 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
161 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
162 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
163 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
164 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
165 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
167 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
168 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
169 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
170 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
173 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
174 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
175 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
176 this. Closes ticket 40227.
178 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
179 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
180 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
181 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
182 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
184 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
185 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
186 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
187 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
188 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
189 weasel for diagnosing this.
191 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
192 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
193 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
194 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
195 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
196 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
197 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
199 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
200 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
201 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
203 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
204 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
205 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
206 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
208 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
209 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
210 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
211 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
213 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
214 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
215 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
216 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
218 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
219 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
222 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
223 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
224 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
225 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
226 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
228 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
229 release, though of course that could change.
231 o Major feature (exit):
232 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
233 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
234 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
237 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
238 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
239 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
243 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
244 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
245 several bugs present in previous releases.
247 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
248 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
250 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
251 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
252 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
254 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
255 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
256 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
257 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
258 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
260 o Minor feature (build system):
261 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
262 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
263 this. Closes ticket 40227.
265 o Minor features (authority, logging):
266 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
267 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
269 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
270 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
273 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
274 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
275 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
276 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
277 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
278 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
279 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
281 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
282 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
283 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
284 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
285 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
288 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
289 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
290 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
291 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
293 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
294 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
295 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
296 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
299 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
300 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
301 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
302 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
304 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
305 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
306 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
307 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
309 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
310 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
311 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
312 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
313 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
316 o Minor features (crypto):
317 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
318 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
319 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
320 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
321 weasel for diagnosing this.
323 o Minor features (documentation):
324 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
325 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
326 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
329 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
330 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
331 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
332 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
333 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
336 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
337 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
338 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
339 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
340 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
342 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
343 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
344 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
346 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
347 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
348 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
350 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
351 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
352 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
353 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
354 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
357 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
358 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
359 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
360 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
363 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
364 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
365 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
366 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
367 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
368 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
371 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
372 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
373 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
374 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
375 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
376 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
377 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
379 o Minor features (compilation):
380 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
381 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
382 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
383 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
385 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
386 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
387 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
388 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
389 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
391 o Minor features (safety):
392 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
393 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
396 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
397 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
398 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
399 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
400 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
401 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
403 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
404 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
405 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
406 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
407 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
408 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
409 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
410 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
411 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
413 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
414 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
415 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
416 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
417 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
418 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
420 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
421 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
422 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
423 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
424 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
425 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
426 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
428 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
429 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
430 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
431 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
433 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
434 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
435 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
437 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
438 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
439 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
441 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
442 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
443 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
444 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
445 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
446 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
447 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
449 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
450 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
451 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
452 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
453 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
454 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
455 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
457 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
458 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
459 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
461 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
462 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
464 o Removed features (controller):
465 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
466 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
469 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
470 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
471 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
472 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
473 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
474 intended for a different relay.
476 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
477 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
478 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
479 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
480 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
481 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
482 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
484 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
485 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
486 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
487 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
488 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
489 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
490 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
491 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
492 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
493 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
494 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
496 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
497 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
498 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
499 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
502 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
503 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
504 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
506 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
507 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
508 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
510 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
511 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
512 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
513 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
514 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
515 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
517 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
518 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
519 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
521 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
522 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
523 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
526 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
527 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
528 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
529 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
532 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
533 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
534 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
535 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
536 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
538 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
539 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
540 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
543 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
544 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
545 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
546 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
548 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
549 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
550 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
551 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
552 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
553 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
554 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
556 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
557 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
558 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
559 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
560 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
563 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
564 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
565 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
566 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
567 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
568 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
570 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
571 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
572 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
573 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
576 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
577 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
578 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
579 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
581 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
582 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
583 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
585 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
586 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
587 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
589 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
590 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
591 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
592 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
593 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
595 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
596 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
597 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
599 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
600 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
601 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
602 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
603 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
604 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
605 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
607 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
608 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
609 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
612 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
613 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
614 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
615 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
616 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
617 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
620 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
621 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
622 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
623 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
625 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
626 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
627 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
628 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
630 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
631 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
632 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
634 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
635 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
638 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
639 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
640 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
641 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
642 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
643 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
644 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
647 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
648 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
649 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
650 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
651 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
653 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
654 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
655 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
656 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
658 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
659 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
660 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
661 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
662 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
663 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
664 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
666 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
667 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
668 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
669 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
670 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
673 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
674 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
675 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
676 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
677 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
678 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
680 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
681 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
682 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
683 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
685 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
686 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
687 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
688 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
691 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
692 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
693 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
694 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
696 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
697 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
698 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
700 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
701 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
702 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
704 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
705 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
706 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
707 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
708 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
710 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
711 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
712 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
714 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
715 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
716 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
717 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
718 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
719 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
720 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
722 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
723 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
724 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
727 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
728 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
729 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
730 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
731 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
732 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
735 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
736 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
737 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
738 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
740 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
741 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
742 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
743 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
745 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
746 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
747 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
749 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
750 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
754 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
755 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
756 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
759 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
760 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
761 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
762 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
763 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
764 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
765 series soon, after it has had some testing.
767 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
769 o Major features (build):
770 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
771 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
772 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
773 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
774 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
776 o Major features (metrics):
777 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
778 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
779 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
780 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
781 information and security considerations.
782 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
783 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
784 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
786 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
787 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
788 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
789 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
790 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
791 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
792 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
793 use. Closes ticket 33220.
794 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
795 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
796 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
799 o Major features (tracing):
800 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
801 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
802 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
803 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
804 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
806 o Major bugfixes (security):
807 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
808 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
809 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
810 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
811 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
812 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
814 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
815 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
816 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
817 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
818 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
819 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
821 o Minor features (address discovery):
822 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
823 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
824 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
825 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
827 o Minor features (admin tools):
828 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
829 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
830 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
833 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
834 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
835 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
836 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
837 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
838 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
840 o Minor features (build):
841 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
842 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
843 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
844 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
845 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
847 o Minor features (configuration):
848 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
849 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
850 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
851 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
852 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
853 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
855 o Minor features (control port):
856 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
857 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
858 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
859 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
861 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
862 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
863 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
866 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
867 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
868 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
869 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
870 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
871 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
872 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
874 o Minor features (directory authorities):
875 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
876 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
877 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
878 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
879 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
880 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
881 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
882 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
884 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
885 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
886 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
887 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
888 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
889 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
890 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
891 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
892 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
893 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
894 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
895 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
896 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
897 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
898 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
900 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
901 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
902 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
903 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
905 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
906 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
907 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
908 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
910 o Minor features (heartbeat):
911 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
912 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
914 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
915 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
916 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
918 o Minor features (logging):
919 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
920 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
921 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
922 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
923 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
924 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
926 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
927 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
928 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
929 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
931 o Minor features (onion services):
932 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
933 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
934 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
936 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
937 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
938 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
939 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
940 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
941 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
943 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
944 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
945 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
946 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
947 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
948 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
949 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
951 o Minor features (relay):
952 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
953 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
954 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
955 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
956 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
959 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
960 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
961 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
964 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
965 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
966 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
967 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
968 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
969 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
970 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
971 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
972 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
974 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
975 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
977 o Minor features (specification update):
978 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
979 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
980 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
982 o Minor features (state management):
983 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
984 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
985 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
986 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
987 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
989 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
990 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
991 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
992 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
993 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
995 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
996 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
997 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
998 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1000 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1001 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1003 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1004 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1005 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1006 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1007 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1009 o Minor features (testing):
1010 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1011 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1013 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
1014 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1015 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1017 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1018 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1019 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1021 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1022 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1023 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1024 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1026 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1027 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1028 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1029 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1030 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1031 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1032 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1033 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1034 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1036 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1037 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1038 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1039 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1040 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1041 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1042 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1044 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1045 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1046 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1047 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1048 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1049 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1051 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1052 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
1053 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
1054 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
1057 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1058 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1059 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1060 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1061 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1063 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1064 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1065 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1066 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1067 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1068 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1069 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1070 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1073 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
1074 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1075 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1078 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1079 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1080 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1081 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1082 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1083 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1084 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1086 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1087 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1088 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1089 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1090 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1091 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1094 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1095 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1097 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1098 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1099 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1100 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1101 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1102 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1103 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1104 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1106 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
1107 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1108 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1109 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1111 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1112 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1113 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1114 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1115 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1116 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1117 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1118 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1119 Closes ticket 34200.
1120 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1121 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1122 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1123 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1124 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1125 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1126 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1128 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1129 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1130 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1131 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
1132 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
1133 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
1136 o Deprecated features:
1137 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
1138 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
1139 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
1142 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
1143 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
1146 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
1147 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
1148 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
1149 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
1151 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
1152 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
1154 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
1155 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
1156 directory. Closes part of 40139.
1157 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
1158 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
1162 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
1163 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1165 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
1166 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
1167 31699; Patch by @bduszel
1169 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
1170 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
1171 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
1172 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
1173 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
1175 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1176 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
1177 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
1178 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
1179 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
1181 o Documentation (manual page):
1182 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
1183 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
1184 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
1185 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
1187 o Documentation (tracing):
1188 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
1189 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
1192 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
1193 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
1194 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
1195 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
1196 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
1197 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
1198 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1200 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1201 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1202 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1203 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
1204 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
1206 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
1207 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
1208 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
1210 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1211 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1213 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
1214 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
1215 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
1216 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
1217 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
1218 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1220 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
1221 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1222 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1223 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1224 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1226 o Minor features (control port):
1227 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
1228 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
1229 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1231 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
1232 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
1233 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
1234 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
1235 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
1236 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
1238 o Minor features (tests):
1239 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1240 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1241 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1243 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
1244 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
1245 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1247 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1248 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1249 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1250 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1253 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
1254 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
1255 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
1258 o Major features (fallback directory list):
1259 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1260 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1261 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1263 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
1264 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1265 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1266 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1267 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1270 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1271 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
1272 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
1273 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
1274 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
1276 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
1277 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
1278 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
1279 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
1282 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
1283 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1284 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1285 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1286 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1287 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1291 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
1292 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
1293 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
1296 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1297 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1298 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1299 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1300 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1301 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
1304 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
1305 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
1306 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
1308 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1309 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1310 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1311 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1312 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1313 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1314 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1317 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1318 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1319 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1320 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1323 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1324 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1325 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1326 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1327 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1328 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1330 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1331 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1332 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1333 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1334 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1335 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1337 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1338 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1339 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1341 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1342 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1343 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1344 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1347 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1348 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1349 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1350 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1353 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1354 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1355 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1356 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1357 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1360 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1361 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1363 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1364 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1365 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1366 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1367 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1370 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1371 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1372 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1373 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1374 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1375 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1377 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1378 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1379 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1380 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1382 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1383 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1384 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1385 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1388 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1389 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1390 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1391 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1392 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1393 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1394 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1395 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1399 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1400 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1401 several that affect usability and portability.
1403 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1404 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1405 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1406 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1407 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1408 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1409 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1412 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1413 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1414 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1415 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1418 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1419 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1420 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1421 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1422 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1423 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1425 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1426 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1427 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1428 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1429 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1431 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1432 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1433 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1434 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1436 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1437 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1438 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1439 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1440 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1441 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1443 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1444 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1445 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1447 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1448 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1449 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1450 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1453 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1454 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1455 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1456 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1459 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1460 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1461 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1462 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1463 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1464 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1467 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1468 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1469 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1471 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1472 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1473 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1474 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1476 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1477 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1478 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1479 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1480 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1483 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1484 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1485 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1486 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1487 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1488 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1490 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1491 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1492 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1493 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1494 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1496 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1497 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1498 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1499 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1501 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1502 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1503 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1504 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1506 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1507 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1508 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1509 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1512 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1513 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1514 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1515 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1516 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1517 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1518 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1519 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1523 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1524 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1525 some affecting usability.
1527 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1528 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1529 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1530 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1531 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1532 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1533 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1536 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1537 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1538 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1539 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1542 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1543 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1544 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1547 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1548 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1549 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1552 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1553 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1554 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1556 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1557 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1558 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1559 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1561 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1562 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1563 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1564 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1566 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1567 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1568 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1570 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1571 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1572 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1573 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1574 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1576 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1577 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1578 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1580 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1581 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1582 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1583 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1585 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1586 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1590 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
1591 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
1592 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
1593 compatibility, and portability issues.
1595 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1596 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1597 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1598 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1599 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1600 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1601 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1604 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
1605 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1606 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1607 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1610 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1611 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
1612 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
1613 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
1614 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
1617 o Minor features (directory authority):
1618 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
1619 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
1620 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
1621 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
1622 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
1624 o Minor features (entry guards):
1625 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
1626 Closes ticket 40001.
1628 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
1629 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
1630 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
1631 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
1632 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
1633 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
1634 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
1636 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
1637 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1638 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1640 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
1641 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
1642 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1644 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
1645 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
1646 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
1649 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1650 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1651 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1653 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
1654 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
1655 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
1656 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1658 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1659 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1660 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1661 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1663 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1664 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
1665 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
1668 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
1669 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1672 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
1673 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
1674 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
1675 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
1676 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
1677 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
1678 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
1679 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1682 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
1683 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
1684 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
1685 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
1686 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
1687 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1689 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
1691 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
1692 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
1693 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
1694 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
1695 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
1696 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
1697 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
1698 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
1699 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
1700 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
1702 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
1703 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
1704 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
1705 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
1706 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
1707 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
1708 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
1710 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
1712 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
1713 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
1714 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
1715 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
1717 o Major features (v3 onion services):
1718 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
1719 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
1720 Closes ticket 32709.
1722 o Minor feature (developer tools):
1723 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
1724 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
1726 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
1727 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
1728 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
1729 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
1732 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
1733 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
1734 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1736 o Minor feature (python scripts):
1737 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
1738 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
1739 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
1740 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
1742 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
1743 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
1744 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
1745 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
1746 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
1748 o Minor features (code safety):
1749 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
1750 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
1751 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
1752 Resolves issue 33788.
1754 o Minor features (compilation size):
1755 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
1756 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
1758 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1759 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
1760 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
1761 Resolves ticket 32143.
1763 o Minor features (control port):
1764 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
1765 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
1766 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
1767 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1769 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1770 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
1771 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
1772 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
1773 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
1774 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
1776 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
1777 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
1778 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
1779 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
1781 o Minor features (directory):
1782 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
1783 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
1784 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
1787 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
1788 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
1789 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
1791 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
1792 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
1793 Closes ticket 33901.
1795 o Minor features (logging):
1796 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
1797 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
1799 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
1800 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
1801 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
1802 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
1803 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
1804 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
1805 up from ticket 33316.
1807 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
1808 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
1809 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
1810 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1812 o Minor features (windows):
1813 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
1814 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
1816 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
1817 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1818 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1819 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1820 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1822 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
1823 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
1824 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
1825 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
1827 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
1828 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1829 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1830 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1833 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1834 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
1835 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
1836 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
1837 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
1838 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1840 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1841 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
1842 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
1843 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1845 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
1846 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
1847 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
1848 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
1849 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1851 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
1852 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
1853 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1855 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1856 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
1857 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
1858 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
1859 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
1860 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1861 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
1862 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
1863 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
1864 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1866 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
1867 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1868 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1869 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1871 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
1872 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
1873 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
1874 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
1875 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1877 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
1878 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
1879 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1881 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
1882 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
1883 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1885 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
1886 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1887 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1889 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
1890 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
1891 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1894 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
1895 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
1896 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1898 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1899 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1900 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1902 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
1903 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
1904 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
1907 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1908 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1909 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1910 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1912 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1913 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
1914 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
1915 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
1916 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1917 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
1918 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
1919 isolated in subsystems of their own.
1920 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
1921 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
1922 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
1923 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
1925 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
1926 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1927 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
1928 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
1932 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
1933 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
1934 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1935 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1939 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
1940 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
1941 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
1942 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
1943 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1944 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
1945 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
1948 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
1949 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
1950 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
1951 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
1952 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
1953 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1954 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
1955 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
1957 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
1958 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1960 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1961 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1962 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1963 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
1964 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
1965 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
1966 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
1967 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
1968 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
1969 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
1970 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1971 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1973 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
1974 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
1975 code. Closes ticket 33014.
1977 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1978 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
1979 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
1981 o Documentation (manual page):
1982 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
1983 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1984 Google Season of Docs.
1985 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
1986 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
1987 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
1988 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1989 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
1990 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
1991 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
1992 Closes ticket 33778.
1995 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1996 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1997 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1998 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1999 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
2000 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
2003 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2004 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2005 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2006 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
2007 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
2009 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
2010 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
2011 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
2014 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2015 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2017 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
2018 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2019 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2020 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2021 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2022 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2025 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2026 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2027 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2028 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
2029 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
2030 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
2034 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
2035 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2036 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
2037 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
2039 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2040 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2041 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2042 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2043 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2044 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2046 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
2047 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2048 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2049 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2050 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2052 o Minor features (testing):
2053 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2054 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2055 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2056 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2057 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2059 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
2060 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
2061 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
2062 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2064 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
2065 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
2066 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
2067 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2069 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2070 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
2071 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
2072 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
2074 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
2075 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
2076 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
2077 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
2078 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2079 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
2080 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
2081 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
2082 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
2083 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
2084 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2086 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
2087 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2088 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2089 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2090 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2091 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2093 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2094 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2095 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2096 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2097 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
2098 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
2101 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2102 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
2103 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
2104 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
2105 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2106 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
2107 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
2108 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
2110 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2111 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
2112 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
2115 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
2116 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
2117 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
2118 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
2119 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
2123 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2124 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2125 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2126 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2127 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2128 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2129 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2133 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
2134 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
2135 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
2136 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2137 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2138 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2139 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2140 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2141 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2142 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2143 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2146 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2147 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2148 as soon as packages are available.
2150 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
2151 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2152 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2153 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2154 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2155 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2156 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2157 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2158 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2160 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
2161 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2162 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2163 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2164 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2166 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2167 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2168 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2169 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2170 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2172 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2173 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2174 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2175 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2177 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2178 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2179 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
2180 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2182 o Minor features (usability):
2183 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
2184 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
2185 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
2187 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
2188 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2189 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2190 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2193 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
2194 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
2195 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
2196 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
2197 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2199 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2200 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
2203 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
2204 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2205 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2206 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2209 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2210 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2211 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2212 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2215 o Documentation (manpage):
2216 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
2217 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
2218 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2219 Google Season of Docs.
2220 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
2221 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
2223 o Testing (Travis CI):
2224 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2225 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2226 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2228 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2229 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2230 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2231 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2232 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2235 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
2236 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2237 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2238 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
2239 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
2240 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
2241 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
2242 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
2243 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
2244 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
2245 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
2246 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2248 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2249 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2250 as soon as packages are available.
2252 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2253 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2254 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2255 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2256 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2257 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2258 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2259 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2260 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2262 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2263 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2264 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2265 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2266 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2268 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2269 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2270 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2271 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2272 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2274 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2275 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2276 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2277 Closes ticket 33075.
2279 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2280 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2281 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2283 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2284 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2285 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2286 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2287 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2290 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2291 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2292 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2293 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2296 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2297 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2298 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2299 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2301 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2302 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2303 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2304 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2306 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2307 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2308 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2309 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2310 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2313 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
2314 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
2315 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
2316 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
2317 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
2318 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
2319 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
2320 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
2321 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
2322 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
2323 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
2324 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2326 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2327 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2328 as soon as packages are available.
2330 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2331 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2332 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2333 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2334 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2335 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2336 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2337 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2338 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2340 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2341 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2342 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2343 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2344 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2346 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2347 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2348 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2350 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2351 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2352 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2353 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2354 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2357 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2358 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2359 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2360 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2363 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2364 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2365 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2366 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2368 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2369 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2370 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2371 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2373 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2374 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2375 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2376 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2377 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2380 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
2381 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
2382 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2383 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2384 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2385 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2386 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2387 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2388 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2389 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2390 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2393 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2394 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2395 as soon as packages are available.
2397 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2398 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2399 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2400 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2401 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2402 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2403 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2404 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2405 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2407 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2408 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2409 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2410 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2411 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2412 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2413 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2414 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2417 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2418 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2419 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2420 Closes ticket 33075.
2422 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2423 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2424 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2426 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2427 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2428 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2429 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2430 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2432 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2433 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2434 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2435 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2436 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2439 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2440 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2441 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2442 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2445 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2446 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2447 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2448 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2450 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2451 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2452 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2453 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2454 Closes ticket 32629.
2455 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2456 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2457 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2459 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2460 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2462 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2463 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2464 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2465 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2467 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2468 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2469 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2470 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2473 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
2474 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
2475 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
2476 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
2479 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
2480 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
2481 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
2482 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2484 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2485 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
2486 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
2487 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
2489 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2490 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2491 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
2492 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2493 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2494 Closes ticket 33075.
2496 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2497 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
2498 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2500 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2501 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
2502 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2503 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
2505 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2506 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2507 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2509 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2510 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2511 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2512 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2513 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2515 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2516 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2517 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2518 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2520 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2521 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
2522 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
2523 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2525 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
2526 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
2527 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
2528 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
2531 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2532 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
2533 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
2534 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2536 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
2537 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2538 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2539 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2541 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
2542 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
2543 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
2544 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
2545 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
2547 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
2548 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
2549 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
2551 o Documentation (manpage):
2552 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
2553 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
2554 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2557 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2558 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2559 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2560 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2561 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2562 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2564 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2565 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2566 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2567 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2568 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2569 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2570 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2571 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2573 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2574 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2575 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2577 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2578 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2579 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2580 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2582 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2583 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2584 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2585 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2587 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2588 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2589 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2590 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2591 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2592 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2595 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2596 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2597 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2599 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2600 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2601 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2602 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2603 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2604 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2605 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2606 Closes ticket 32629.
2608 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2609 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2612 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2613 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2614 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2615 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2616 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2617 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2619 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2620 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2621 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2622 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2623 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2624 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2625 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2626 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2628 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2629 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2630 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2632 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2633 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2634 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2635 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2636 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2638 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2639 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2640 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2642 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2643 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2644 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2645 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2646 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2647 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2648 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2649 Closes ticket 32629.
2651 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2652 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2655 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
2656 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
2657 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
2658 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
2659 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
2660 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
2661 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
2662 write better code in the future.
2664 o New system requirements:
2665 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
2666 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
2667 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
2669 o Major features (build system):
2670 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
2671 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
2672 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
2673 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
2674 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
2676 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
2677 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
2678 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
2679 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
2680 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2682 o Major features (onion service, controller):
2683 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
2684 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
2685 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
2686 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
2688 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
2689 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
2690 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
2691 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
2693 o Major features (proxy):
2694 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
2695 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
2696 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
2697 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
2698 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
2699 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2701 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
2702 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2703 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2704 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2705 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2706 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2707 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2708 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2710 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2711 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2712 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2714 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2715 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
2716 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
2717 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2719 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2720 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
2721 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
2722 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
2723 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
2724 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2726 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
2727 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
2728 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
2730 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
2731 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
2732 message. Closes ticket 31371.
2734 o Minor features (configuration validation):
2735 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
2736 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
2737 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
2738 Closes ticket 31241.
2740 o Minor features (configuration):
2741 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
2742 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
2744 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
2745 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
2746 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
2747 Implements ticket 32404.
2749 o Minor features (controller):
2750 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
2751 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
2752 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
2754 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2755 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2756 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2757 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2759 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2760 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
2761 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
2764 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2765 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
2766 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
2767 Closes ticket 32772.
2769 o Minor features (developer tools):
2770 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
2771 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
2772 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
2773 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
2774 target. Closes ticket 31919.
2775 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
2776 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
2777 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
2779 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
2780 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
2781 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
2782 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
2784 o Minor features (Doxygen):
2785 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
2786 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
2787 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
2789 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
2790 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
2791 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
2792 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
2793 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
2794 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
2795 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
2796 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
2798 o Minor features (git scripts):
2799 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
2800 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
2801 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
2802 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
2803 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
2804 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
2805 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
2806 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
2807 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
2808 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
2809 Closes ticket 32216.
2810 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
2811 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
2812 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
2813 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
2815 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
2816 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
2817 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
2818 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
2819 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
2820 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
2822 o Minor features (portability, android):
2823 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
2824 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
2825 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2827 o Minor features (relay modularity):
2828 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
2829 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
2830 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2831 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2832 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
2833 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
2834 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2836 o Minor features (relay):
2837 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
2838 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
2840 o Minor features (release tools):
2841 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
2842 Closes ticket 32704.
2844 o Minor features (testing):
2845 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
2846 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
2847 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
2848 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
2849 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
2850 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
2853 o Minor features (tests, Android):
2854 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
2855 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
2856 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2858 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2859 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2860 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2862 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2863 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
2864 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2866 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
2867 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
2868 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
2869 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2871 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2872 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
2873 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
2874 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
2875 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
2876 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
2877 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
2878 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
2879 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
2880 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
2881 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2882 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
2883 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
2884 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
2885 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2887 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2888 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
2889 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
2892 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
2893 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2894 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2895 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2897 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
2898 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
2899 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2901 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
2902 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
2903 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
2904 Closes ticket 32213.
2905 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2906 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
2907 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2909 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2910 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2911 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2912 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2913 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2916 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2917 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
2919 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
2920 Closes ticket 32216.
2922 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
2923 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
2924 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
2925 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
2928 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
2929 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2930 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2931 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2933 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2934 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
2935 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
2936 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
2937 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
2940 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
2941 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
2942 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
2943 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
2944 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
2945 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2947 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2948 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
2949 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
2950 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
2951 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2953 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
2954 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
2955 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2957 o Minor bugfixes (test):
2958 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
2959 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
2960 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
2963 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2964 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
2965 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2966 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2967 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2968 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2969 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2970 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2973 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2974 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
2975 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
2976 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
2977 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
2978 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2980 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
2981 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2982 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2984 o Deprecated features:
2985 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
2986 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
2987 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
2991 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
2992 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
2993 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
2994 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
2995 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
2996 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
2997 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
2998 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3000 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3001 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3004 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3005 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3006 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3007 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3008 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3009 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3011 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3012 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3013 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3014 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3015 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3018 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3019 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3021 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3022 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3023 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3024 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3025 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3026 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3027 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3028 Closes ticket 32629.
3029 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3031 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3032 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3033 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3035 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3036 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3037 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3039 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3040 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3041 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3042 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3043 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3044 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3045 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3046 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3047 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3048 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3049 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3050 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3051 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3052 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3053 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3054 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3055 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3057 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3058 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3060 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3061 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3062 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3064 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3065 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3066 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3067 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3068 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3069 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3071 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3072 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3073 Closes ticket 32163.
3074 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3076 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3078 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3079 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3080 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3081 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3082 Closes ticket 32304.
3083 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3084 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3085 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3086 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3087 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3090 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3091 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3093 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3096 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3097 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3098 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3099 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3100 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3101 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3102 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3103 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3105 o Documentation (manpage):
3106 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3108 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3110 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3111 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3112 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3114 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3115 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3116 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3118 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3119 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3122 o Testing (continuous integration):
3123 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3126 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
3127 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
3128 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
3129 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
3130 bugs present in previous series.
3132 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3133 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3134 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3135 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3137 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3138 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3139 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3140 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3142 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3143 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3145 o Minor features (geoip):
3146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3147 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3150 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
3151 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
3152 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3153 Closes ticket 32500.
3156 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
3157 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3158 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
3159 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3161 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3162 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3163 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3164 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3166 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3167 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3168 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3169 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3171 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3172 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3173 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3174 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3175 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3176 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3177 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3178 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3180 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3181 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3182 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3183 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3184 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3186 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3187 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3188 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3189 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3190 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3193 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3194 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3195 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3196 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3198 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3200 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3202 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3203 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3204 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3206 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3207 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3208 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3209 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3210 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3211 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3213 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3214 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3215 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3216 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3218 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3219 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3220 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3221 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3222 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3223 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3224 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3225 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3226 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3227 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3230 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3231 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3232 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3233 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3234 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3235 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3236 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3237 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3238 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3240 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3241 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3242 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3243 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3245 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3246 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3247 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3248 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3249 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3252 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3253 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3254 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3256 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3257 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3258 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3260 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3261 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3262 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3264 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3265 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3266 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3267 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3269 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3270 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3271 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3272 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3273 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3275 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3276 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3277 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3279 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3280 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3281 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3284 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3285 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3286 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3288 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3289 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3290 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3291 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3293 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3294 Closes ticket 31859.
3295 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3296 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3298 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3299 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3300 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3301 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3302 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3303 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3304 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3305 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3306 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3307 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3309 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3310 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3311 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3312 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3313 Closes ticket 32500.
3316 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3317 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3318 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3319 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3320 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3322 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3323 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3324 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3325 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3327 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3328 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3331 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3332 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3333 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3334 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3335 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3336 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3337 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3338 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3339 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3340 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3341 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3343 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3344 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3345 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3346 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3347 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3348 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3350 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3351 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3352 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3353 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3354 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3357 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3358 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3359 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3360 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3361 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3363 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3364 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3365 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3366 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3369 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3370 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3371 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3372 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3373 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3374 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3375 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3376 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3378 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3379 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3380 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3381 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3382 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3384 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3385 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3386 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3387 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3388 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3391 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3392 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3393 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3395 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3396 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3397 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3400 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3401 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3402 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3404 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3405 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3406 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3407 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3409 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3410 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3411 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3412 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3413 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3415 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3416 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3417 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3419 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3420 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3421 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3424 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3425 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3426 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3428 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3429 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3430 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3432 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3433 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3434 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3436 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3437 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3438 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3441 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3442 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3443 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3444 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3445 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3446 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3448 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3449 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3450 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3451 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3452 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3454 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3455 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3456 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3459 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3460 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3461 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3464 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3465 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3466 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3469 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3470 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3471 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3473 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3474 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3475 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3476 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3478 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3479 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3480 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3481 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3483 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3484 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3485 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3486 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3487 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3488 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3489 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3491 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3492 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3493 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3494 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3496 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3497 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3498 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3499 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3501 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3502 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3503 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3506 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3507 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3508 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3509 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3510 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3511 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3512 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3514 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3515 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3516 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3517 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3520 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3521 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3522 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3523 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3524 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3526 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3527 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3528 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3529 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3530 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3532 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3533 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3534 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3537 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3538 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3539 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3540 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3541 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3543 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3544 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3545 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3546 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3548 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3549 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3550 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3551 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3552 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3555 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3556 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3557 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3560 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3561 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3562 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3563 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3565 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3566 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3567 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3568 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3570 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3571 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3572 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3573 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3575 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3576 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3577 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3578 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3581 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3582 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3583 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3584 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3585 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3586 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3589 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3590 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3591 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3593 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3594 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3595 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3597 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3598 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3599 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3600 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3602 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3603 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3604 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3606 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3607 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3608 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3609 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3610 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3612 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3613 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3614 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3617 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3618 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3619 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3620 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3621 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3622 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3623 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3624 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3625 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3626 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3628 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3629 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3630 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3631 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3633 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3634 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3635 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3636 Resolves issue 29702.
3638 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3639 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3641 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3642 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3643 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3644 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3647 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3648 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3649 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3650 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3652 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3653 Closes ticket 31859.
3654 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3655 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3657 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3658 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3659 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3660 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3661 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3662 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3663 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3664 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3665 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3666 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3668 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3669 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3670 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3671 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3672 Closes ticket 32500.
3674 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
3675 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
3676 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
3679 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3680 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3683 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3684 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3685 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3686 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3687 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3688 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3689 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3690 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3691 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3692 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3693 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3695 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3696 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3697 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3698 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3699 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3700 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3702 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3703 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3704 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3705 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3706 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3707 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3709 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3710 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3711 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3712 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3713 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3716 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3717 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3718 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3719 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3720 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3722 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3723 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3724 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3725 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3728 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3729 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3730 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3731 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3732 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3734 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3735 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3736 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3737 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3738 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3741 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3742 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3743 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3744 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3745 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3746 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3747 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3748 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3750 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3751 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3752 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3753 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3754 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3757 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3758 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3759 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3761 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3762 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3763 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3766 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3767 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3768 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3769 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3771 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3772 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3773 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3776 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3777 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3778 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3780 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3781 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3782 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3783 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3785 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3786 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3787 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3788 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3789 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3791 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3792 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3793 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3795 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3796 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3797 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3798 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3800 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3801 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3802 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3805 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3806 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3807 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3808 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3809 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3810 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3811 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3812 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3813 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3814 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3815 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3816 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3817 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3820 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3821 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3822 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3823 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3824 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3826 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3827 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3828 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3830 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3831 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3832 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3834 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3835 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3836 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3838 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3839 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3840 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3843 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3844 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3845 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3847 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3848 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3849 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3850 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3851 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3852 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3854 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3855 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3856 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3857 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3858 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3861 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3862 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3865 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3866 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3867 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3870 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3871 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3873 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3874 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3875 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3876 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3878 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3879 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3880 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3881 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3883 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3884 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3885 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3886 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3888 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3889 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3890 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3891 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3893 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3894 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3895 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3896 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3897 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3898 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3899 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3901 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3902 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3903 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3904 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3906 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3907 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3908 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3909 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3911 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3912 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3913 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3916 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3917 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3918 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3919 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3920 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3921 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3922 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3924 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3925 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3926 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3927 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3930 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3931 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3932 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3933 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3934 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3936 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3937 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3938 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3940 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3941 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3942 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3943 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3944 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3945 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3946 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3947 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3948 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3949 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3950 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3952 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3953 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3954 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3955 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3956 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3958 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3959 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3960 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3963 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3964 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3965 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3966 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3967 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3969 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3970 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3971 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3972 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3974 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3975 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3976 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3977 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3978 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3981 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3982 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3983 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3986 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3987 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3988 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3989 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3991 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3992 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3993 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3994 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3996 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3997 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3998 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4000 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4001 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4002 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4003 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4005 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4006 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4007 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4008 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4011 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4012 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4013 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4014 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4015 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4016 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4019 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4020 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4021 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4022 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4024 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4025 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4026 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4028 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4029 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4030 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4032 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4033 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4034 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4035 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4036 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4037 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4038 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4040 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4041 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4042 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4045 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4046 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4047 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4048 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4049 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4050 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4051 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4052 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4054 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4055 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4056 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4057 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4058 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4059 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4062 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4063 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4064 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4065 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4066 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4068 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4069 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4070 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4071 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4072 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4073 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4074 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4075 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4077 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4078 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4079 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4082 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4083 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4084 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4085 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4086 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4087 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4088 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4089 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4090 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4091 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4093 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4094 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4095 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4096 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4097 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4098 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4100 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4101 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4102 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4103 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4105 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4106 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4107 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4108 Resolves issue 29702.
4110 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4111 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4113 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4114 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4115 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4116 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4119 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4120 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4121 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4122 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4124 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4125 Closes ticket 31859.
4126 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4127 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4129 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4130 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4131 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4132 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4133 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4134 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4135 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4136 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4137 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4138 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4140 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4141 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4142 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4143 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4144 Closes ticket 32500.
4146 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
4147 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4148 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
4149 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
4151 o Minor features (build system):
4152 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4153 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4155 o Minor features (geoip):
4156 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4157 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
4159 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4160 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4161 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4162 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4163 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4164 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4166 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4167 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4168 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4170 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4171 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
4172 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4174 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4175 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4176 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4177 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4178 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4180 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
4181 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
4182 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
4183 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
4184 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4186 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4187 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
4188 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4189 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
4190 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4192 o Testing (continuous integration):
4193 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4194 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4195 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4196 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4197 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4198 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4199 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4200 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4201 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4204 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
4205 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
4206 from earlier versions of Tor.
4208 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4209 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4210 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4211 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4212 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4213 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4214 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4215 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4217 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4218 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4219 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4220 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4221 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4224 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4225 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4226 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4227 Closes ticket 29669.
4229 o Minor features (testing):
4230 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4231 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4232 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4233 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4235 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4236 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4237 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4238 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4240 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4241 Closes ticket 31859.
4242 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4243 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4245 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4246 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4247 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4248 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4250 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4251 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4252 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4253 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4254 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4256 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4257 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4258 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4259 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4261 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4262 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4263 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4265 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4266 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4267 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4268 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4269 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4272 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4273 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4274 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4276 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4277 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4278 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4280 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4281 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4282 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4284 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4285 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4286 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4287 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4290 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4291 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4294 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4295 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
4296 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4297 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
4298 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
4300 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4301 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4302 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4303 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4306 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4307 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4308 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4309 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4310 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4311 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4314 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
4315 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
4316 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
4317 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
4319 o Major features (directory authorities):
4320 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4321 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4322 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4324 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4325 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4326 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4327 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4329 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4330 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4331 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4332 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4333 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4335 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4336 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4337 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4338 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4339 Closes ticket 31779.
4341 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4342 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4343 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4344 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4346 o Minor features (geoip):
4347 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4348 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
4350 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4351 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4352 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4353 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4354 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4355 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4356 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4358 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4359 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4360 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4363 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4364 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4365 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4367 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4368 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
4369 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
4370 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4372 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4373 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4374 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4375 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4377 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4378 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4379 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4380 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4381 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4382 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4383 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4384 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4385 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4386 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4387 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4389 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4390 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4391 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4392 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4394 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4395 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4396 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4399 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4400 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4401 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4403 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4404 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4405 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4406 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4408 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4409 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4410 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4412 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4413 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4414 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4415 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4416 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4417 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4418 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4420 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4424 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4425 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4427 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4428 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4429 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4430 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4431 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4432 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4435 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
4436 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4437 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4438 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
4441 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4442 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4443 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4444 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4445 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4446 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4447 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4448 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4449 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4451 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4452 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4453 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4456 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4457 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4458 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4461 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4462 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4463 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4464 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4466 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4467 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4468 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4470 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4471 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4472 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4473 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4475 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4476 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4477 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4478 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4481 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4482 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4483 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4484 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4485 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4487 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4488 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4489 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4492 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4493 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4494 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4496 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4497 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4498 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4499 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4500 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4501 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4503 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4504 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4505 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4506 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4507 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4508 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4509 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4510 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4511 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4512 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4514 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4515 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4516 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4517 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4520 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
4521 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
4522 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
4523 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
4524 Tor's stability and ease of development.
4526 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4527 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4528 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4529 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4530 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4531 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4534 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4535 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4536 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4537 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4538 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4539 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4542 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4543 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4544 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4545 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4546 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4547 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4548 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4549 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4550 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4552 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4553 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4554 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4555 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4556 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4557 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4558 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4559 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4560 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4561 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4562 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4563 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4564 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4565 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4566 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4568 o Minor features (build system):
4569 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4570 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4571 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4573 o Minor features (compilation):
4574 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4575 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4576 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4578 o Minor features (configuration):
4579 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4580 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4581 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4582 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4584 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4585 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4586 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4587 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4589 o Minor features (debugging):
4590 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4591 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4592 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4593 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4595 o Minor features (git hooks):
4596 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4597 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4598 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4599 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4600 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4602 o Minor features (git scripts):
4603 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4604 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4605 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4606 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4607 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4608 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4609 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4610 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4611 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4612 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4613 Closes ticket 31314.
4614 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4615 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4616 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4617 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4618 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4619 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4620 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4621 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4622 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4624 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4625 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4626 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4629 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4630 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4631 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4633 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4634 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4635 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4637 o Minor features (onion service):
4638 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4639 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4640 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4641 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4643 o Minor features (stem tests):
4644 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4645 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4648 o Minor features (testing):
4649 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4650 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4651 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4652 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4653 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4654 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4655 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4656 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4657 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4658 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4659 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4661 o Minor features (token bucket):
4662 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4663 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4665 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4666 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4667 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4668 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4669 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4670 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4671 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4672 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4675 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4676 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4677 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4679 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4680 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4681 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4682 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4683 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4684 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4686 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4687 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4688 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4689 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4690 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4692 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4693 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4694 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4696 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4697 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4698 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4699 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4701 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4702 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4703 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4704 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4705 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4706 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4707 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4708 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4709 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4710 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4712 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4713 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4714 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4717 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4718 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4719 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4721 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4722 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4723 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4724 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4725 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4726 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4727 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4728 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4729 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4730 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4733 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4734 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4735 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4736 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4739 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4740 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4741 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4742 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4744 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4745 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4746 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4747 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4748 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4749 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4750 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4751 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4752 Closes ticket 31678.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4755 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4756 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4757 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4758 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4760 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4761 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4762 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4763 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4764 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4765 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4766 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4767 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4768 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4771 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4772 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4773 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4775 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4776 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4777 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4779 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4780 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4781 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4784 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4785 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4786 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4787 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4788 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4789 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4791 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4792 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4793 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4794 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4797 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4798 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4799 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4800 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4801 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4803 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4804 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4805 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4806 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4807 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4808 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4810 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4811 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4812 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4813 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4815 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4816 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4817 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4818 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4819 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4821 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4822 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4823 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4824 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4826 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4827 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4828 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4829 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4830 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4832 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4833 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4834 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4835 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4836 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4839 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4840 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4841 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4844 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4845 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4846 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4847 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4848 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4849 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4851 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4852 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4853 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4854 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4855 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4856 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4857 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4858 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4859 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4860 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4863 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4864 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4865 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4866 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4867 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4868 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4869 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4872 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4873 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4874 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4875 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4876 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4877 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4879 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4883 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4884 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4885 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4886 Closes ticket 30967.
4888 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4889 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4890 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4891 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4892 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4893 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4894 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4895 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4896 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4897 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4898 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4899 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4900 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4901 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4902 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4903 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4905 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4906 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4907 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4908 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4909 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4910 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4911 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4912 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4913 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4914 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4916 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4917 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4918 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4920 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4921 Closes ticket 30806.
4922 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4923 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4926 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4927 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4928 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4930 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4931 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4932 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4935 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
4936 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
4937 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
4938 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
4939 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
4940 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
4941 bugfixes on earlier versions.
4943 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
4944 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
4945 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4946 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4948 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4949 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4951 o Directory authority changes:
4952 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4955 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4956 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
4957 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
4958 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4960 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
4961 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
4962 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
4963 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
4964 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
4965 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
4966 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4968 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4969 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
4970 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
4971 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4973 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4974 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4975 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4976 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4977 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4980 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4981 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4982 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4983 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4984 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4987 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4988 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4992 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4993 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4995 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
4996 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
4997 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
5000 o Testing (continuous integration):
5001 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5002 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5003 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5007 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
5008 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
5009 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
5010 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
5012 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5013 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5014 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5015 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5016 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5017 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5019 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5020 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5021 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5023 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5024 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5025 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5026 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5027 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5030 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5031 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5033 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
5034 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
5035 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5037 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
5038 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5039 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5040 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5042 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5043 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
5044 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
5047 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5048 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5049 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5052 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5053 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
5054 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
5058 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
5059 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
5060 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
5062 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
5063 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5064 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5065 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5066 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5069 o Minor features (geoip):
5070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5071 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
5073 o Minor features (logging):
5074 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
5075 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
5076 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
5077 Closes ticket 30686.
5079 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
5080 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5081 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5084 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5085 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5086 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5087 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5088 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5089 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5091 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5092 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5093 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5094 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5096 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5097 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
5098 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
5099 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
5100 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5103 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
5104 Closes ticket 30630.
5107 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
5108 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
5109 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
5110 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
5111 SENDME implementation.
5113 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
5114 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5115 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5116 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5117 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5118 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5119 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5120 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5121 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5122 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5123 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5125 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
5126 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
5127 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
5128 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
5129 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
5130 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5132 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
5133 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
5134 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
5135 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
5136 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5139 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
5140 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
5141 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
5142 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
5143 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
5144 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
5147 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5148 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
5149 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
5152 o Minor features (maintenance):
5153 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
5154 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
5155 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
5157 o Minor features (testing):
5158 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
5159 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
5160 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
5161 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
5163 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
5164 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
5165 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
5167 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
5168 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5169 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5170 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5172 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5173 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
5174 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
5176 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
5177 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
5180 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5181 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
5182 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
5185 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5186 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5187 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5190 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
5191 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5192 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5193 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5195 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
5196 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5197 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5198 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5201 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5202 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5203 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5204 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5205 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5206 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5209 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
5210 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
5211 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
5212 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
5213 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
5214 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5216 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
5217 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
5218 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
5219 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
5222 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5223 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5224 Resolves issue 29702.
5227 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
5228 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
5229 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
5230 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
5231 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
5232 performance in several areas.
5234 o Major features (circuit padding):
5235 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5236 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5237 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5238 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
5239 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
5240 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
5241 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
5242 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
5243 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
5245 o Major features (code organization):
5246 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
5247 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
5248 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
5249 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
5252 o Major features (controller protocol):
5253 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
5254 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
5255 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
5256 Closes ticket 30091.
5258 o Major features (flow control):
5259 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
5260 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
5261 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
5262 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
5263 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
5264 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
5265 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
5267 o Major features (performance):
5268 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
5269 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
5270 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
5272 o Major features (performance, RNG):
5273 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
5274 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
5275 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
5276 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
5277 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
5278 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
5279 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
5280 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
5282 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5283 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5284 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5285 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5286 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5288 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5289 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5290 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5291 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5294 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5295 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
5297 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
5298 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
5299 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
5300 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
5301 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5302 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
5303 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
5305 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
5306 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5307 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5309 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5310 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5311 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5313 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5315 o Minor features (controller):
5316 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
5317 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
5318 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5320 o Minor features (debugging):
5321 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
5322 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
5323 can use format strings to include information for trouble
5324 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
5326 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5327 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
5328 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
5329 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
5330 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
5331 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
5332 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
5333 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
5334 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
5335 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
5337 o Minor features (developer tools):
5338 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
5339 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
5340 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
5341 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
5342 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
5344 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
5345 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
5347 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
5348 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
5350 o Minor features (geoip):
5351 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5352 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
5354 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
5355 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
5356 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
5358 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
5359 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
5360 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
5361 addresses. Implements 26992.
5363 o Minor features (modularity):
5364 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
5365 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
5367 o Minor features (performance):
5368 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
5369 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
5370 Closes ticket 28837.
5372 o Minor features (testing):
5373 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
5374 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
5375 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
5376 Implements ticket 29732.
5377 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
5378 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
5380 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
5381 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
5383 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
5384 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
5385 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
5386 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
5387 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5388 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
5391 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
5392 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
5393 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5395 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5396 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
5397 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5398 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
5399 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
5400 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
5401 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5402 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
5403 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
5404 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5405 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
5406 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5407 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5408 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
5409 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5410 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
5411 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
5412 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5414 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
5415 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5416 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5417 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5419 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5420 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
5421 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
5422 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
5423 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5425 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
5426 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
5427 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5428 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5430 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5431 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
5432 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5433 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
5434 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
5435 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
5437 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
5438 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5440 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5441 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5442 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5443 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5444 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5445 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
5446 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
5449 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5450 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5451 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5454 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5455 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5456 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5457 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5458 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
5459 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
5460 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
5461 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
5463 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
5464 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
5465 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5466 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
5467 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5468 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5469 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5471 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5472 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5473 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5474 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5475 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5476 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5478 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5479 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5480 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5481 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5482 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5484 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5485 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5486 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5488 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
5489 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
5490 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
5493 o Minor bugfixes (python):
5494 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
5495 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
5496 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5498 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5499 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
5500 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
5501 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
5502 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5504 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5505 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
5506 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
5507 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
5508 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5510 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5511 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
5512 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
5513 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5514 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
5515 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5516 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
5517 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5518 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
5519 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
5520 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
5521 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
5522 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5524 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5525 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
5526 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
5527 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
5528 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5530 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5531 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
5532 port. Implements ticket 30007.
5533 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
5534 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
5535 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
5536 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
5537 string to directory connection with or without compression.
5538 Resolves issue 28816.
5539 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
5540 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
5541 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
5542 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
5543 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
5544 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
5545 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
5546 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
5547 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
5548 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
5549 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
5550 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
5551 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
5552 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
5553 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
5554 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
5555 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5556 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
5557 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5558 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
5559 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
5560 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
5561 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
5562 Closes ticket 29894.
5563 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
5564 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
5565 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
5566 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
5569 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
5570 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
5574 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
5575 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
5576 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
5577 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
5580 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5581 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
5582 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
5583 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
5584 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
5585 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
5586 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
5587 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
5588 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
5589 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
5590 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
5593 o Testing (chutney):
5594 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
5595 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
5596 Closes ticket 27251.
5599 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
5600 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
5601 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
5602 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
5603 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
5604 long-term maintainability.
5606 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
5607 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
5608 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5609 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5611 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5612 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5614 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5615 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5616 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5617 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5619 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5620 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
5621 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
5624 o Minor features (testing):
5625 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
5626 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
5629 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5630 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5631 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5633 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5634 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
5635 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
5636 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5638 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5639 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
5640 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
5642 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
5643 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
5644 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5647 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
5648 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
5649 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
5650 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
5652 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
5653 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5654 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5655 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5656 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5657 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5659 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
5660 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5661 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5662 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5663 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5665 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
5666 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
5667 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
5670 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5671 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
5672 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
5673 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
5674 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
5677 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5678 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5679 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5682 o Minor features (dormant mode):
5683 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
5684 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
5685 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
5686 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
5687 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
5688 background. Closes ticket 29357.
5690 o Minor features (geoip):
5691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5692 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
5694 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
5695 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5696 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5697 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5699 o Minor bugfixes (security):
5700 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5701 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5702 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5703 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5704 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5705 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5706 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5707 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5709 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5710 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5711 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5712 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5714 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
5715 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5716 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5717 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5718 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5720 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5721 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5722 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5724 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
5725 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
5726 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
5729 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5730 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5731 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5734 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
5735 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
5736 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5738 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5739 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
5740 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5742 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5743 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
5744 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
5745 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
5746 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
5747 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
5750 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5751 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
5752 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
5753 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
5754 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5756 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5757 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5758 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5759 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5760 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5761 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5764 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
5765 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5766 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5767 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5768 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5769 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5770 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5771 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5773 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5774 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5775 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5776 Resolves issue 28816.
5777 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5778 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5781 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5782 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5785 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
5786 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
5787 bugs from earlier versions.
5789 o Minor features (address selection):
5790 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5791 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5792 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5793 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5794 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5795 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5796 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5798 o Minor features (geoip):
5799 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5800 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
5802 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
5803 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5804 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
5805 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5807 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5808 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5809 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5810 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5811 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5812 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5813 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5814 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5815 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5816 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5817 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5819 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5820 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5821 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5822 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
5825 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5826 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5828 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5829 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
5830 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
5833 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
5834 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
5835 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5837 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
5838 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5839 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5840 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5841 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5842 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5843 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5845 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5846 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5847 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5850 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5851 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5852 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5853 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5854 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5855 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5856 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5857 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5858 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
5859 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5861 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
5862 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5863 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5864 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5865 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5866 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5869 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5870 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5871 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5874 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5875 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5876 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5878 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5879 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5880 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5881 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5882 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5883 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5884 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5885 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5887 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5888 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5889 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5890 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5891 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5893 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5894 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5895 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5896 Patches from "Mangix".
5898 o Minor features (geoip):
5899 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5900 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5902 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5903 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5906 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5907 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5908 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5909 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5910 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5911 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5913 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5914 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5915 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5916 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5919 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5920 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5921 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5922 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5924 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5925 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5926 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5930 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5931 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5932 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5934 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5935 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5936 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5937 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5939 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5940 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5941 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5942 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5943 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5944 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5946 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5947 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5948 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5949 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5950 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5952 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5953 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5954 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5955 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5956 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5958 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5959 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5960 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5962 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5963 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5964 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5966 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5967 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5968 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5969 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5971 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5972 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5973 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5975 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5976 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5977 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5978 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5979 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5982 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5983 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5984 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5985 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5986 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5989 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5990 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5991 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5992 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
5993 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5995 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5996 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5997 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5998 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5999 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6000 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6001 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6002 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6004 o Minor features (geoip):
6005 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6006 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6008 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6009 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6010 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6011 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6013 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6014 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6015 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6016 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6017 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6020 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
6021 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6022 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6023 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6025 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
6026 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
6027 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
6028 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6030 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6031 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6032 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6033 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6034 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6035 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6036 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6037 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6039 o Minor features (geoip):
6040 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6041 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6043 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6044 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6045 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6046 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6049 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6050 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6051 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6052 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6055 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
6056 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
6057 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
6058 backward compatibility.
6060 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6061 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6062 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6064 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6065 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6066 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6067 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6068 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6069 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6070 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6071 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6073 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6074 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6075 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6076 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6077 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6079 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
6080 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
6081 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
6082 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
6083 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
6084 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
6085 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6087 o Minor features (compilation):
6088 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6089 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6090 Patches from "Mangix".
6092 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6093 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6094 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6095 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6096 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6097 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6098 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6101 o Minor features (directory authority):
6102 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6103 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6104 Closes ticket 26698.
6106 o Minor features (geoip):
6107 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6108 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6110 o Minor features (testing):
6111 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6114 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6115 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6116 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6117 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6119 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6120 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
6121 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6122 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6123 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6125 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6126 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6127 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6128 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6130 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
6131 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
6132 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
6134 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6135 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6136 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6137 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6138 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6139 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6140 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6142 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6143 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6144 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6145 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6146 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6148 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6149 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6150 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6152 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6153 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6154 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6156 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6157 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6158 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6159 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6161 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6162 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6163 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6164 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6165 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6168 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6169 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
6170 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6171 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
6172 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
6173 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
6174 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6175 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6176 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6177 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6178 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6182 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
6183 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
6184 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
6187 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
6190 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
6191 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
6192 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
6193 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
6194 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
6195 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
6198 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6199 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6200 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6201 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6202 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6203 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6205 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6206 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6208 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6209 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6212 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6213 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6214 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6215 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6216 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6217 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6218 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6219 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6220 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6223 o Major features (circuit padding):
6224 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6225 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6226 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6227 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6228 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6229 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6230 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6231 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6234 o Major features (refactoring):
6235 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6236 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6237 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6238 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6241 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6242 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6243 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6244 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6245 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6248 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6249 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6252 o Minor features (controller):
6253 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6254 Implements ticket 28843.
6256 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6257 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6258 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6259 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6261 o Minor features (directory authority):
6262 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6263 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6264 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6265 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6268 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6269 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6270 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6271 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6272 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6273 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6274 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6276 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6277 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6278 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6280 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6281 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6282 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6283 Closes ticket 28518.
6285 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6286 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6287 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6288 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6290 o Minor features (IPv6):
6291 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6292 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6293 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6294 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6295 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6296 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6297 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6298 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6299 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6300 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6302 o Minor features (log messages):
6303 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6304 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6307 o Minor features (memory usage):
6308 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6309 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6310 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6311 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6312 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6314 o Minor features (parsing):
6315 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6316 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6317 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6319 o Minor features (performance):
6320 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6321 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6322 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6323 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6325 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6326 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6327 Closes ticket 28852.
6328 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6329 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6330 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6331 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6332 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6333 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6335 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6336 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6337 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6338 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6339 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6341 o Minor features (process management):
6342 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6343 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6344 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6345 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6346 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6348 o Minor features (relay):
6349 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6350 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6351 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6353 o Minor features (required protocols):
6354 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6355 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6356 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6357 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6358 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6359 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6360 297; closes ticket 27735.
6362 o Minor features (testing):
6363 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6364 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6366 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6367 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6368 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6369 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6370 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6374 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6375 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6376 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6378 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6379 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6380 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6382 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6383 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6384 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6385 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6387 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6388 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6389 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6390 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6391 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6393 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6394 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6395 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6396 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6397 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6398 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6399 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6401 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6402 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6403 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6404 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6407 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6408 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6409 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6410 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6411 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6412 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6414 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6415 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6416 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6417 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6419 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6420 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6421 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6422 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6423 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6424 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6426 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6427 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6428 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6429 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6431 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6432 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6433 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6434 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6435 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6437 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
6438 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
6439 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
6440 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
6441 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6443 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6444 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6445 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6446 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6447 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6449 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6450 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
6451 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
6452 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
6454 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
6455 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
6456 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
6457 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
6458 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
6459 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
6460 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
6461 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
6465 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
6466 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
6467 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
6468 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
6470 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
6473 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
6474 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
6475 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
6476 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
6477 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
6478 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
6479 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
6482 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
6484 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
6485 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
6487 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
6488 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
6489 code from client and service into one function. Closes
6492 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6493 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
6495 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
6496 Resolves ticket 28006.
6497 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
6498 Resolves ticket 28012.
6499 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
6500 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
6501 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
6502 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
6506 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
6507 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6508 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
6509 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
6510 to this version, or to a later series.
6512 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
6513 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
6514 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
6515 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
6516 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
6517 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6519 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6520 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6521 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6522 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6523 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6526 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6527 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6528 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6529 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6531 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6532 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6533 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6534 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6535 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6536 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6537 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6538 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6540 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6541 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6542 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6543 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6545 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6546 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6547 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6548 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6549 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6551 o Minor features (geoip):
6552 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6553 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6555 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6556 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6557 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6558 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6559 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6560 Closes ticket 28973.
6562 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6563 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6564 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6565 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6567 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6568 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6569 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6572 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6573 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6574 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6576 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6577 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6578 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6579 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6581 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6582 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6583 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6584 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6586 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6587 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6588 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6589 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6590 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6591 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6594 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6595 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6596 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6599 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6600 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6601 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6602 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6603 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6605 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6606 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6607 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6608 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6609 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6611 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6612 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6613 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6614 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6615 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6616 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6618 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6619 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
6620 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
6623 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6624 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6625 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6628 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6629 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6631 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6632 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6633 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6636 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6637 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6638 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6639 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6640 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6641 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6642 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6643 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6645 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6646 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6647 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6648 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6650 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6651 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6652 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6653 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6654 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6655 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6656 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6657 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6658 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6659 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6661 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6662 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6663 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6664 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6665 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6666 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6668 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6669 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6670 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6671 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6672 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6674 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6675 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6676 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6679 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
6680 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6681 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
6682 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
6685 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
6686 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
6687 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
6690 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6691 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6692 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6693 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6694 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6697 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6698 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6699 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6700 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6701 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6702 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6703 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6705 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6706 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6707 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6710 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6711 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6712 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6713 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6714 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6717 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6718 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6719 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6720 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6721 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6723 o Minor features (geoip):
6724 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6725 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6727 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6728 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6729 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6730 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6731 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6732 Closes ticket 28973.
6734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6735 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6736 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6737 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6739 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6740 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6741 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6742 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6743 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6746 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6747 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6748 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6749 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6751 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6752 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6753 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6755 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6756 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6757 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6758 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6760 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6761 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6762 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6763 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6764 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6765 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6768 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6769 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6770 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6772 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6773 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6774 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6775 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6776 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6778 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6779 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6780 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6781 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6782 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6783 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6786 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6787 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6788 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6790 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6791 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6792 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6795 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
6796 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6797 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
6798 affecting directory caches.
6800 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
6801 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
6802 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
6803 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
6804 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
6805 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
6806 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
6807 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
6809 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
6810 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
6811 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
6812 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
6813 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
6814 so it will recognize them.
6816 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
6817 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
6818 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
6819 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
6820 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
6821 with the latest stable release.)
6823 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
6824 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6826 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
6827 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6828 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6829 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6830 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6831 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6832 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6834 o Minor features (compilation):
6835 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
6836 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
6838 o Minor features (geoip):
6839 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6840 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6842 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
6843 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6844 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6845 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6846 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6847 Closes ticket 28973.
6849 o Minor features (performance):
6850 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
6851 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
6852 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
6853 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
6854 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
6855 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
6856 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
6857 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
6858 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
6859 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
6861 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6862 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
6863 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6865 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6866 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
6867 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
6868 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
6869 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6871 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6872 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
6873 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
6874 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6875 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6876 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6877 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6879 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
6880 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
6881 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
6883 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6884 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6885 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6889 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
6890 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
6891 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
6892 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
6894 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
6895 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6896 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6899 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6900 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6901 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6902 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6903 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6905 o Minor features (geoip):
6906 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6907 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
6909 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6910 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
6911 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6913 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6914 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6915 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6916 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6918 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6919 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6920 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6921 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6922 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6923 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6925 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
6926 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
6927 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
6930 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6931 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
6932 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
6933 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6934 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
6935 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6936 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6938 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6939 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6940 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6941 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6942 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6943 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6944 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6945 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6947 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6948 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6949 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6950 reported by Keifer Bly.
6953 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6954 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6956 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6957 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6958 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6959 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6960 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6961 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6962 Closes ticket 19566.
6964 o Documentation (onion services):
6965 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6966 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6967 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6968 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6969 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6970 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6973 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
6974 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
6975 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
6978 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
6979 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6980 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6981 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6982 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6985 o Minor features (geoip):
6986 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6987 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6989 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6990 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6991 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6992 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6994 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
6995 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6996 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6997 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6998 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7001 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7002 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7003 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7004 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7006 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7007 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7008 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7010 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7011 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
7012 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7014 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7015 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
7016 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
7019 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7020 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
7021 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
7024 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7025 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7026 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7028 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7029 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7030 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
7031 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7032 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7033 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7034 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
7035 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
7036 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
7037 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7040 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
7041 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
7042 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
7043 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
7044 acceptable long-term-support release.
7046 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7047 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7048 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7049 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7050 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7051 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7053 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7054 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7055 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7056 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7057 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7059 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7060 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7062 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7063 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7065 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
7066 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7067 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7069 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
7070 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7071 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7074 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7075 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
7076 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7078 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
7079 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
7080 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
7083 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7084 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7085 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7088 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
7089 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7090 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
7091 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7093 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7094 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
7095 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
7096 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
7099 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
7100 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
7101 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
7102 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7104 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7105 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
7106 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
7107 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
7108 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
7109 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
7110 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7112 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7113 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
7114 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
7117 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
7118 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
7121 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
7122 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
7123 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
7124 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
7125 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7127 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
7128 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7129 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7130 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7131 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7132 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7134 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
7135 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7136 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7137 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7138 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7140 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7141 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
7142 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7144 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
7145 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7146 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7147 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7148 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7150 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
7151 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
7152 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
7155 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
7156 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7157 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
7158 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
7159 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
7161 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7162 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7163 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7165 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7166 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7167 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7168 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7169 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7171 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7172 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7173 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7174 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7175 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7178 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7179 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7180 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7181 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7183 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7184 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7185 Implements ticket 27252.
7186 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7187 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7188 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7189 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7190 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7191 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7192 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7194 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7195 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7196 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7197 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7199 o Minor features (geoip):
7200 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7201 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7203 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7204 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7205 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7206 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7207 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7209 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7210 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7211 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7212 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7213 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7216 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7217 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7218 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7221 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7222 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7223 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7224 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7225 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7227 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7228 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7229 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7231 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7232 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7233 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7235 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7236 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7237 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7238 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7240 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7241 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7242 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7244 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7245 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7246 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7249 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7250 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7251 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7253 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7254 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7255 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7258 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7259 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7260 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7261 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7262 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7264 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7265 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7266 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7267 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7268 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7269 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7271 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7272 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7273 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7276 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7277 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7278 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7279 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7280 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7281 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7282 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7283 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7285 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7286 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7287 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7288 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7290 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7291 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7292 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7293 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7294 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7296 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7297 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7298 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7299 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7300 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7301 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7303 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7304 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7305 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7306 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7307 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7308 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7310 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7311 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7312 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7313 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7316 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7317 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7318 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7319 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7320 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7323 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
7324 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
7325 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
7326 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
7327 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
7328 getting closer and closer to stability.
7330 o Major features (onion services):
7331 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7332 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7333 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7334 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7335 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7337 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7338 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7339 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7341 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
7342 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
7343 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
7344 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7346 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
7347 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7348 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7349 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7350 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7352 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7353 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7354 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7355 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7356 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7359 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7360 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7361 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7362 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7363 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7364 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7367 o Minor features (geoip):
7368 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7369 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7372 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7373 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7377 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
7378 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
7379 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
7380 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
7381 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
7384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
7385 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
7388 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
7389 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7390 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7391 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7392 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7394 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
7395 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7396 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7397 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7398 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7399 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7402 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7403 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
7404 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7406 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7407 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
7408 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
7410 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
7411 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
7412 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7414 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7415 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
7416 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
7418 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7419 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7420 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7421 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7422 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7423 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7424 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7425 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7426 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7428 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
7429 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7430 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7433 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7434 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7435 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7436 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7438 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
7439 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7441 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7442 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
7443 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
7444 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
7445 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
7446 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
7447 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
7448 Closes ticket 27814.
7449 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
7450 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
7451 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
7452 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
7453 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
7454 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
7457 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
7458 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
7459 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
7460 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
7463 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
7464 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
7465 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
7466 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
7468 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7469 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7470 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7471 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7472 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7473 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7475 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
7476 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
7477 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
7478 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
7479 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
7482 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7483 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7484 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7485 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7486 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7488 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7489 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7490 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7491 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7492 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7495 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7496 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7497 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7498 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7499 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7501 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7502 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
7503 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
7504 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
7506 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
7507 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
7508 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
7511 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7512 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7513 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7514 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7516 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7517 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
7518 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
7519 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7521 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7522 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
7523 Closes ticket 27799.
7526 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
7527 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
7528 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
7529 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
7530 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
7532 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7533 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7534 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7535 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7536 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7537 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7539 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7540 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7541 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7542 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7543 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7544 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7545 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7546 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7548 o Major features (bootstrap):
7549 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7550 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7551 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7552 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7554 o Major features (new code layout):
7555 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7556 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7557 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7558 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7559 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7560 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7561 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7563 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7564 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7565 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7567 o Major features (onion services v3):
7568 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7569 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7570 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7571 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7572 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7573 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7574 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7575 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7576 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7577 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7578 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7579 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7580 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7582 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7583 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7584 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7585 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7586 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7587 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7588 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7590 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7591 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7592 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7593 (if present), and restart Tor.
7595 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7596 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7597 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7598 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7601 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7602 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7603 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7604 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7606 o Minor features (admin tools):
7607 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7608 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7611 o Minor features (build):
7612 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7613 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7614 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7615 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7617 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7618 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7619 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7620 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7621 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7623 o Minor features (code layout):
7624 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7625 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7626 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7627 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7630 o Minor features (compilation):
7631 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7632 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7633 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7634 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7637 o Minor features (config):
7638 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7641 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7642 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7643 Implements ticket 27252.
7644 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7645 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7646 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7647 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7648 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7649 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7650 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7651 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7652 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7654 o Minor features (controller):
7655 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7656 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7657 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7658 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7659 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7660 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7661 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7662 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7664 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7665 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7666 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7667 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7669 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7670 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7671 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7672 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7674 o Minor features (development):
7675 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7676 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7678 o Minor features (directory authority):
7679 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7680 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7681 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7682 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7684 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7685 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7688 o Minor features (embedding API):
7689 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7690 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7691 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7692 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7693 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7694 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7697 o Minor features (geoip):
7698 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7699 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
7701 o Minor features (memory management):
7702 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7703 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7706 o Minor features (memory usage):
7707 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7708 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7709 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7711 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7712 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7713 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7715 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7716 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7717 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7718 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7720 o Minor features (testing):
7721 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7722 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7724 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7725 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7726 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7728 o Minor features (UI):
7729 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7730 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7731 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7732 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7733 Closes ticket 26703.
7735 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7736 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7737 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7738 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7740 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7741 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7742 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7743 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7744 - Use time_t for all values in
7745 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7746 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7747 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7749 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7750 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7751 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7752 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7753 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7756 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
7757 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7758 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7759 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7760 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7761 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7763 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7764 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7765 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7766 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7768 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7769 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7770 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7771 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7772 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7774 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7775 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7776 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7778 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7779 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
7780 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
7781 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
7782 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
7785 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
7786 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7787 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7789 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7790 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7791 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7794 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7795 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
7796 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
7797 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
7798 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7800 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7801 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
7802 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
7803 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
7804 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7805 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
7806 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7808 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
7809 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
7810 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
7811 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
7812 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7814 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
7815 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7816 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7818 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
7819 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
7820 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
7821 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
7824 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7825 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7826 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7829 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
7830 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
7831 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
7832 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
7833 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
7835 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
7836 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
7837 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
7838 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
7840 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7841 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7842 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7843 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7845 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
7846 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
7847 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
7848 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
7849 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
7850 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7851 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7852 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
7853 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
7854 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7856 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
7857 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7858 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7859 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7860 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7861 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7862 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7863 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7865 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7866 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
7867 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7868 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7869 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7870 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7871 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7872 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7873 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
7874 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
7875 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7876 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
7877 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7879 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7880 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
7881 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
7882 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
7883 directory within the top-level src directory.
7884 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
7885 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
7886 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
7887 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
7888 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
7889 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
7890 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
7891 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
7892 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
7893 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
7894 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
7895 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
7896 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
7897 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
7898 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
7899 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
7900 Closes ticket 21349.
7901 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
7902 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
7903 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
7904 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
7905 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
7906 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
7907 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
7909 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
7910 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
7911 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
7914 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
7915 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
7916 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
7917 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
7918 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
7921 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
7922 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
7923 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
7924 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
7925 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
7926 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
7927 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
7928 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
7929 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
7930 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
7931 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
7932 Closes ticket 26367.
7935 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
7936 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
7938 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7939 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7940 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7941 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7943 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7944 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7946 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7947 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7948 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7949 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7951 o Minor features (geoip):
7952 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7953 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7955 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7956 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7957 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7958 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7960 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7961 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7962 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7963 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7964 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7965 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7966 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7967 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7970 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7971 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7972 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7973 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7975 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7976 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7977 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7978 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7980 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7981 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7982 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7983 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7985 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7986 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7987 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7988 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7989 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7991 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7992 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7993 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7996 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7997 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7998 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7999 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8000 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8003 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8004 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8007 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8008 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8009 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8010 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8012 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8013 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8014 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8016 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8017 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8018 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8021 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8022 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8023 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8024 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8025 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8027 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8028 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8029 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8032 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8033 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8035 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8036 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8037 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8038 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8040 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8041 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8043 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8044 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8045 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8046 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8048 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8049 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8052 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8053 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8054 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8055 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8057 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8058 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8059 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8060 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8062 o Minor features (geoip):
8063 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8064 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8066 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8067 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8068 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8069 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8070 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8071 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8072 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8074 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8075 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8076 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8077 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8078 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8079 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8080 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8081 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8085 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8086 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8087 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8089 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8090 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8091 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8092 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8094 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8095 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8096 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8097 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8098 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8100 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8101 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8102 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8103 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8104 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8106 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8107 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8108 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8111 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8112 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8113 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8114 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8115 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8117 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8118 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8119 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8122 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8123 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8124 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8127 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8128 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8129 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8132 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8133 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8135 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8136 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8137 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8138 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8140 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8141 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8142 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8143 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8145 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8146 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8147 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8149 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8150 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8151 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8152 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8153 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8154 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8155 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8158 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8159 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8160 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8161 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8162 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8164 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8165 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8166 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8167 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8168 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8170 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8171 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8172 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8175 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8176 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8178 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8179 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8180 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8181 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8183 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8184 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8185 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8186 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8188 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8189 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8190 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8192 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8193 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8194 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8195 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8197 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8198 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8201 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8202 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8203 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8204 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8206 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8207 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8208 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8209 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8211 o Minor features (geoip):
8212 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8213 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8216 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8217 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8218 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8219 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8220 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8221 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8224 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8225 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8226 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8227 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8228 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8229 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8230 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8233 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8234 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8235 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8236 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8238 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8239 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8240 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8241 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8243 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8244 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8245 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8246 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8247 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8249 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8250 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8251 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8252 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8253 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8255 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8256 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8257 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8260 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8261 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8262 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8263 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8265 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8266 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8267 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8268 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8269 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8271 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8272 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8273 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8276 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8277 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8278 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8281 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8282 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8283 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8286 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8287 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8288 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8289 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8291 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8292 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8293 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8296 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8297 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8299 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8300 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8301 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8302 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8303 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8304 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8305 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8307 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8308 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8309 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8310 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8311 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8313 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8314 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8315 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8316 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8319 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8320 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8322 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8323 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8324 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8325 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8326 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8327 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8328 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8331 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8332 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8333 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8334 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8335 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8337 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8338 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8339 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8340 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8341 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8343 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8344 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8345 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8348 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8349 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8350 compilation and portability fixes.
8352 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8353 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8354 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8355 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8356 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8357 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8358 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8359 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8361 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
8362 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8364 o Minor features (compatibility):
8365 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8366 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8367 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8369 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8370 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8371 Implements ticket 27449.
8372 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8373 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8377 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8378 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8379 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8380 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8381 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8382 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8383 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8386 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8387 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
8388 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
8389 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
8390 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
8391 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8392 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8393 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8394 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8395 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8397 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8398 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8399 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8402 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
8403 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8404 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8405 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8406 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8407 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8408 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8411 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
8412 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8413 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8414 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8415 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8417 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8418 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8419 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8420 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8422 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8423 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8424 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8426 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8427 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8428 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
8429 Implements ticket 27275.
8430 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8431 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8433 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
8434 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8437 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8438 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8439 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8440 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8442 o Minor features (geoip):
8443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8444 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8446 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
8447 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8448 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8449 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8451 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8452 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
8453 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
8454 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
8455 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8456 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8457 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8458 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8460 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
8461 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8462 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8463 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8465 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8466 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8467 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8468 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8469 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8471 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8472 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8473 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8476 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8477 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8478 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8481 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8482 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8484 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8485 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8486 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8487 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8488 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8489 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8490 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8492 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8493 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8494 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8495 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8496 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8498 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
8499 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
8500 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
8501 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
8502 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8504 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8505 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8506 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8507 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8508 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8510 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
8511 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8512 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8515 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
8516 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8517 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8518 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8519 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8521 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
8522 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
8523 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
8524 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
8525 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
8526 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8528 o Minor features (compilation):
8529 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8530 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8532 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8533 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8534 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8535 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8536 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8537 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8539 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8540 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8541 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8542 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8544 o Minor features (controller):
8545 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8546 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8547 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8549 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8550 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8551 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8554 o Minor features (geoip):
8555 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8556 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8558 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8559 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8561 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8562 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
8563 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8564 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8565 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8566 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8567 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8569 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8570 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
8571 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8572 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
8573 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
8574 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8576 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8577 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8578 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8581 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
8582 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8583 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8585 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8586 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8587 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8590 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8591 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
8592 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8593 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8594 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8595 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8597 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8598 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
8599 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
8600 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8602 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8603 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8604 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8606 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
8607 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
8608 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
8609 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
8610 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
8611 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
8613 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8614 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8615 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8616 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8617 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8620 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
8621 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8622 bridge relays should upgrade.
8624 o Directory authority changes:
8625 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8626 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8627 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8630 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
8631 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8632 bridge relays should upgrade.
8634 o Directory authority changes:
8635 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8636 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8637 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8640 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
8641 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8642 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8645 o Directory authority changes:
8646 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8647 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8648 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8650 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8651 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8652 Closes ticket 26343.
8654 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8655 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8656 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8657 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8658 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8660 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8661 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8662 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8664 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8665 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8666 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8667 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8669 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8670 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8671 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8673 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8674 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8675 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8676 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8677 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8678 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8680 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8681 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8682 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8683 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8685 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8686 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8687 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8690 o Minor features (geoip):
8691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8692 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8694 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8695 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8696 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8697 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8698 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8700 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8701 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8702 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8704 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8705 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8706 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8707 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8708 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8709 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8710 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8711 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8714 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8715 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8716 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8717 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8718 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8719 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8721 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8722 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8723 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8724 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8725 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8727 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8728 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8729 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8730 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8731 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8733 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8734 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8735 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8738 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8739 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8740 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8742 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8743 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8744 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8745 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8747 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8748 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8749 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8750 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8751 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8752 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8753 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8755 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8756 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8757 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8758 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8761 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8762 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8763 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8766 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8767 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8769 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8770 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8771 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8772 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8776 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8777 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8778 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8780 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8781 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8782 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8784 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8785 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8786 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8789 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
8790 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8791 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8794 o Directory authority changes:
8795 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8796 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8797 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8799 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8800 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8801 Closes ticket 26343.
8803 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8804 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8805 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8806 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8807 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8809 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8810 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8811 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8812 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8814 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8815 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8816 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8817 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8818 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8819 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8821 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8822 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8823 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8826 o Minor features (geoip):
8827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8828 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8830 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8831 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8832 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8833 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8834 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8836 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8837 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8838 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8840 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8841 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8842 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8843 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8846 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8847 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8848 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8849 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8850 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8851 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8854 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8855 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8856 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8857 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8859 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8860 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8861 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8864 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8865 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8866 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8868 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8869 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8870 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8871 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8873 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8874 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8875 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8877 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8878 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8879 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8882 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
8883 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
8884 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
8885 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
8886 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
8888 o Minor features (compilation):
8889 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8890 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8893 o Minor features (geoip):
8894 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8895 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8897 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8898 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8901 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8902 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8903 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8904 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8906 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8907 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
8908 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8909 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8910 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8911 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8913 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8914 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8915 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8918 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
8919 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8920 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8922 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
8923 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8924 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8925 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8926 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8927 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8928 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8929 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8933 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
8934 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8935 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
8937 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8938 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8939 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8940 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8942 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8943 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8944 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8947 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8948 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8949 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8952 o Minor features (geoip):
8953 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8954 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8956 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8957 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8958 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8959 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8961 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8962 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
8963 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
8964 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
8965 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
8968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8969 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8970 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8971 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8972 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8974 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8975 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8976 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8977 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8979 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8980 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8981 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8983 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8984 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8985 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8986 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8989 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8990 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8991 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8992 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8994 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8995 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8996 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8997 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8998 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8999 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9000 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9001 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9005 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
9006 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
9007 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
9009 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9010 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9011 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9012 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9014 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
9015 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9016 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9019 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
9020 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9021 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9022 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9024 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
9025 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9026 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9027 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9029 o Minor features (unit tests):
9030 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9031 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9032 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9035 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9036 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9037 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9038 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9039 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
9040 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
9041 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9042 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9043 Closes ticket 26245.
9045 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9046 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9047 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9048 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9049 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9050 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9052 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9053 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9054 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9055 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9058 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9059 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
9060 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9061 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
9062 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
9063 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
9064 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
9065 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
9066 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9067 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
9068 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
9069 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
9070 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
9071 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9074 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9075 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9076 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9078 o Directory authority changes:
9079 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9080 Closes ticket 26343.
9082 o Minor features (geoip):
9083 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9084 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9086 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9087 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9088 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9089 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9090 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9091 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9093 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9094 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9095 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9097 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9098 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9099 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9100 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9101 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9103 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9104 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9105 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9107 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9108 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9109 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9110 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9111 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9112 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9115 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
9116 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
9117 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
9119 o Directory authority changes:
9120 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9121 Closes ticket 26343.
9123 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
9124 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9125 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9126 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9127 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9129 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9130 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9131 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9132 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9134 o Minor features (geoip):
9135 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9136 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9138 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
9139 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9140 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9141 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9142 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9143 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9145 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9146 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9147 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9148 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
9149 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9150 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9151 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9152 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9154 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9155 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
9156 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
9157 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
9160 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9161 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9162 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9163 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9164 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9166 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
9167 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9168 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9170 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9171 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
9172 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9174 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9175 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9176 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9177 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9181 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9182 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9183 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9185 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9186 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9187 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9188 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9189 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9190 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9192 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
9193 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9195 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9196 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9197 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9198 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9199 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9201 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9202 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9203 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9204 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9205 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9207 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9208 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9209 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9210 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9212 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9213 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
9214 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
9215 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9217 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9218 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9219 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9221 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9222 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9223 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9226 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9227 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9228 Closes ticket 26006.
9230 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9231 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9232 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9233 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9234 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9235 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9237 o Minor features (geoip):
9238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9239 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9241 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9242 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9243 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9246 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9247 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9248 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9249 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9250 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9252 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9253 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9254 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9255 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9256 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9259 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9260 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9261 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9263 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9264 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9265 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9266 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9267 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9268 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9269 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9271 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9272 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9273 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9275 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9276 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9277 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9280 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
9281 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
9282 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
9283 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
9284 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
9285 other small features and bugfixes.
9287 o New system requirements:
9288 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9289 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9290 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9291 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9293 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
9294 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9295 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9296 To disable the module, the configure option
9297 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9298 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9300 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9301 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9302 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9303 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9304 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9305 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9306 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9307 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9308 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9309 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9310 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
9312 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9313 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9314 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9315 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9316 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9317 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9318 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9319 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9320 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9321 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9322 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9323 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9324 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9325 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9326 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9327 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9328 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9329 Tor's uptime (26009).
9331 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
9332 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9333 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9334 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9335 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9337 o Major bugfixes (crash):
9338 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9339 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9340 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9342 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9343 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
9344 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
9345 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9347 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
9348 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9349 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9351 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
9352 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
9353 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
9354 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
9355 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
9356 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
9357 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
9358 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
9359 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
9360 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
9361 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
9362 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
9363 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
9364 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9366 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
9367 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9368 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9371 o Minor features (accounting):
9372 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9373 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9374 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9375 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9377 o Minor features (code quality):
9378 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9379 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9380 Closes ticket 25024.
9382 o Minor features (compatibility):
9383 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9384 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9385 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9386 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9387 Closes ticket 26006.
9389 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9390 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9391 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9392 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9393 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9394 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9396 o Minor features (configuration):
9397 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9398 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9399 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9400 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9401 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9403 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9404 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9405 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9406 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9407 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9408 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9410 o Minor features (control port):
9411 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9412 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9413 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9414 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9415 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9416 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9417 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9418 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9419 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9420 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9422 o Minor features (directory authority):
9423 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9424 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9425 Closes ticket 23909.
9427 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9428 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9429 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9430 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9432 o Minor features (entry guards):
9433 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9434 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9436 o Minor features (geoip):
9437 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9438 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9440 o Minor features (performance):
9441 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9442 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9443 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9444 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9446 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9447 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9449 o Minor features (testing):
9450 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9451 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9453 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9454 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9455 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9456 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9457 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9458 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9460 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9461 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9462 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9463 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9464 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9466 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9467 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9468 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9469 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9470 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9471 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9474 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9475 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9476 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9478 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
9479 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9480 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9481 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9482 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9485 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9486 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9487 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9490 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9491 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9492 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9493 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9494 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9496 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
9497 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9498 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9499 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9500 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9502 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9503 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9504 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9505 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9506 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9508 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
9509 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
9510 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
9511 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
9512 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9514 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9515 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9516 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9517 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9518 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9519 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9522 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9523 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9524 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9525 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9526 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9529 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9530 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9531 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9532 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9533 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9534 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9535 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9537 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9538 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9539 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9541 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
9542 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9543 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9544 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9545 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9546 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9547 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9549 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9550 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9551 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9552 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9553 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9554 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9556 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9557 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9558 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9561 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9562 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9563 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9564 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9566 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9567 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9568 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9569 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9570 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9571 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9572 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9574 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
9575 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9576 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9578 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
9579 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9580 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9581 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9584 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9585 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9586 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9587 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9588 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9589 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9590 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9592 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9593 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9594 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9595 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9596 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9597 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9598 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9600 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9601 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9602 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9603 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9604 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9606 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9607 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9608 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9611 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9612 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9613 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9614 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9615 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9616 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9618 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9619 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9620 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9621 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9622 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9623 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9624 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9625 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9627 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9628 confusing we renamed some functions and
9629 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9630 router_should_check_reachability() and
9631 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9632 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9633 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9634 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9635 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9637 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9638 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9640 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9641 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9642 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9643 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9644 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9645 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9646 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9647 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9648 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9649 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9650 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9651 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9652 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9653 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9654 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9655 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9656 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9657 Closes ticket 25766.
9658 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9659 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9660 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9661 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9662 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9663 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9664 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9665 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9666 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9667 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9668 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9669 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9670 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9671 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9673 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9674 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9675 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9676 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9677 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9678 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9679 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9680 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9681 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9683 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9684 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9685 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9686 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9688 o Deprecated features:
9689 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9690 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9691 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9692 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9693 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9694 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9697 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9698 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9701 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9702 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9703 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9704 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9705 24378 and proposal 290.
9706 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9707 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9708 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9709 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9710 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9711 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9712 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9713 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9714 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9715 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9716 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9717 their local router. Closes 25409.
9718 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9719 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9720 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9721 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9722 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9723 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9724 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9725 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9726 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9727 Closes ticket 25268.
9730 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
9731 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
9732 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
9734 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
9735 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
9736 be nearly identical to this one.
9738 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
9739 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
9740 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
9741 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
9742 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
9743 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9745 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9746 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9747 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9748 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9749 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9750 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9751 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9753 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
9754 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9755 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9757 o Minor features (config options):
9758 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9759 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9760 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9763 o Minor features (geoip):
9764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9765 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
9767 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9768 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
9769 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
9770 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
9771 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
9772 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9774 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9775 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
9776 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
9777 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9779 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
9780 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
9781 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
9782 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9783 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
9784 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
9785 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9787 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9788 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9789 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9790 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9791 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9792 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
9793 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9795 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
9796 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
9797 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
9798 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
9799 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
9801 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9802 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
9803 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
9805 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
9806 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
9807 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
9809 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9810 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9811 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9813 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
9814 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
9815 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
9819 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
9820 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
9821 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
9822 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
9824 o New system requirements:
9825 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9826 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9828 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
9829 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9830 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9831 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9832 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9834 o Minor features (geoip):
9835 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9836 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
9838 o Minor features (log messages):
9839 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
9840 information about memory usage from the different compression
9841 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
9843 o Minor features (sandbox):
9844 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9845 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9846 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9848 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9849 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9850 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9851 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9853 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
9854 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
9855 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9857 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9858 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9859 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9860 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9862 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
9863 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
9864 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
9865 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9867 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9868 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9869 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9870 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9872 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9873 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
9874 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
9876 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9877 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
9878 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
9879 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
9880 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
9881 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9883 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9884 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9885 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9886 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9888 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
9889 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
9890 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
9891 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
9893 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
9894 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
9895 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
9896 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
9899 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
9900 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
9901 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
9902 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
9903 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9905 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9906 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
9907 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
9911 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9913 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9914 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9917 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
9918 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
9921 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9922 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9924 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9925 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9927 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9930 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9931 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
9932 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9934 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
9935 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
9936 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
9937 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
9940 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9941 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9942 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9943 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9946 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9947 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9948 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9949 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9950 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9951 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9952 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9953 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9954 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9955 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9956 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9957 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9958 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9960 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9961 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9962 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9964 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9965 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9966 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9967 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9968 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9969 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9970 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9972 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9973 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9974 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9976 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9977 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9978 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9979 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9980 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9981 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9982 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9984 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9985 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9986 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9987 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9989 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9990 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9991 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9992 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9994 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9995 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9996 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9997 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9998 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9999 Closes ticket 24978.
10001 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10002 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10003 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10004 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10005 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10006 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10007 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10008 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10009 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10011 o Minor features (geoip):
10012 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10015 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10016 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10017 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10018 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10019 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10021 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10022 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10023 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10024 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10025 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10027 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10028 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10029 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10030 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10031 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10034 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10035 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10036 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10037 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10038 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10039 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10040 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10041 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10042 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10043 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10044 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10047 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10048 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10049 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10051 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10052 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10053 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10056 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10057 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10058 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10059 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10060 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10061 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10062 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10064 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10065 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10066 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10067 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10068 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10069 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10070 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10071 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10072 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10075 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10076 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10077 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10078 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10079 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10080 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10082 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10083 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10084 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10085 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10087 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10088 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10089 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10090 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10091 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10094 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10095 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10096 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10097 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10098 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10099 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10101 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10102 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10103 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10104 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10105 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10106 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10107 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10108 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10109 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10110 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10111 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10112 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10114 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10115 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10116 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10117 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10119 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10120 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10121 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10122 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10124 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10125 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10126 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10127 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10130 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10131 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10132 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10133 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10134 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10136 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10137 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10139 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10140 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10142 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10143 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10144 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10147 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10148 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10149 later Tor releases.
10151 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10152 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10154 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10155 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10157 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10160 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10161 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10162 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10164 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10165 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10166 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10167 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10170 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10171 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10172 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10173 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10174 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10175 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10176 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10177 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10178 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10179 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10180 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10181 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10182 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10184 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10185 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10186 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10187 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10188 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10189 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10190 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10191 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10192 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10194 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10195 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10196 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10197 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10198 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10199 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10200 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10202 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10203 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10204 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10205 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10207 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10208 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10209 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10210 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10211 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10212 Closes ticket 24978.
10214 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10215 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10216 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10217 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10219 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10220 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10221 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10222 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10223 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10224 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10225 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10226 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10227 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10229 o Minor features (geoip):
10230 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10233 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10234 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10235 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10237 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10238 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10239 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10240 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10241 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10243 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10244 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10245 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10246 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10247 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10249 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10250 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10251 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10252 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10253 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10256 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10257 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10258 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10260 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10261 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10262 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10265 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10266 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10267 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10268 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10269 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10270 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10271 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10273 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10274 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10275 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10276 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10277 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10280 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10281 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10282 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10283 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10284 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10285 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10287 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10288 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10289 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10290 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10292 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10293 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10294 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10295 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10296 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10297 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10298 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10299 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10300 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10301 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10302 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10303 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10305 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10306 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10307 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10308 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10311 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10312 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10313 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10314 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10315 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10317 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10318 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10320 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10321 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10324 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10325 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10326 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10329 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10330 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10332 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10333 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10334 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10335 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10336 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10337 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10340 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10341 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10343 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10346 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10347 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10348 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10349 the DoS mitigations.)
10351 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10352 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10353 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10354 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10357 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10358 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10359 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10360 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10362 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10363 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10364 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10365 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10366 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10367 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10368 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10369 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10370 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10371 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10372 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10373 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10374 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10376 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10377 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10378 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10379 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10380 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10381 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10382 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10383 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10384 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10385 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10386 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10388 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10389 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10390 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10392 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10393 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10394 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10395 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10396 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10397 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10398 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10400 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10401 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10402 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10403 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10405 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10406 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10407 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10408 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10410 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10411 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10412 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10413 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10414 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10415 Closes ticket 24978.
10417 o Minor features (geoip):
10418 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10421 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10422 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10423 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10426 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10427 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10428 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10429 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10430 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10432 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10433 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10434 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10435 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10436 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10437 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10438 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10440 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10441 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10442 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10443 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10444 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10446 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10447 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10448 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10449 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10451 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10452 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10453 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10454 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10455 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10457 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10458 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10459 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10460 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10462 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10463 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10464 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10465 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10467 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10468 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10469 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10470 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10472 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10473 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10475 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10476 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10478 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10479 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10480 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10482 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10483 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10484 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10485 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10486 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10488 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10489 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10490 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10492 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
10493 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10494 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10498 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
10499 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
10500 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10501 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10503 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
10504 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
10505 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
10506 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
10507 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
10508 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10510 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10513 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
10514 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10515 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10516 the DoS mitigations.)
10518 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
10519 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10520 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10521 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10524 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10525 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10526 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10527 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10528 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10529 Closes ticket 24978.
10531 o Minor features (logging):
10532 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10533 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10535 o Minor features (testing):
10536 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10539 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
10540 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10541 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10542 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10543 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10544 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10545 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10547 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
10548 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
10549 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
10550 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10551 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
10552 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
10555 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10556 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10557 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
10558 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
10560 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10561 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10562 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10563 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10564 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10567 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
10568 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10570 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10571 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10573 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
10574 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
10575 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10576 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
10578 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10579 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10580 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10583 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
10584 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
10585 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
10586 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
10587 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
10588 it to older supported release series.
10590 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10591 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10592 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10593 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10594 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10595 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10596 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10597 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10598 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10599 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10600 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10601 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10602 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10604 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10605 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10606 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10607 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10608 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10609 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10610 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10611 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10613 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
10614 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10615 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10617 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
10618 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10619 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10620 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10622 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10623 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10624 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10625 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10627 o Minor features (directory authority):
10628 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10629 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10631 o Minor features (geoip):
10632 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10635 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
10636 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10637 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
10640 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10641 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10642 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10643 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10644 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10646 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10647 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10648 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10649 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10650 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10652 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
10653 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10654 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10655 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10657 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10658 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10659 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10660 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10661 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10663 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10664 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10665 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10666 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10668 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10669 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10670 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10671 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10672 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10673 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10674 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10676 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10677 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10678 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10679 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10680 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10681 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10682 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10683 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10685 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10686 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10687 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10688 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10689 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10690 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10691 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10693 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10694 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10695 would call the Rust implementation of
10696 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10697 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10698 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10699 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10700 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10702 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
10703 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10704 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
10707 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10708 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10709 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10710 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10711 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10712 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10714 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10715 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10716 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10717 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10718 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10720 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10721 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10723 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10724 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10725 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10728 o Documentation (man page):
10729 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10730 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10734 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
10735 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
10736 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
10737 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
10738 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
10739 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
10742 o Major features (embedding):
10743 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10744 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10745 Closes ticket 23684.
10746 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10747 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10748 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10749 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10750 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10751 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10753 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10754 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10755 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10756 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
10757 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10758 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
10759 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
10760 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
10761 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
10762 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10763 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10766 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10767 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10768 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10769 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10770 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10771 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10772 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10774 o Major features (onion services):
10775 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10776 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10777 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10778 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10779 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10782 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10783 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10784 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10785 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10786 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10787 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10788 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10789 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10791 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10792 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10793 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10794 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10795 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10797 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
10798 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10799 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10800 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10801 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10802 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10803 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10805 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10806 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10807 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10808 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10809 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10810 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10811 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10812 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10813 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10814 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10815 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10817 o Major bugfixes (relays):
10818 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10819 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10820 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10821 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10822 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10823 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10825 o Minor feature (IPv6):
10826 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10827 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10828 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10829 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10830 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
10831 Implements ticket 23827.
10833 o Minor features (cleanup):
10834 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10835 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10837 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10838 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10839 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10840 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10841 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10842 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10843 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10844 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10845 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10846 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10848 o Minor features (embedding):
10849 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10850 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10851 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10852 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10853 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10854 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10855 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10856 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10857 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10858 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
10859 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10860 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10861 Closes ticket 23848.
10862 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10863 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10864 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10866 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10867 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10868 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10869 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10870 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10871 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10872 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10873 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10876 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10877 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10878 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10879 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10880 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10881 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10882 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10884 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10885 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10886 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10887 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10888 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10889 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10890 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10891 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10892 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10893 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10894 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10895 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10897 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10898 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10899 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10901 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10902 Implements ticket 24791.
10904 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10905 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10906 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10907 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10908 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10909 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10911 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10912 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10913 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10916 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10917 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10918 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10919 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10920 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10922 o Minor features (log messages):
10923 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10924 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10925 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10926 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10928 o Minor features (logging, android):
10929 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10932 o Minor features (performance):
10933 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10934 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10935 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10936 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10938 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10939 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10940 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10941 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10942 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10943 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10944 Implements ticket 24374.
10946 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10947 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10948 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10949 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10950 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10952 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10953 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10954 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10955 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10958 o Major features (relay):
10959 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10960 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10961 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10962 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10963 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10965 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10966 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10967 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10968 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10969 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10970 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10971 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10972 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10973 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10975 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
10976 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10977 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10978 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10980 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10981 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10982 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10983 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10984 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10985 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10986 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10987 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10988 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10989 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10990 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10991 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10994 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10995 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10996 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10997 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11000 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11001 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11002 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11005 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11006 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11007 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11009 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11010 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11011 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11012 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11013 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11015 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11016 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11017 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11018 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11020 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11021 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11022 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11023 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11024 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11025 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11027 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11028 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11029 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11030 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11032 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11033 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11034 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11035 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11036 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11037 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11040 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11041 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11042 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11043 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11045 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
11046 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11047 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11048 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11050 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11051 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11052 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11053 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11054 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11055 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11056 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11057 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11058 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11059 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11060 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11061 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11063 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11064 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11065 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11066 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11067 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11069 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11070 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11072 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11073 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11074 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11075 "aruna1234" and teor.
11076 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11077 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11078 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11079 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11081 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11082 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11083 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11084 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11085 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11086 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11087 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11088 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11089 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11090 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11092 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11093 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11096 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11097 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11099 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11100 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11101 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11102 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11103 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11104 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11107 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11108 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11109 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11110 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11111 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11113 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11114 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11115 adding very little except for unit test.
11117 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11118 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11119 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11120 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11122 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11123 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11124 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11127 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11128 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11130 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11131 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11132 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11133 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11134 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11135 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11137 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11138 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11139 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11140 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11141 with the 0.2.9 series.
11143 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
11144 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11146 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11147 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11148 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11149 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11150 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11151 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11152 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11153 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11154 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11156 o Minor features (geoip):
11157 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11160 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11161 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11162 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11163 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11164 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11167 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11168 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
11169 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11171 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11172 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11173 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11174 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11178 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
11179 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
11180 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
11181 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
11182 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
11183 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
11184 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
11186 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
11187 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
11188 will be nearly identical to this.
11190 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
11191 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
11192 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
11193 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
11194 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
11195 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
11196 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11198 o Minor features (geoip):
11199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11202 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
11203 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
11204 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
11205 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11207 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11208 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11209 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11210 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11211 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11214 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11215 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
11216 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
11217 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
11218 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
11219 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11222 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
11223 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
11224 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
11226 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
11227 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
11228 be nearly identical to this.
11230 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11231 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11232 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11233 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11234 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11235 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11236 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11238 o Minor features (logging):
11239 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11242 o Minor features (portability):
11243 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11244 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11247 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11248 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11249 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11250 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11251 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11252 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11253 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11254 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11255 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11256 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11257 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11258 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11259 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11262 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11263 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11265 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11266 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11267 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11268 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11269 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11270 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11271 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11274 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11275 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
11276 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
11277 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
11278 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
11279 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
11280 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11282 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11283 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
11284 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
11285 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11286 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
11287 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
11288 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
11289 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11290 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
11291 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
11292 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11295 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
11296 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
11297 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
11298 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
11301 o Major bugfixes (security):
11302 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11303 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11304 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11305 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11306 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11307 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11308 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11309 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11310 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11311 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11313 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11314 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11315 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11316 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11317 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11318 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11319 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11322 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11323 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11324 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11325 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11326 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11328 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11329 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11330 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11331 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11332 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11333 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11334 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11335 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11336 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11338 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11339 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11340 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11341 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11343 o Minor features (directory authority):
11344 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11347 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11348 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11349 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11350 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11353 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11354 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11355 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11356 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11358 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11359 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11360 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11361 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11362 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11363 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11364 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11365 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11366 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11367 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11368 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11370 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11371 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11372 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11373 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11374 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11375 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11376 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11379 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11380 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11381 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11382 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11383 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11385 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11386 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11387 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11388 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11389 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11390 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11391 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11392 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11393 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11395 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11396 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11397 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11398 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11399 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11400 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11403 o Minor features (bridge):
11404 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11405 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11406 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11407 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11410 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11411 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11414 o Minor features (geoip):
11415 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11418 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11419 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11420 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11421 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11422 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11424 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11425 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11426 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11428 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11429 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11430 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11431 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11432 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11433 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11435 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11436 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11437 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11440 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11441 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11442 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11443 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11444 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11447 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11448 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11449 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11450 to another of the releases coming out today.
11452 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11453 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11454 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11456 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11457 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11458 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11459 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11460 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11461 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11462 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11463 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11464 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11465 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11466 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11468 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11469 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11470 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11471 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11472 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11473 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11474 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11477 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11478 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11479 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11480 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11481 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11483 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11484 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11485 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11486 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11487 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11488 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11489 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11490 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11491 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11493 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11494 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11495 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11496 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11497 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11498 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11501 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11502 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11503 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11504 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11505 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11506 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11508 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11509 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11510 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11511 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11512 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11515 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11516 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11519 o Minor features (geoip):
11520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11523 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11524 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11525 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11526 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11527 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11529 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11530 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11531 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11533 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11534 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11535 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11536 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11537 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11538 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11541 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11542 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11543 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11544 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11546 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11547 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11548 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11551 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11552 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11553 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11554 to another of the releases coming out today.
11556 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11557 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11558 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11559 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11560 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11561 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11564 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11565 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11566 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11567 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11568 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11569 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11570 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11571 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11572 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11573 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11574 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11576 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11577 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11578 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11579 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11580 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11581 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11582 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11585 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11586 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11587 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11588 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11589 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11591 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11592 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11593 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11594 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11595 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11596 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11598 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11599 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11600 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11601 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11602 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11605 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11606 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11609 o Minor features (geoip):
11610 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11613 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11614 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11615 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11616 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11617 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11618 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11620 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11621 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11622 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11623 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11624 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11626 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11627 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11628 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11630 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11631 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11632 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11633 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11634 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11635 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11637 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11638 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11639 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11640 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11641 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11643 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11644 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11645 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11648 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
11649 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11650 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11651 to another of the releases coming out today.
11653 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11654 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
11655 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11657 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11658 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11659 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11660 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11661 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11662 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11663 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11664 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11665 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11666 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11667 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11668 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11669 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11670 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11671 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11674 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11675 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11676 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11677 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11678 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11680 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11681 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
11682 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
11683 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
11684 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
11687 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11688 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11689 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11690 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11691 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11694 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11695 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11698 o Minor features (geoip):
11699 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11702 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11703 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11704 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11707 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
11708 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11709 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11710 to another of the releases coming out today.
11712 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11713 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11714 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11716 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11717 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11718 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11719 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11720 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11721 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11722 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11723 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11724 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11725 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11726 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11727 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11728 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11729 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11730 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11733 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11734 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11735 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11736 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11737 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11738 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11740 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11741 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11742 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11743 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11744 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11747 o Minor features (geoip):
11748 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11752 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
11753 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
11754 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
11755 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
11756 since the 0.3.0.x series.
11758 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
11759 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
11762 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11763 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11764 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11765 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11766 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11767 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11768 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11769 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11770 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11771 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11772 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11775 o Minor features (directory authority):
11776 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11777 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11778 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11779 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11781 o Minor features (geoip):
11782 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11785 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11786 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11787 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11789 o Minor features (logging):
11790 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11791 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11793 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11794 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11796 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11797 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11798 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11799 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11800 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11801 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
11802 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
11803 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
11805 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11806 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11807 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11810 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11811 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11812 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11813 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11815 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11816 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11817 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11818 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11819 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11820 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11821 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11822 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11823 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11826 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11827 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
11828 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11829 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11830 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11831 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11832 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11834 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11835 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11836 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11837 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11838 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11839 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11841 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11842 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11843 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11844 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11845 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11846 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11847 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11849 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
11850 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
11851 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11853 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11854 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
11855 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
11856 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11857 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11858 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11859 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11860 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11863 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11864 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11865 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11868 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
11869 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
11870 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
11871 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
11874 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11875 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11876 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11877 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11878 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11879 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11882 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
11883 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
11884 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
11885 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
11886 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11888 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
11889 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
11890 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
11891 Closes ticket 23753.
11893 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
11894 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11895 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11896 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11897 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11899 o Minor features (testing):
11900 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11901 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11903 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11904 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11905 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11906 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11907 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11909 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
11910 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
11911 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
11912 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
11913 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
11916 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11917 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
11918 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
11919 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
11920 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11922 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
11923 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
11924 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
11925 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11927 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11928 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
11929 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
11931 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
11932 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11933 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
11935 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11936 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
11937 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
11938 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11939 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
11940 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11942 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11943 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11944 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11945 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11946 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11947 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11948 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11949 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11950 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11951 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11952 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11953 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11955 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
11956 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11957 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11958 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11959 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11961 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11962 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11963 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11964 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11965 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11966 Closes ticket 24109.
11969 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
11970 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
11971 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
11972 directory authority, Bastet.
11974 o Directory authority changes:
11975 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11976 Closes ticket 23910.
11977 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11978 Closes ticket 23592.
11980 o Minor features (bridge):
11981 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11982 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11983 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11984 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11985 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11986 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11987 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11989 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
11990 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11991 Resolves ticket 23670.
11993 o Minor features (geoip):
11994 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11997 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11998 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11999 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12000 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12002 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12003 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12004 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12006 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12007 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12008 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12009 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12010 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12011 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12013 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
12014 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12015 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12016 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
12017 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
12018 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12020 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12021 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
12022 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
12023 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
12025 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
12026 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
12027 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12029 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
12030 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
12031 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12032 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12033 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12035 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12036 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12037 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12039 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12040 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
12041 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
12044 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12045 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
12046 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12047 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12048 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12049 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
12050 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
12051 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
12053 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
12054 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
12055 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12056 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
12057 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
12060 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
12061 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
12062 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
12063 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
12064 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
12068 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12069 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12070 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12072 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12073 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12074 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12076 o Directory authority changes:
12077 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12078 Closes ticket 23910.
12079 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12080 Closes ticket 23592.
12082 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12083 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12084 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12085 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12086 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12088 o Minor features (geoip):
12089 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12092 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12093 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12094 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12095 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12096 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12097 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12098 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12099 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12100 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12102 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12103 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12104 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12105 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12106 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12107 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12108 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12109 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12110 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12113 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12114 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12115 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12116 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12118 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12119 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12120 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12122 o Directory authority changes:
12123 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12124 Closes ticket 23910.
12125 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12126 Closes ticket 23592.
12128 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12129 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12130 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12131 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12133 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12134 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12135 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12136 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12137 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12139 o Minor features (geoip):
12140 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12144 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12145 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12146 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12147 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12149 o Directory authority changes:
12150 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12151 Closes ticket 23910.
12152 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12153 Closes ticket 23592.
12155 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12156 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12157 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12158 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12160 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12161 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12162 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12163 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12164 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12166 o Minor features (geoip):
12167 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12170 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12171 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12172 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12173 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12174 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12175 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12176 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12177 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12180 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12181 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12182 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12184 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12185 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12186 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12187 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12188 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12189 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12190 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12193 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12194 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12195 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12196 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12198 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12199 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12200 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12202 o Directory authority changes:
12203 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12204 Closes ticket 23910.
12205 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12206 Closes ticket 23592.
12208 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12209 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12210 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12211 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12213 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12214 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12215 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12216 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12217 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12219 o Minor features (geoip):
12220 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12223 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12224 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12225 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12226 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12227 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12228 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12229 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12230 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12233 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12234 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12235 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12236 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12238 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12239 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12240 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12242 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12243 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12244 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12245 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12246 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12247 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12248 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12251 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12252 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12253 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12254 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12255 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12257 o Directory authority changes:
12258 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12259 Closes ticket 23910.
12260 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12261 Closes ticket 23592.
12263 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12264 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12265 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12266 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12268 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12269 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12270 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12271 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12272 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12274 o Minor features (geoip):
12275 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12278 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12279 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12280 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12281 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12283 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12284 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12285 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12288 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12289 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12290 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12292 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12293 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12294 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12295 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12297 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12298 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12299 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12301 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12302 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12303 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12307 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
12308 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
12309 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
12310 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
12311 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
12312 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
12314 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
12315 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
12316 include better testing and logging.
12318 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
12321 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12322 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12323 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12324 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12326 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
12327 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
12328 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
12329 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
12330 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
12331 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
12332 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12334 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12335 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12336 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12337 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12338 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12339 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12340 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12341 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12342 Closes ticket 23643.
12344 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12345 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12346 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12347 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12348 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12350 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
12351 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12352 the circuit identifier(s).
12353 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12354 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12356 o Minor features (logging):
12357 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12358 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12359 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12360 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12361 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12363 o Minor features (relay):
12364 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12365 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12366 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12367 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12369 o Minor features (robustness):
12370 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12371 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12373 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
12374 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12375 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12376 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12377 related to ticket 23080.
12379 o Minor features (testing):
12380 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12381 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12384 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12385 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12386 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12388 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
12389 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
12392 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12393 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12394 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12395 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12396 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12397 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12398 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12399 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12400 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12402 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12403 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12404 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12407 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12408 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12409 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12410 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12412 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
12413 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
12414 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
12415 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
12416 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12417 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
12418 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
12419 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
12422 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
12423 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12424 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12425 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12427 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12428 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12429 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12430 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12431 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12432 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12434 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
12435 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
12436 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
12437 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12438 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
12439 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
12440 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12441 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
12442 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12443 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
12444 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
12446 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
12447 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
12448 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
12449 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12450 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
12451 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12453 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12454 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12455 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12457 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12458 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12460 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
12461 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
12462 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12464 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12465 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12466 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12469 o Deprecated features:
12470 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12471 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12472 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12475 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
12476 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12477 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12478 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12479 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12480 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12481 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12482 Closes ticket 18736.
12485 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
12486 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
12487 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
12488 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
12489 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
12490 features and bugfixes here.
12492 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
12494 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
12495 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
12496 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
12497 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
12498 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
12499 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
12500 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
12501 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
12502 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
12503 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
12504 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
12505 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
12507 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
12508 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
12509 more information, see the design paper at
12510 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
12511 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
12512 Closes ticket 12541.
12514 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
12515 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
12516 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
12517 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
12518 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
12519 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
12522 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
12523 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
12525 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
12528 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
12531 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
12533 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
12535 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
12537 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
12538 they are 56 characters long, as in
12539 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
12541 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
12542 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
12543 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
12544 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
12545 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
12548 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
12549 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
12550 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
12551 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
12552 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
12553 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
12556 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12557 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12558 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12559 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12561 o Minor features (bug detection):
12562 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12563 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12564 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12566 o Minor features (client):
12567 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12568 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12569 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12570 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12571 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12572 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12573 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12574 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12575 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12576 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12578 o Minor features (command line):
12579 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12580 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12581 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12583 o Minor features (control port):
12584 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12585 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12586 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12588 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12589 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12591 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12592 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12593 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12594 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12595 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12596 Closes ticket 23237.
12597 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12598 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12600 o Minor features (development support):
12601 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12602 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12603 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12604 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12605 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12606 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12608 o Minor features (ed25519):
12609 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12610 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12611 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12613 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12614 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12615 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12617 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12618 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12619 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12620 another program, regardless of the settings of
12621 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12622 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12623 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12625 o Minor features (logging):
12626 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12627 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12628 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12630 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12631 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12633 o Minor features (portability):
12634 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12635 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12636 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12637 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12639 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12640 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12641 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12642 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12643 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12645 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12646 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12647 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12650 o Minor features (static analysis):
12651 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12652 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12655 o Minor features (testing):
12656 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12657 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12658 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12659 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
12660 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12662 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12663 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12664 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12665 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12667 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12668 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12669 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12670 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12671 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12672 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12673 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12674 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12676 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12677 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12678 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12679 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12680 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12681 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12682 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12683 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12685 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12686 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12687 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12689 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12690 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12691 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12692 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12694 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12695 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12696 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12697 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12698 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12699 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12701 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12702 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12705 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12706 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12707 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12708 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12710 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12711 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12712 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12713 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12714 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12715 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12716 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12719 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12720 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12721 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12722 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12724 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
12725 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12726 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12728 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12729 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12730 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12731 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12732 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12733 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12735 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12736 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12737 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12739 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12740 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12741 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12743 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12744 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12745 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12746 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12748 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12749 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12750 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12752 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12753 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12754 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12755 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12756 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12757 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12758 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12759 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12761 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12762 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12763 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12764 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12765 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12766 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12767 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12769 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12770 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12771 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12772 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12774 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12775 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12776 function from the general code to handle channel state
12777 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12778 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12779 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12780 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12781 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12782 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12783 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12784 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12786 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12787 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12789 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12790 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12791 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12792 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12793 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12794 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12795 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12796 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12797 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12798 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12799 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12800 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12802 o Deprecated features:
12803 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12804 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12805 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12809 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12810 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12811 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12812 Closes ticket 15645.
12813 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12814 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12815 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12816 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12818 o Removed features:
12819 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12820 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12821 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12822 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12823 Closes ticket 21031.
12824 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12825 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12828 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12829 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12832 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12833 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12834 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12835 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12837 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12838 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12839 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12840 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12842 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12843 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12844 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12845 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12846 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12852 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12853 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12854 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12857 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12858 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12859 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12860 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12861 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12862 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12863 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12864 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12865 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12867 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12868 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12869 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12870 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12871 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12872 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12873 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12874 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12875 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12878 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12879 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12882 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12883 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12884 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12885 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12887 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12888 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12889 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12890 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12891 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12892 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12893 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12895 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12896 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12897 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12898 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12900 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12901 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12902 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12904 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12905 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12906 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12907 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12909 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12910 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12911 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12912 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12913 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12915 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12916 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12917 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12918 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12920 o Minor features (geoip):
12921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12924 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12925 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12926 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12927 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12930 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12931 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12932 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12933 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12934 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12935 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12936 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12938 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12939 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12940 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12943 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12944 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12947 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12948 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12949 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12950 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12951 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12953 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12954 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12955 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12956 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12957 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12958 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12960 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12961 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12962 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12963 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12964 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12965 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12966 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12967 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12968 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12970 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12971 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12972 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12973 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12975 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12976 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12977 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12979 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12980 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12981 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12982 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12983 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12985 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12986 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12987 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12990 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12991 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12992 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12993 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12994 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12996 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12997 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12998 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12999 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13000 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13001 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13002 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13003 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13004 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13007 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13008 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13011 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13012 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13013 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13014 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13016 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13017 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13018 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13019 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13022 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13025 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13026 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13027 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13029 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13030 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13031 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13032 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13033 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13035 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13036 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13037 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13038 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13040 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13041 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13042 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13044 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13045 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13046 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13047 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13050 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13051 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13053 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13054 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13055 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13056 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13057 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13058 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13059 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13061 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13062 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13063 disabled. For more information, see
13064 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13066 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13067 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13068 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13069 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13070 with the 0.2.9 series.
13072 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
13073 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13075 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13076 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13077 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13078 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
13079 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13081 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13082 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13083 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13084 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13087 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13088 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13089 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13090 attempt for bug 23105.
13092 o Minor features (geoip):
13093 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13096 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13097 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13098 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13100 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13101 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13102 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13103 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13104 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13106 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13107 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13108 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13109 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13111 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13112 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
13113 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
13117 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
13118 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
13119 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
13120 Windows directory caches.
13122 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
13123 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
13124 will be nearly identical to it.
13126 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
13127 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
13128 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
13129 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
13130 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
13131 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13133 o Minor features (directory authority):
13134 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13135 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13136 Closes ticket 22348.
13138 o Minor features (geoip):
13139 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13142 o Minor features (testing):
13143 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13146 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
13147 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
13148 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13150 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13151 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13152 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13153 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13154 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13155 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13156 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13157 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13158 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
13159 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13161 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13162 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13163 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13165 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13166 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13167 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13168 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13170 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13171 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
13172 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
13173 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
13174 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13176 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13177 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13178 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13179 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13180 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13181 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13183 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
13184 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
13185 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13186 with the clang static analyzer.
13188 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13189 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13190 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13191 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
13192 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
13195 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13196 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13197 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13198 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13199 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13200 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13201 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13204 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13205 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13206 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13207 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13209 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13210 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13211 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13212 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13213 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13214 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13215 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13216 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13217 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13219 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13220 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13221 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13222 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13224 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13225 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13226 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13227 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13228 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13230 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13231 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13234 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13235 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13236 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13237 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13239 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13240 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13241 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13242 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13243 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13244 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13245 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13246 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13249 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13250 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13251 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13254 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13255 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13256 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13257 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13258 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13259 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13261 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13262 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13263 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13264 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13266 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13267 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13268 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13270 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13271 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13272 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13275 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
13276 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
13277 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
13278 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
13279 next version will be a release candidate.
13281 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
13282 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
13283 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
13284 one of those versions should upgrade.
13286 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13287 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13288 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13289 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13290 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13291 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13292 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13293 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13294 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13296 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13297 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13298 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13299 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13300 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13302 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
13303 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
13304 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
13305 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
13306 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
13307 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13309 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13310 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13311 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13313 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13314 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13315 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13316 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13317 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13320 o Minor features (geoip):
13321 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13324 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13325 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13326 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13327 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13328 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13329 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13332 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
13333 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
13334 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
13335 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
13336 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
13338 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
13339 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
13340 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
13341 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
13342 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13344 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13345 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13346 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13347 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13348 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13349 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
13350 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
13351 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13352 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13353 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13354 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13357 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13358 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13359 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13360 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13361 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13362 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13364 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13365 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13366 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13367 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13368 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13369 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13370 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13371 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13374 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13375 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13376 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13379 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13380 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13381 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13382 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13384 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13385 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13386 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13388 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13389 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13390 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13391 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13393 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13394 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
13395 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
13396 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
13397 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13398 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13399 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13402 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
13403 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13404 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13405 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13406 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
13409 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
13410 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
13413 o New dependencies:
13414 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13415 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
13416 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
13417 close ticket 22623.)
13419 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13420 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13421 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13422 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13423 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13424 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13426 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
13427 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
13428 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
13429 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13431 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
13432 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
13433 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
13434 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
13435 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13437 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13438 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13439 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13440 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13442 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
13443 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13444 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13445 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13447 o Minor features (geoip):
13448 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13451 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13452 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
13453 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
13455 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
13456 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13457 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
13458 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
13459 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
13460 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
13462 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
13463 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
13465 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13466 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13467 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13468 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13469 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13471 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13472 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13473 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13474 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13475 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13476 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13477 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13478 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13479 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13480 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13481 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13482 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13484 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13485 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13486 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13487 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13488 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13489 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
13490 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
13491 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
13492 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13494 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13495 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13496 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13497 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13498 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13499 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13500 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13501 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13502 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13503 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13504 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13505 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
13506 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
13507 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
13508 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
13509 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13511 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13512 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13513 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13514 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13515 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13516 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13517 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13521 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13523 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13524 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13526 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13527 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13528 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13532 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13533 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13534 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13535 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13536 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13539 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13542 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13543 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13544 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13545 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13546 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13547 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13549 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13550 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13551 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13552 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13554 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13555 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13556 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13557 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13559 o Minor features (geoip):
13560 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13563 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13564 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13565 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13566 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13567 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13569 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13570 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13571 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13572 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13573 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13575 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13576 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13577 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13578 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13579 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13580 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13581 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13582 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13583 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13586 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
13587 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13588 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13589 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13590 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13592 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13593 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13594 bugfixes described below.
13596 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13597 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13598 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13599 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13600 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13601 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13602 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13605 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13606 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13607 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13608 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13609 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13610 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13611 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13614 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13615 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13616 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13617 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13618 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13619 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13620 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13621 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13622 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13623 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13624 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13625 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13626 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13629 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
13630 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
13631 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
13633 o Minor features (code style):
13634 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13635 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13636 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13638 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13639 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13640 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13641 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13642 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13644 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13645 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13646 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13648 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
13649 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
13650 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13652 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13653 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13654 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13655 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13656 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13657 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13658 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13660 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
13661 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
13662 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
13663 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
13664 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13666 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13667 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13668 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13672 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13675 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13676 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13677 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13678 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13679 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13681 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13682 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13683 bugfixes described below.
13685 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13686 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13687 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13688 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13689 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13690 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13691 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13692 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13695 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13696 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13697 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13698 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13699 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13700 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13701 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13704 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13705 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13706 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13707 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13708 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13709 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13710 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13711 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13712 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13713 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13714 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13715 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13716 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13719 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13720 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13721 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13724 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13725 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13726 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13727 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13728 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13730 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13731 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13732 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13734 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13735 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13736 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13738 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13739 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13740 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13741 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13742 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13743 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13744 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13746 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13748 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13749 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13750 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13753 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13754 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13755 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13756 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13757 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13758 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13760 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13761 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13762 bugfixes described below.
13764 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13765 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13766 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13767 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13768 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13771 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13772 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13773 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13774 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13775 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13776 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13777 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13780 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13781 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13782 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13783 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13784 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13786 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13787 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13788 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13789 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13790 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13791 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13792 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13794 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13795 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13796 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13797 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13798 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13800 o Minor features (geoip):
13801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13804 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13805 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13806 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13807 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13809 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13810 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13811 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13813 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13814 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13815 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13816 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13817 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13820 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13821 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13822 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13823 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13824 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13826 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13827 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13828 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13829 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13830 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13831 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13833 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13834 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13835 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13836 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13839 o Minor features (geoip):
13840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13843 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13844 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13845 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13846 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13847 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13849 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13850 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13851 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13853 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13854 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13855 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13856 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13857 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13858 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13860 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13861 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13862 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13863 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13866 o Minor features (geoip):
13867 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13870 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13871 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13872 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13875 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13876 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13877 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13878 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13879 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13880 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13882 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13883 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13884 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13885 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13888 o Minor features (geoip):
13889 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13892 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13893 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13894 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13896 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13897 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13898 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13899 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13900 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13901 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13903 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13904 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13905 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13906 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13909 o Minor features (geoip):
13910 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13913 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13914 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13915 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13917 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13918 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13919 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13920 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13921 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13922 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13924 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13925 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13926 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13927 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13930 o Minor features (geoip):
13931 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13934 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13935 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13936 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13939 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
13940 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
13941 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
13942 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
13944 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
13945 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
13946 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
13947 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
13948 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13950 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13951 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13952 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13955 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
13956 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13957 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13958 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13961 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
13962 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
13963 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
13964 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
13965 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
13968 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
13969 security, correctness, and performance.
13971 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
13973 o Major features (directory protocol):
13974 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13975 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13976 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13977 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13978 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13979 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13980 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13981 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13982 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13983 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13984 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13985 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13986 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13987 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13988 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13989 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13990 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13992 o Major features (experimental):
13993 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13994 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13995 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13996 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13997 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13998 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13999 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
14001 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
14002 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
14003 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
14004 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
14005 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
14006 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
14009 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
14010 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
14011 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
14012 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
14013 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
14014 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
14015 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
14016 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
14017 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
14018 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
14019 multiples of 10000.
14021 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
14022 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
14023 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
14024 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
14025 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
14026 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
14027 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
14028 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
14029 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14030 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
14031 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
14032 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
14033 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
14034 Otherwise it is at info.
14036 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
14037 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14038 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14039 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14041 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
14042 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14043 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14044 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14046 o Minor features (security, windows):
14047 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14048 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14049 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14050 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14051 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14053 o Minor features (config options):
14054 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
14055 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
14056 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
14057 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
14058 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
14059 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
14060 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
14061 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
14063 o Minor features (controller):
14064 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
14065 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
14067 o Minor features (defaults):
14068 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
14069 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
14070 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
14071 can. Closes ticket 21407.
14072 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
14073 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
14074 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
14075 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
14076 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
14077 Closes ticket 21641.
14079 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
14080 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
14081 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
14082 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14083 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14084 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14085 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14087 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
14088 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
14089 introduction points than specified in
14090 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
14091 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
14092 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
14093 21594; closes ticket 21622.
14094 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
14095 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
14096 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
14097 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
14099 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14100 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
14101 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
14102 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
14103 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
14104 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
14105 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
14106 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
14107 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
14108 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
14110 o Minor features (logging):
14111 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
14112 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
14113 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
14114 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
14117 o Minor features (performance):
14118 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
14119 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
14121 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
14122 speed some controller functions.
14124 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
14125 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
14126 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
14127 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
14129 o Minor features (safety):
14130 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
14131 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
14132 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
14135 o Minor features (testing):
14136 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
14137 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
14138 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
14139 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
14140 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
14141 on. Closes ticket 21439.
14142 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
14143 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
14144 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
14145 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
14146 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
14147 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
14148 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
14149 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
14150 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
14151 21507. Partially implements 21470.
14153 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
14154 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14155 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14156 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14158 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14159 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
14160 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
14161 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
14164 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14165 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14166 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14168 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
14169 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
14170 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
14171 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
14172 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
14173 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
14174 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14175 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
14176 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
14177 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
14178 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
14179 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
14180 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
14181 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
14183 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14184 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
14185 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14186 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
14187 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
14188 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
14189 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
14190 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14192 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14193 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14194 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14195 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14196 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
14197 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
14198 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
14200 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
14201 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
14202 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
14203 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
14204 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
14206 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14207 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
14208 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14209 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
14210 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
14211 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14212 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
14213 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14214 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
14215 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
14216 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14218 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14219 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
14220 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
14221 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14222 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
14223 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
14224 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14226 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14227 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14228 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14230 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
14231 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
14232 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
14233 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
14234 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14236 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14237 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14238 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14239 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14240 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14241 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14242 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14243 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14244 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14245 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14247 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14248 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14249 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14250 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14251 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14253 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14254 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14255 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14257 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14258 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14259 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14260 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14261 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14262 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14263 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14264 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14265 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14266 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14267 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14268 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14270 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14271 Resolves ticket 22213.
14272 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14273 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14274 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14275 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14276 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14277 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14278 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14279 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14282 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14283 Closes ticket 21873.
14284 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14285 Closes ticket 21151.
14286 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14287 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14289 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14290 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14291 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14292 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14294 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14295 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14296 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14297 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14298 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14299 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14300 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14301 default behavior is now unavailable.
14302 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14303 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14304 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14305 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14306 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14307 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14308 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14310 o Removed features (tools):
14311 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14312 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14313 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14314 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14315 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14318 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14319 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14320 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14321 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14322 clients are not affected.
14324 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14325 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14326 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14327 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14328 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14329 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14335 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14336 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14337 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14338 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14339 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14340 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14341 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14343 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14344 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14345 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14346 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14347 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14351 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14352 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14354 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14355 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14356 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14357 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14358 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14359 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14362 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14363 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14365 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14366 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14367 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14368 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14369 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14371 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
14372 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14374 o Minor features (geoip):
14375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14378 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
14379 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14380 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14381 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14383 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14384 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14385 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14386 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14389 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
14390 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
14391 0.3.0 release series.
14393 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
14394 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
14395 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
14398 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14399 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14400 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14401 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14403 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
14404 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
14405 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
14406 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14407 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
14409 o Minor features (geoip):
14410 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14413 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
14414 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
14415 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
14416 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
14419 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14420 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14421 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14422 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14423 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14424 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14425 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14426 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14428 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14429 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
14430 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14432 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14433 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14434 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14437 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14438 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
14439 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
14440 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
14441 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14444 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14445 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14446 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14450 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14451 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14452 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14453 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14454 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14457 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14458 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14459 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14461 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14462 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14463 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14464 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14465 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14466 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14467 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14469 o Minor features (geoip):
14470 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14474 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14475 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14476 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14477 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14480 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14481 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14482 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14484 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14485 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14487 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14488 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14489 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14491 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14492 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14493 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14496 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14497 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14498 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14499 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14500 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14501 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14502 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14503 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14504 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14506 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14507 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14508 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14509 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14510 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14511 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14512 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14513 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14514 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14515 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14516 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14517 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14518 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14520 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14521 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14522 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14523 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14524 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14526 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14527 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14528 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14530 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14531 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14532 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14533 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14534 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14535 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14536 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14539 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14540 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14541 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14542 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14543 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14544 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14545 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14547 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14548 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14549 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14550 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14553 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14554 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14555 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14556 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14558 o Minor features (geoip):
14559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14563 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14564 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14565 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14566 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14569 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14570 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14571 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14573 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14574 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14576 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14577 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14578 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14580 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14581 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14582 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14585 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14586 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14587 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14588 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14589 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14590 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14591 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14592 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14593 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14595 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14596 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14597 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14598 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14599 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14600 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14601 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14602 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14603 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14605 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14606 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14607 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14608 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14609 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14611 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14612 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14613 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14614 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14615 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14618 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14619 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14620 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14621 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14622 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14624 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14625 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14626 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14628 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14629 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14630 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14631 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14632 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14633 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14636 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14637 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14638 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14639 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14640 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14641 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14642 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14645 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14646 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14647 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14648 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14649 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14650 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14651 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14653 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14654 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14655 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14656 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14659 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14660 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14661 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14662 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14664 o Minor features (geoip):
14665 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14668 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14669 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14670 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14673 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14674 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14675 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14676 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14679 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14680 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14681 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14683 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14684 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14686 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14687 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14688 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14690 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14691 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14692 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14695 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14696 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14697 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14698 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14699 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14700 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14701 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14702 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14703 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14705 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14706 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14707 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14708 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14709 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14710 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14711 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14712 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14713 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14715 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14716 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14717 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14718 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14719 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14721 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14722 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14723 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14724 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14725 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14728 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14729 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14730 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14731 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14732 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14734 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14735 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14736 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14738 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14739 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14740 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14741 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14742 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14743 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14746 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14747 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14748 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14749 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14750 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14751 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14752 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14755 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14756 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14757 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14758 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14759 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14760 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14761 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14763 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14764 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14765 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14766 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14769 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14770 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14771 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14772 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14774 o Minor features (geoip):
14775 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14779 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14780 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14782 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14783 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14784 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14785 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14786 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14787 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14789 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14790 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14791 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14795 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14796 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14797 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14798 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14801 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14802 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14803 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14805 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14806 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14808 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14809 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14810 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14812 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14813 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14814 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14817 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14818 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14819 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14820 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14821 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14822 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14823 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14824 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14825 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14827 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14828 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14829 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14830 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14831 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14832 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14833 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14834 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14835 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14837 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14838 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14839 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14840 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14841 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14844 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14845 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14846 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14847 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14848 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14850 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14851 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14852 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14854 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14855 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14856 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14857 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14858 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14859 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14862 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14863 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14864 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14865 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14866 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14867 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14868 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14871 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14872 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14873 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14874 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14875 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14876 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14877 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14879 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14880 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14881 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14882 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14885 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14886 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14887 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14888 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14890 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14891 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14892 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14893 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14895 o Minor features (geoip):
14896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14899 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14900 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14901 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14903 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14904 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14905 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14909 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
14910 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
14911 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
14912 keep them from coming back.
14914 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
14915 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
14916 will be nearly identical to it.
14918 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
14919 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
14920 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
14921 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
14922 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
14923 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14925 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
14926 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
14927 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14929 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14930 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14931 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14932 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14933 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14934 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14935 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14936 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14937 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14938 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14939 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14940 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14941 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14942 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14943 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14945 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14946 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14947 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14949 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14950 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14951 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14953 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14954 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14955 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14956 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14957 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14958 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14959 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14961 o Minor features (geoip):
14962 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14965 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14966 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14967 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14970 o Minor features (testing):
14971 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14972 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14973 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14975 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14976 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14977 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14979 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14980 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14981 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14982 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
14983 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
14984 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14986 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14987 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14988 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14989 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14990 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14991 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14992 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14995 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
14996 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
14997 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
14998 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14999 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
15000 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
15001 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15003 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15004 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
15005 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
15006 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
15007 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
15008 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15010 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15011 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15012 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
15014 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
15015 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15016 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15017 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15018 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15021 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15024 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15025 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15026 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15027 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15029 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15030 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15031 least January of 2020.
15033 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15034 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15035 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15036 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15039 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15040 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15041 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15042 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15043 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15044 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15045 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15047 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15048 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15049 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15050 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15051 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15052 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15053 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15055 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15056 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15057 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15059 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15060 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15061 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15063 o Minor features (geoip):
15064 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15067 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15068 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15069 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15071 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15072 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15074 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15075 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15076 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15078 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15079 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15080 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15081 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15082 Patch by "junglefowl".
15085 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
15086 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
15087 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
15088 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
15089 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
15090 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
15092 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
15093 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
15094 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
15097 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
15098 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15099 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15100 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15102 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
15103 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
15104 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
15105 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
15106 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15108 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15109 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
15110 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
15111 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
15112 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15114 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
15115 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15116 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15117 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15118 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15119 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15120 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15122 o Minor feature (client):
15123 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
15124 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
15126 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
15127 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
15128 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
15129 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
15131 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
15132 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
15133 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
15134 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
15135 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
15137 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
15138 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
15139 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
15140 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
15141 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
15142 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
15143 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
15144 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
15145 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
15146 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
15148 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
15149 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15150 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15152 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15153 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15155 o Minor features (relay):
15156 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
15157 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
15158 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
15159 Written by Michael Sonntag.
15161 o Minor bugfix (logging):
15162 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
15163 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
15164 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
15165 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
15168 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15169 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
15170 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
15171 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15173 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
15174 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
15175 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
15177 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
15178 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15179 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
15180 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
15181 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15182 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
15183 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
15185 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
15186 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
15187 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
15188 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
15189 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
15190 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
15191 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
15194 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15195 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
15196 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15198 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15199 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
15200 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
15201 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
15202 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15203 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
15204 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
15205 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
15207 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
15208 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
15209 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15211 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15212 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15213 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15214 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15216 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
15217 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
15218 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
15219 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15221 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15222 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15223 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15224 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15225 Patch by "junglefowl".
15227 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15228 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15229 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15233 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
15234 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15235 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15236 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15237 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15238 version should upgrade.
15240 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
15241 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
15242 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
15243 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
15244 the set of fallback directories, and more.
15246 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
15247 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15248 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
15249 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
15250 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
15251 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
15254 o Major features (security):
15255 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15256 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15257 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15258 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15259 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15260 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15262 o Major features (directory authority, security):
15263 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
15264 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
15265 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
15267 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
15268 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
15269 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
15270 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
15271 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
15274 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
15275 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15276 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15277 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15278 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15279 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15280 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15281 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15282 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15283 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15284 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15286 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
15287 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15288 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15290 o Minor features (controller):
15291 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
15292 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
15294 o Minor features (entry guards):
15295 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
15296 break regression tests.
15297 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
15298 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
15300 o Minor features (fallback directories):
15301 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
15303 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
15304 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
15305 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
15306 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
15307 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
15308 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
15309 Closes ticket 20539.
15310 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
15312 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
15313 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
15314 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
15315 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
15316 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
15318 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
15319 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
15320 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
15321 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
15322 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
15323 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
15324 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
15325 Closes ticket 20822.
15326 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
15327 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
15329 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
15330 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15333 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
15334 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
15335 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
15336 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
15338 o Minor features (linting):
15339 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
15340 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
15342 o Minor features (logging):
15343 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
15344 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
15346 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
15347 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
15348 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
15349 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
15350 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
15351 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
15353 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
15354 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
15355 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
15356 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
15358 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15359 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
15360 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
15363 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
15364 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
15365 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
15366 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15368 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15369 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
15370 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
15371 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
15372 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15374 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15375 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
15376 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
15379 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
15380 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
15381 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
15382 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
15383 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15385 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15386 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
15387 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
15389 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15390 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
15391 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15392 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
15393 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
15394 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
15395 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15396 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
15397 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15399 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
15400 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
15401 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
15402 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15404 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15405 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
15406 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
15407 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15408 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15409 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15411 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15412 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15413 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15414 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15415 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15416 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15417 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15418 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15420 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15421 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
15422 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15424 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15425 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15426 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15427 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15429 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15430 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15432 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15433 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15434 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15435 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15436 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15438 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15439 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15440 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15442 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15443 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15444 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15445 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15446 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15448 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15449 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15450 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15452 o Documentation (formatting):
15453 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15454 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15456 o Documentation (man page):
15457 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15458 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15461 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15462 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15463 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15464 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15465 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15466 version should upgrade.
15468 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15469 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15471 o Major bugfixes (security):
15472 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15473 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15474 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15475 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15476 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15477 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15479 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15480 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15481 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15482 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15483 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15484 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15485 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15486 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15487 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15488 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15489 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15491 o Minor features (geoip):
15492 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15495 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15496 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15497 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15498 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15500 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15501 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15504 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
15505 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
15506 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
15507 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
15508 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
15509 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
15510 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
15511 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
15513 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
15515 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
15516 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
15517 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
15518 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
15519 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
15522 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
15523 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
15524 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
15525 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
15526 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
15527 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
15528 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
15529 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
15532 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
15533 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
15534 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
15535 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
15536 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
15538 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
15539 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
15540 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
15541 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
15542 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
15543 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
15544 15056; part of proposal 220.
15545 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
15546 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
15547 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
15548 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
15549 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
15551 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15552 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
15553 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
15554 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
15555 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15557 o Minor features (controller):
15558 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
15559 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
15562 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
15563 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
15564 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
15567 o Minor features (directory authority):
15568 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
15569 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
15570 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
15571 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
15572 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
15574 o Minor features (directory cache):
15575 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
15576 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
15579 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
15580 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
15581 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
15582 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
15584 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
15585 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
15586 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
15587 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
15589 o Minor features (infrastructure):
15590 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
15591 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
15593 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15594 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
15595 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
15596 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15598 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15599 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
15600 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15601 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
15602 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
15603 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15605 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
15606 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
15607 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
15608 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
15609 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15611 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
15612 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
15613 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
15614 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
15615 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15617 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15618 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
15619 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
15620 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
15621 on all recent tor versions.
15622 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
15623 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
15624 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
15625 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15627 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
15628 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
15629 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15631 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15632 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
15633 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
15634 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15637 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15638 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15639 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15642 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15643 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15644 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15645 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15646 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15648 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15649 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15650 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15651 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15653 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15654 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15655 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15656 Closes ticket 19858.
15657 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15658 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15659 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15660 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15661 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15662 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15663 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15664 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15665 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15666 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15667 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15668 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15669 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15670 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15671 channel abstraction.
15672 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15673 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15674 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15675 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15676 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15677 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15681 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15682 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15683 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15684 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15686 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15687 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
15689 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15690 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15691 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15692 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15693 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15696 o Removed features:
15697 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15698 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15699 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15701 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15702 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15703 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15706 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15707 from "overcaffeinated".
15708 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15709 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15710 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15711 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15712 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15716 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15717 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15718 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15719 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15720 become available for their systems.
15722 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15725 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15726 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15728 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15729 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15730 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15731 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15732 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15733 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15734 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15735 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15736 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15738 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15739 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15740 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15741 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15742 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15744 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15745 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15749 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15750 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15752 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15753 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15754 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15755 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15756 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15757 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15758 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15759 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15761 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15763 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15764 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15765 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15766 become available for their systems.
15768 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
15769 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15771 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
15772 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15773 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15774 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15775 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15776 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15777 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15778 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15779 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15781 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15782 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15783 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15784 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15785 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15788 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
15789 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
15790 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
15793 o Minor features (geoip):
15794 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15797 o Minor bugfix (build):
15798 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15799 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15800 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15802 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15803 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
15804 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
15805 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15807 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
15808 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
15809 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
15811 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15812 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15813 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15816 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15817 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15818 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15819 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15820 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15821 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15823 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15824 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15825 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15826 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15828 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15829 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
15830 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
15832 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15833 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
15834 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
15835 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
15836 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
15837 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
15838 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15839 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
15840 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
15841 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
15844 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15845 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15846 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15847 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15850 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15851 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15852 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15853 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15854 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15855 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15858 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15859 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15860 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15863 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15864 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15865 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15866 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15868 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15869 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15870 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15871 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15874 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15875 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15876 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15877 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15880 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15881 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15882 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15885 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15886 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15887 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15889 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15890 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15891 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15893 o Minor features (geoip):
15894 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15897 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
15898 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
15899 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
15900 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
15901 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
15903 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15904 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15905 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15906 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15907 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15908 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15910 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15911 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15912 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15914 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15915 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
15916 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
15917 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
15918 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
15919 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
15921 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15922 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15923 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15925 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15926 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15928 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
15929 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
15930 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
15931 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
15932 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
15933 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
15935 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15936 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15937 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15941 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15942 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15945 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
15946 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
15947 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
15948 everyone to test this release.
15950 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
15951 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15952 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15953 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15956 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
15957 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15958 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15959 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15962 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15963 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
15964 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
15965 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
15966 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15967 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15968 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15969 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15970 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15971 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15973 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
15974 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
15975 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
15976 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15977 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
15978 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15979 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
15980 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
15981 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15982 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15983 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15984 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15986 o Minor features (geoip):
15987 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15990 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
15991 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
15992 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
15993 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
15994 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
15995 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15997 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
15998 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
15999 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
16000 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16001 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
16002 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16004 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16005 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16006 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16007 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
16010 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16011 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16012 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16013 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16014 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16015 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16016 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16017 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16019 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
16020 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16021 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16023 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16024 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16025 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16026 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16027 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16028 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16029 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16030 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16032 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
16033 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
16034 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
16037 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16038 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16039 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16042 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
16043 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16044 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16045 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16048 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16049 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16050 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16051 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16052 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16055 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16056 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16057 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16058 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16059 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16060 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16061 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16062 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16063 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16065 o Minor features (geoip):
16066 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16070 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
16071 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
16072 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
16073 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
16074 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
16077 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
16078 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
16079 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
16080 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
16081 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
16082 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
16083 be a release candidate.
16085 o Major features (security fixes):
16086 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16087 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16088 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16089 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16090 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16091 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16092 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16093 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16095 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
16096 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
16097 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
16098 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
16099 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
16100 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
16101 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
16102 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
16103 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
16104 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
16105 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
16106 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
16107 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
16108 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
16111 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16112 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16113 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16115 o Minor features (client, directory):
16116 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
16117 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
16118 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
16121 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
16122 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
16125 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
16126 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
16127 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
16130 o Minor features (geoip):
16131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16134 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16135 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16136 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16137 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16138 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
16140 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16141 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16142 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16143 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16146 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
16147 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16148 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16149 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16150 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16152 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16153 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16154 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16157 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
16158 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16159 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16160 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16162 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16163 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16164 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16165 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16167 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16168 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16169 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16170 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16173 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16174 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16175 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16179 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16180 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
16182 o Required libraries:
16183 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
16184 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
16185 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
16188 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
16189 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
16190 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
16191 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
16192 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
16193 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
16194 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
16195 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
16197 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
16198 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16199 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16200 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16201 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16202 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16204 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
16205 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16206 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16207 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16208 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16211 o Major features (circuit building, security):
16212 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
16213 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
16214 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
16216 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
16217 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
16219 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
16220 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
16221 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
16222 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
16223 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
16224 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
16225 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
16226 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
16227 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
16228 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
16229 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
16231 o Major features (resource management):
16232 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
16233 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
16234 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
16235 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
16236 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
16237 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
16239 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
16240 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
16241 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
16242 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
16244 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
16245 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
16246 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
16247 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16249 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16250 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
16251 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
16252 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
16253 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
16254 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16256 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16257 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
16258 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16259 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16260 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16262 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16263 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
16264 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
16265 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16267 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
16268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16271 o Minor feature (port flags):
16272 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
16273 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
16274 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
16275 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
16276 18693; patch by "teor".
16278 o Minor features (directory authority):
16279 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
16280 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
16281 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
16283 o Minor features (testing):
16284 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16285 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16286 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16287 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16289 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16290 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16291 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16292 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
16293 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16294 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16295 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16296 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16297 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16299 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16300 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16301 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16302 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16304 o Minor features (unit tests):
16305 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16306 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16307 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16308 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16309 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16310 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
16311 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16312 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16314 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16315 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16316 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16317 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16318 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16319 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16320 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16321 assertion as a test failure.
16323 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16324 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16325 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16326 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16327 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16328 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16330 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
16331 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16332 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16333 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16334 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16335 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
16336 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
16337 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
16338 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
16339 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
16340 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16341 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16342 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
16343 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
16344 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
16345 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16347 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16348 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16349 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16350 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16351 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16352 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16353 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16356 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16357 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16358 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16359 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
16360 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16361 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16362 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16365 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16366 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16367 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16368 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16370 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16371 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16372 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16374 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16375 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16376 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16377 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16378 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16379 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16381 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16382 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
16383 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
16384 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
16386 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16387 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16388 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
16390 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16391 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16392 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
16393 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16394 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16395 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16397 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16398 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16399 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16401 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16402 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16403 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16406 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16407 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
16408 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16409 19678. Patch by teor.
16411 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16412 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
16413 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
16414 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
16415 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
16416 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
16418 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16419 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16423 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16424 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16425 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16426 who select public relays as their bridges.
16428 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16429 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16430 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16431 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16432 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16433 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16435 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16436 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16437 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16438 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16439 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16442 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16443 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
16444 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
16445 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16447 o Minor features (geoip):
16448 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16452 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
16453 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
16454 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
16455 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
16456 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16457 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
16459 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
16460 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16461 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16463 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
16464 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16465 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16466 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16467 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16468 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16470 o Major features (user interface):
16471 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16472 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
16473 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
16475 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
16476 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
16477 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
16478 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16480 o Minor features (config):
16481 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16482 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16484 o Minor features (geoip):
16485 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16488 o Minor features (user interface):
16489 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
16490 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
16493 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16494 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16495 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16498 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16499 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16501 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
16502 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
16503 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
16504 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16506 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
16507 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16508 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16511 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
16512 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16513 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16514 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16516 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16517 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16518 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16520 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16521 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16522 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16524 o Deprecated features:
16525 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
16526 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
16527 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
16528 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
16529 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
16530 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
16531 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
16532 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
16533 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16534 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
16535 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
16536 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
16537 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
16538 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
16539 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
16540 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
16541 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
16542 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
16543 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
16544 and TransListenAddress.
16547 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16548 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16551 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16552 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
16555 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16556 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16557 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16558 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16559 encouraged to upgrade.
16561 o Directory authority changes:
16562 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16563 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16565 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16566 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16567 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16568 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16569 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16570 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16572 o Minor features (geoip):
16573 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16576 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16577 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16578 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16581 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16582 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16583 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16584 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16587 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
16588 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
16589 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
16590 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
16591 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
16592 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
16593 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
16594 security, correctness, and performance.
16596 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
16598 o New system requirements:
16599 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
16600 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
16601 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
16602 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
16603 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
16604 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
16605 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
16606 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
16608 o Major features (build, hardening):
16609 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
16610 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
16611 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
16612 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
16613 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
16614 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
16615 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
16616 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
16617 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
16619 o Major features (compilation):
16620 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
16621 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
16622 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
16623 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
16625 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
16626 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
16627 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
16629 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
16630 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
16631 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
16632 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
16633 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
16634 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
16635 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
16636 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
16638 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
16639 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
16640 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
16641 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
16642 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
16643 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
16644 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
16646 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
16647 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
16648 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
16649 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
16650 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
16651 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
16652 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16654 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
16655 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
16656 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
16657 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
16658 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
16660 o Minor features (build, hardening):
16661 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
16662 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
16663 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
16664 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
16665 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
16666 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
16667 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
16668 Closes ticket 18895.
16670 o Minor features (code safety):
16671 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
16672 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
16675 o Minor features (controller):
16676 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
16677 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
16678 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
16679 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
16680 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
16681 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
16682 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
16683 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
16685 o Minor features (directory authority):
16686 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
16687 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
16688 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
16689 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16690 Implements ticket 18624.
16691 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16692 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16693 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16696 o Minor features (hidden service):
16697 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16698 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16699 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16702 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16703 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16704 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16705 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16706 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16707 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16708 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16709 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16710 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16711 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16712 Closes ticket 18365.
16714 o Minor features (logging):
16715 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16716 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16717 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16718 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16719 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16720 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16721 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16722 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16723 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16724 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16726 o Minor features (performance):
16727 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16728 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16729 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16730 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16731 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16732 Closes ticket 18815.
16734 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16735 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16736 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16737 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16738 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16741 o Minor features (testing):
16742 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
16743 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16744 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16745 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16746 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16747 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16748 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16749 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16752 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16753 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
16754 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16755 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16756 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16758 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16759 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16760 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16761 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16762 patch from "cypherpunks".
16764 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16765 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16766 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16768 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16769 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16770 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16771 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16773 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16774 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16775 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16776 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16777 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16778 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16779 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16780 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16782 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16783 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16784 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16785 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16786 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16787 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16788 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16790 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
16791 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16792 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16795 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16796 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16797 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16799 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16800 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16801 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16804 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
16805 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16806 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16807 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16810 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16811 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16812 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16814 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16815 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16816 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16819 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16820 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16821 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16822 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16823 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16824 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
16825 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16826 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16827 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16830 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16831 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16832 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16833 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16834 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16835 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16836 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16838 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16839 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16840 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16841 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16842 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16844 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16845 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16847 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16848 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16850 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16851 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16852 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16853 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16856 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16857 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16859 o Removed features:
16860 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16861 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16862 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16863 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16864 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16865 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
16866 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16869 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16870 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16871 command-line options to enable them.
16872 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16873 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16876 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16878 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16880 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16881 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16882 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16883 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16884 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16885 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16887 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
16889 o Minor features (geoip):
16890 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16893 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16894 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
16895 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16897 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16898 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
16899 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
16900 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
16902 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16903 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16904 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16905 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16906 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16907 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16908 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16909 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16912 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
16913 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
16914 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
16915 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
16916 against previous versions.
16918 o Directory authority changes:
16919 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16921 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
16922 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
16923 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
16924 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
16926 o Minor features (build):
16927 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16928 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
16929 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16930 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16931 Patch from intrigeri.
16933 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
16934 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
16935 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
16938 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
16939 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
16940 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
16941 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
16942 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
16945 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16946 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
16947 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
16948 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16949 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
16950 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
16951 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16953 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
16954 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16955 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16956 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16958 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16959 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
16960 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
16961 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
16962 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
16963 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16965 o Fallback directory list:
16966 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
16967 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
16968 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
16969 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
16970 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
16971 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
16972 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
16973 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
16974 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
16977 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
16978 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16979 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
16980 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
16983 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16984 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16985 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16986 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16988 o Minor features (build):
16989 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16990 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
16992 o Minor features (geoip):
16993 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16997 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16998 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17000 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17001 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17002 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17003 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17007 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
17008 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
17009 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
17010 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
17011 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
17014 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
17015 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17016 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17017 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17018 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17020 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
17021 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
17022 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
17023 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
17024 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
17025 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
17027 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
17028 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
17029 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
17030 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17032 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
17033 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
17034 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
17035 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
17036 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
17037 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
17038 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
17040 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
17041 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
17043 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
17044 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
17045 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
17047 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17048 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
17049 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
17050 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
17051 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
17052 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17055 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
17056 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
17057 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
17060 o Major bugfixes (key management):
17061 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17062 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17063 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17064 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17065 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17066 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17069 o Major bugfixes (testing):
17070 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
17071 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17072 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
17073 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17075 o Minor features (clients):
17076 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
17077 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
17078 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
17080 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
17081 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
17082 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
17083 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
17084 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
17085 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
17086 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
17087 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
17088 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
17089 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
17091 o Minor features (geoip):
17092 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17095 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
17096 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
17097 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
17100 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17101 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
17102 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17104 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17105 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
17106 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
17108 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
17109 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
17111 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
17112 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
17115 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17116 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
17117 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
17118 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
17119 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17120 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
17121 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
17122 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17124 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
17125 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
17126 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
17127 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
17128 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17130 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
17131 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
17132 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
17133 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17134 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17135 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
17138 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
17139 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
17140 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
17141 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
17142 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
17143 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17145 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17146 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17147 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17148 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17149 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
17150 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17151 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
17152 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17154 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17155 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17156 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17157 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17159 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17160 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17161 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17162 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17163 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17164 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17167 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17168 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
17169 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
17171 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17172 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17173 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17175 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17176 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17177 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17179 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17180 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
17181 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
17182 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17183 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17184 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17185 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17187 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17188 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17189 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17190 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17193 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17194 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17195 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17196 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17199 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
17200 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
17201 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
17202 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
17203 directory support should also be much improved.
17205 o New system requirements:
17206 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
17207 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
17208 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
17209 longer runs with, these versions.
17210 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
17211 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
17212 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
17214 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
17215 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
17216 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
17217 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
17218 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
17220 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
17221 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17222 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17223 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17224 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17226 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
17227 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
17228 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
17229 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
17230 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
17232 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
17233 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
17234 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
17235 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17237 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
17238 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
17239 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17240 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
17241 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17243 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
17244 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
17245 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
17246 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
17247 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
17248 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17251 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
17252 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17253 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17255 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
17256 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
17257 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
17258 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
17261 o Major bugfixes (voting):
17262 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
17263 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
17264 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
17265 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
17267 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
17268 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
17269 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
17270 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17271 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
17272 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
17273 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
17274 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
17275 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
17276 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17278 o Minor features (security, win32):
17279 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
17280 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
17283 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
17284 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17285 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17286 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17288 o Minor features (build):
17289 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
17290 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
17291 Steven Chamberlain.
17293 o Minor features (code hardening):
17294 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
17295 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
17296 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
17299 o Minor features (crypto):
17300 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
17301 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
17304 o Minor features (geoip):
17305 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17308 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
17309 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
17310 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
17311 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
17312 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
17314 o Minor features (IPv6):
17315 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
17316 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
17317 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
17318 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
17319 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
17320 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
17321 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
17323 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17324 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
17325 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
17326 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
17327 while fixing 18548.
17329 o Minor features (robustness):
17330 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
17331 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
17332 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
17334 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17335 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
17336 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
17337 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
17338 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
17339 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
17340 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
17343 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17344 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17345 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17346 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17347 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17349 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17350 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17351 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17352 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17354 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17355 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
17356 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
17358 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
17359 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
17360 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17361 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
17362 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
17363 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17365 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
17366 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
17367 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
17368 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
17369 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17371 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17372 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
17373 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
17374 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
17377 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17378 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
17379 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17381 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
17382 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
17383 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
17384 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17386 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17387 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
17388 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
17389 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
17390 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
17391 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17393 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
17394 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
17395 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
17396 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
17398 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
17399 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17400 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17401 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17402 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17404 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17405 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17406 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17407 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17408 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17409 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17410 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17411 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17412 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17415 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17416 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17417 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17418 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17420 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17421 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17422 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17424 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17425 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17426 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17427 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17428 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17429 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17430 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17431 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
17432 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17434 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17435 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17436 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17437 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17438 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17439 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17440 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
17441 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
17442 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
17443 Christian, patch by teor.
17445 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17446 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17447 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17448 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17450 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
17451 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
17452 patch by "cypherpunks".
17453 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17455 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17456 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17458 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17459 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17460 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17461 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17463 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17464 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17465 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17468 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17469 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17470 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17471 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17472 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17473 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17475 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
17476 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17477 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17478 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17480 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17481 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17482 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17483 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17485 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17486 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17487 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17488 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17489 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17490 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17491 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17492 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17493 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17496 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17497 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17498 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17500 o Removed features:
17501 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17502 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17503 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17506 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17508 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17509 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17512 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
17513 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
17514 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
17515 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
17516 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
17518 o Major features (security, Linux):
17519 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
17520 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
17521 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
17522 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
17523 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
17525 o Major features (directory system):
17526 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
17527 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
17528 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
17529 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
17530 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
17531 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
17532 "mikeperry" and "teor".
17533 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
17534 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
17535 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
17536 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
17537 15775. Patch by "teor".
17538 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
17539 "gsathya", and "karsten".
17540 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
17541 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
17542 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
17543 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
17544 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
17547 o Major key updates:
17548 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17549 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17552 o Minor features (security, clock):
17553 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
17554 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
17555 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
17556 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
17558 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
17559 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
17560 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
17561 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
17562 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
17563 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17565 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
17566 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
17567 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
17568 Implements ticket 17026.
17569 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
17570 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
17571 Implements feature 17986.
17572 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
17573 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
17574 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
17575 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17576 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17577 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17580 o Minor features (security, RNG):
17581 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
17582 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
17583 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
17584 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
17585 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
17586 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
17587 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
17588 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
17589 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
17590 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
17593 o Minor features (accounting):
17594 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
17595 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
17596 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
17597 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
17599 o Minor features (build):
17600 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
17601 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
17602 patch from "cypherpunks."
17603 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
17604 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
17605 17549, 17921, and 17984.
17607 o Minor features (controller):
17608 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
17609 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
17610 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
17611 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
17612 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
17613 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
17614 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
17615 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
17618 o Minor features (crypto):
17619 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
17621 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
17622 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
17623 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
17624 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
17625 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
17626 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
17627 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
17628 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17630 o Minor features (directory downloads):
17631 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
17632 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
17633 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
17634 17864; patch by "teor".
17635 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
17636 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
17637 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
17639 o Minor features (geoip):
17640 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17643 o Minor features (IPv6):
17644 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
17645 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
17646 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
17647 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
17648 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
17649 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
17650 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
17651 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
17652 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
17653 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
17654 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
17656 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
17657 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17658 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
17659 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
17661 o Minor features (logging):
17662 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
17663 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
17664 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
17665 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
17668 o Minor features (portability):
17669 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
17670 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
17672 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
17673 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
17674 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
17675 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
17676 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
17678 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
17679 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
17680 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
17681 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
17682 Resolves ticket 17951.
17684 o Minor features (replay cache):
17685 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
17686 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
17688 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
17689 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
17690 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
17691 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
17692 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17693 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
17694 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
17695 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
17696 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
17697 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
17698 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17699 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
17700 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
17701 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17703 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
17704 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
17705 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
17706 from "unixninja92".
17708 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17709 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
17710 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
17711 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17712 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
17713 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
17715 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
17718 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17719 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
17720 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
17721 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17722 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
17723 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17724 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17725 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
17727 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17728 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17729 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
17730 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
17731 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
17732 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
17733 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17734 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
17736 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
17737 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17739 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
17740 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
17741 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17743 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17744 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17745 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17746 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17748 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17749 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17750 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17752 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17753 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17754 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17756 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17757 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17758 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17759 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17760 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17762 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17763 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17765 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17766 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
17767 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
17770 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17771 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17772 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17773 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17774 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17775 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
17777 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17778 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17779 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17780 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17781 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
17783 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
17784 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17785 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17788 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
17789 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17790 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17791 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17792 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17793 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17794 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17795 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17798 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17799 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17800 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17801 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17802 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17803 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17804 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17805 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17806 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
17807 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17809 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17810 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17812 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17813 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17814 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17815 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17816 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17817 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17818 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17819 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17820 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17821 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17823 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17824 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17825 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17826 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17828 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17829 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17830 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17831 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17832 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17834 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17835 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17838 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17839 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17840 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17841 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17842 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17843 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17844 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17847 o Removed features:
17848 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17849 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17850 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17851 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17852 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17855 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17856 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17857 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
17858 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17859 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17860 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17861 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17862 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17863 portion of ticket 16831.
17864 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17865 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17866 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17868 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17869 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17872 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17873 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17874 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17876 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17877 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17878 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17879 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17880 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17881 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17884 o Minor features (geoip):
17885 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17888 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17889 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17890 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17891 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17892 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17893 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17895 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17896 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17897 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17898 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17899 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17900 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17901 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17902 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17903 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17904 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17907 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17908 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17909 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17910 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17911 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17912 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17913 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17914 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17915 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17916 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17917 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17918 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17919 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17920 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17921 that would make him proud.
17923 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17925 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17926 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17927 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17928 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17929 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17930 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17931 of Tor invoke which others.
17933 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
17936 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
17937 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
17938 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
17939 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
17940 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
17941 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
17942 release will the the official stable release.
17944 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17945 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17946 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17947 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17948 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17951 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
17952 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
17953 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17955 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17956 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17957 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17958 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
17959 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17960 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
17961 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
17963 o Minor features (geoIP):
17964 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17968 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17969 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17970 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
17971 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17972 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17973 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17975 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17976 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
17977 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
17980 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17981 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17982 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17983 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17985 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17986 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
17987 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
17988 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
17989 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
17990 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
17991 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
17992 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
17993 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
17994 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
17995 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
17999 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
18000 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
18004 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
18005 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
18006 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
18007 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
18008 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
18010 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
18011 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
18012 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
18013 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
18015 o Major features (security, hidden services):
18016 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
18017 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
18018 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
18019 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
18020 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
18021 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
18022 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
18024 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
18025 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
18026 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
18027 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
18028 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
18029 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
18032 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
18033 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
18034 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
18035 available. Implements ticket 16535.
18036 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
18037 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
18040 o Major features (performance testing):
18041 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
18042 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
18043 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
18045 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
18046 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
18047 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
18048 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
18050 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
18051 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
18052 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
18053 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
18054 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
18055 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
18057 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
18058 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
18060 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
18061 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
18062 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18063 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
18064 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18066 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
18067 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
18068 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
18069 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
18070 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
18071 own. Implements feature 15482.
18072 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
18073 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
18075 o Minor features (compilation):
18076 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
18077 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
18078 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
18079 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
18080 which started requiring ECC.
18082 o Minor features (geoip):
18083 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18086 o Minor features (hidden services):
18087 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
18088 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
18089 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
18090 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
18091 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
18092 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
18093 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
18094 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
18096 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
18097 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
18098 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
18101 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
18102 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
18103 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
18104 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
18106 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
18107 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
18108 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
18109 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
18110 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
18112 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
18113 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
18114 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
18115 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
18116 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18117 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
18118 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
18119 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
18120 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
18121 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
18122 Related to ticket 16069.
18123 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
18124 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
18125 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
18126 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
18127 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
18128 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18130 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
18131 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
18132 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18133 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
18134 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
18136 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
18137 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
18138 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18140 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
18141 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
18142 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
18143 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18145 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18146 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
18147 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
18148 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
18149 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18151 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18152 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
18153 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
18154 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
18155 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18156 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
18157 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
18158 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
18159 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
18160 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
18161 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
18164 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
18165 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
18166 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18168 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18169 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
18170 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18171 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
18172 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18174 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
18175 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
18176 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
18177 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
18179 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18180 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
18181 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
18183 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
18184 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18185 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
18186 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
18187 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
18188 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18189 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
18190 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18192 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18193 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
18194 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
18195 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
18196 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
18198 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
18199 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
18202 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18203 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
18204 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
18205 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
18206 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
18207 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
18208 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
18209 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
18210 function. Closes ticket 16763.
18211 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
18212 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
18213 suite of other microdesc functions.
18214 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
18215 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
18216 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
18217 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
18218 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
18219 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
18220 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
18221 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
18222 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
18223 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
18225 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
18226 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
18228 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
18231 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
18232 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
18233 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
18234 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
18238 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
18239 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
18240 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
18241 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
18242 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
18243 Closes ticket 13338.
18244 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
18245 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
18246 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
18247 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
18248 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
18249 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
18252 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
18253 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
18254 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
18255 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
18256 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
18257 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
18258 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
18260 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
18261 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
18262 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
18263 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
18264 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
18265 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
18266 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
18267 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
18268 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
18269 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
18270 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
18271 network before we begin.
18272 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
18273 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
18274 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
18275 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
18276 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
18277 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
18278 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
18279 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
18282 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
18283 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
18284 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
18285 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
18286 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
18287 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
18289 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
18290 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
18291 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
18293 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
18294 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
18295 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
18296 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
18297 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
18298 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
18299 Implements part of ticket 12498.
18300 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
18301 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
18302 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
18303 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
18304 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
18305 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
18306 part of ticket 12498.
18307 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
18308 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
18309 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
18310 key). Closes ticket 13642.
18312 o Major features (Hidden services):
18313 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
18314 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
18315 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
18316 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
18317 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
18319 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
18320 introduction points, which used to change the number of
18321 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
18322 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
18324 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
18325 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
18326 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
18327 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
18328 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
18329 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
18331 o Major features (performance):
18332 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
18333 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
18334 Implements ticket 16467.
18335 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
18336 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
18337 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
18338 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
18340 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
18341 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18342 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
18343 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
18344 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
18345 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
18347 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
18348 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18349 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18350 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18351 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18352 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18353 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18354 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18357 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18358 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
18359 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
18360 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
18361 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
18362 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
18363 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
18366 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
18367 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
18368 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
18369 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
18370 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
18371 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
18373 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
18374 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18375 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18376 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18377 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18378 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18379 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18380 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18383 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
18384 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18385 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18386 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18387 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
18388 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
18389 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18391 o Minor features (client):
18392 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
18393 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
18394 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
18396 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
18397 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
18398 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
18399 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18400 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
18401 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
18402 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
18405 o Minor features (control protocol):
18406 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
18407 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
18409 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18410 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
18411 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
18412 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
18413 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
18414 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
18416 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
18417 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18418 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18420 o Minor features (hidden services):
18421 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
18422 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
18423 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
18424 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
18427 o Minor features (portability):
18428 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
18429 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
18430 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
18432 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
18433 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18434 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18435 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18437 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18438 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
18439 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
18440 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18442 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
18443 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18444 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18445 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18446 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18447 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18449 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18450 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
18451 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
18452 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18453 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
18454 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
18455 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18457 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18458 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
18459 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18461 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
18462 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18463 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18464 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18466 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
18467 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
18468 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
18469 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
18471 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18472 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18475 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18476 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
18477 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18478 from "cypherpunks".
18480 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
18481 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
18482 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18483 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
18484 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
18485 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18487 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18488 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
18489 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18491 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
18492 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18493 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18495 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
18496 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
18497 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18498 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
18499 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18500 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
18501 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
18502 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
18503 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18505 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18506 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
18507 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
18508 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
18509 haven't supported that in ages.
18510 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
18511 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
18512 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
18513 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
18516 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
18517 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
18518 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
18519 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
18520 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
18521 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
18523 o Removed features:
18524 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
18525 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
18526 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
18527 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
18528 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
18529 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
18530 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
18531 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
18532 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
18533 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
18534 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
18535 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
18536 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
18537 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
18538 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
18539 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
18540 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
18543 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
18544 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
18545 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
18546 Closes ticket 15817.
18547 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
18548 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
18550 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
18551 default as a part of "make check".
18552 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
18553 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
18554 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
18555 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
18559 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
18560 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
18561 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
18562 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
18563 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
18564 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
18566 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
18567 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18568 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18569 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18570 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18571 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18572 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18573 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18576 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18577 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18578 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18579 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18580 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18581 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18582 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18583 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18586 o Minor features (geoip):
18587 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18588 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18590 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18591 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18592 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18593 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18594 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18595 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18597 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18598 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18599 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18600 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18603 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18604 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18605 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18606 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18607 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18609 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18610 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18611 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18612 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18613 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18616 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18617 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18618 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18619 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18620 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18621 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18622 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18625 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18626 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18627 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18629 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18630 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18631 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18632 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18633 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18634 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18637 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18638 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18639 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18642 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18643 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18644 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18645 authorities should upgrade.
18647 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18648 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18649 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18650 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18653 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18654 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18655 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18658 o Minor features (geoip):
18659 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18660 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18664 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
18665 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
18666 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
18667 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
18668 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
18669 the hidden services subsystem.
18671 o New system requirements:
18672 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
18673 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
18676 o Major features (controller):
18677 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
18678 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
18680 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
18681 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
18682 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
18683 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
18684 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
18685 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
18686 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
18688 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18689 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18690 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18691 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18694 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
18695 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
18696 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
18697 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
18698 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
18700 o Minor features (command-line interface):
18701 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
18702 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18703 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
18704 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
18706 o Minor features (controller):
18707 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
18708 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
18709 present. Implements ticket 14840.
18710 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
18711 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
18712 Closes ticket 14845.
18713 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
18714 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
18715 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
18717 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
18718 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
18719 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
18720 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
18722 o Minor features (geoip):
18723 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18724 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18727 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
18728 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
18729 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
18730 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
18731 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
18732 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
18733 Closes ticket 15745.
18735 o Minor features (logging):
18736 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
18737 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
18740 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
18741 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
18742 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
18743 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
18745 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
18746 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
18747 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
18748 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
18749 Resolves ticket 15435.
18751 o Minor features (testing):
18752 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
18753 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
18754 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
18755 files. Closes ticket 15180.
18756 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
18757 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
18758 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
18759 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
18760 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
18761 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
18762 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
18763 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
18764 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
18765 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
18766 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
18767 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
18769 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18770 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
18771 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
18774 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
18775 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
18776 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
18778 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
18779 stderr, not stdout.
18781 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
18782 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
18783 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
18784 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
18785 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
18786 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
18787 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
18788 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18790 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18791 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
18792 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
18794 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
18795 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
18796 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
18799 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18800 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18801 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18803 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
18804 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18806 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18807 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
18808 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
18809 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
18812 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
18813 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
18814 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
18815 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
18816 recent enough Clang.
18818 o Minor bugfixes (network):
18819 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
18820 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
18821 unsuitable for public communications.
18823 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18824 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
18825 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
18826 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
18827 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
18828 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
18830 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
18831 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
18832 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
18833 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
18834 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
18835 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
18836 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
18837 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
18839 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18840 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
18841 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
18843 - Set the severity correctly when testing
18844 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
18845 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
18846 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
18847 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
18849 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18850 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
18851 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
18853 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
18854 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
18855 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
18856 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
18857 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
18860 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
18861 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
18863 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
18864 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18865 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
18866 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
18867 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
18870 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
18871 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
18872 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
18873 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
18874 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
18875 Closes ticket 14922.
18877 o Removed features:
18878 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
18879 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
18880 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
18881 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
18882 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
18883 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
18884 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
18885 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
18886 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
18887 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
18888 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
18891 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18892 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18893 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18894 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18895 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18897 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18898 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18900 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18901 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18902 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18903 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18904 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18905 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18906 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18908 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18909 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18910 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18911 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18912 Resolves ticket 15515.
18915 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18916 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18917 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18918 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18919 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18921 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18922 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18924 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18925 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18926 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18927 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18928 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18929 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18930 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18932 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18933 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18934 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18935 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18936 Resolves ticket 15515.
18939 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18940 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18941 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18942 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18943 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18945 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18946 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18948 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18949 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18950 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18951 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18952 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18953 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18954 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18956 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18957 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18958 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18959 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18960 Resolves ticket 15515.
18961 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18962 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18963 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18967 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18968 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18970 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18971 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18972 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18973 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18974 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18975 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18976 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18977 bugs should be addressed.
18979 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18980 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18981 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18982 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18984 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
18985 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
18986 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
18988 o Major bugfixes (client):
18989 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
18990 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
18993 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18994 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18995 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18996 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18997 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18998 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19000 o Major bugfixes (portability):
19001 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
19002 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
19005 o Minor features (heartbeat):
19006 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
19007 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
19008 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
19009 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
19011 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19012 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19013 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19016 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19017 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19019 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19020 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19021 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19023 o Directory authority changes:
19024 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19025 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19026 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19027 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19028 closes ticket 14487.
19030 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19031 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19032 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19035 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19036 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19037 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19038 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19039 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19040 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19041 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19042 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19044 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19045 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19046 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19047 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19049 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19050 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19051 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19052 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19054 o Minor features (controller):
19055 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19056 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19057 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19059 o Minor features (geoip):
19060 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19061 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19064 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19065 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19066 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19067 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19068 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19069 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19072 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19073 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19074 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19076 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19077 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19078 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19079 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19080 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19081 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19082 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19083 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19085 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19086 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19087 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19089 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19090 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19091 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19092 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19093 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19097 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19098 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19099 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19102 o Directory authority changes:
19103 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19104 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19105 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19106 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19107 closes ticket 14487.
19109 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19110 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19111 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19112 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19114 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19115 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19116 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19117 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19118 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19119 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19120 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19121 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19123 o Minor features (geoip):
19124 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19125 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19128 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
19129 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
19130 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
19131 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
19132 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
19134 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19135 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19136 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19139 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19140 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19141 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
19142 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19143 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19144 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19145 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19146 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19148 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
19149 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
19150 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
19153 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19154 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
19155 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
19157 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
19158 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19159 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19160 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19161 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19163 o Minor features (controller):
19164 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
19165 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
19166 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
19168 o Minor features (geoip):
19169 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19170 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19173 o Minor features (logs):
19174 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
19177 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
19178 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
19179 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
19180 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19181 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
19182 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
19183 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
19184 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
19185 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
19187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19188 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
19190 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
19193 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19194 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
19195 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
19197 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
19198 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
19199 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
19200 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
19201 from "cypherpunks".
19202 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
19203 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
19206 o Directory authority IP change:
19207 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19208 closes ticket 14487.
19211 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19212 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19213 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19217 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
19218 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
19219 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
19220 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
19221 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
19222 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
19224 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
19225 the next version will be a release candidate.
19227 o Deprecated versions:
19228 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
19229 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
19231 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
19232 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
19233 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
19234 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
19235 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
19236 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
19238 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
19239 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
19240 Implements ticket 11485.
19242 o Major features (changed defaults):
19243 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
19244 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
19245 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
19246 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
19247 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
19248 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
19250 o Major features (directory system):
19251 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
19252 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
19253 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
19254 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
19255 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
19256 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
19257 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
19258 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
19259 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
19260 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
19261 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
19262 227. Closes ticket 10395.
19264 o Major features (guards):
19265 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
19266 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
19267 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
19268 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
19269 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
19271 o Major features (performance):
19272 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
19273 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
19274 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
19275 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
19276 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
19277 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
19278 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
19279 Implements ticket 9682.
19281 o Major features (relay):
19282 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
19283 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
19284 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
19286 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19287 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19288 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19289 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19291 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
19292 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
19293 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
19294 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
19295 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
19296 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
19297 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
19299 o Minor features (build):
19300 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
19301 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
19302 Resolves ticket 13037.
19304 o Minor features (controller):
19305 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
19306 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
19308 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
19309 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
19310 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
19311 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19312 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19313 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19315 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
19316 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
19317 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
19318 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
19319 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
19320 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
19321 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
19322 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
19323 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
19324 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
19326 o Minor features (geoip):
19327 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
19328 GeoLite2 Country database.
19330 o Minor features (guard nodes):
19331 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
19332 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
19333 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
19335 o Minor features (hidden service):
19336 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
19337 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
19338 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
19339 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
19340 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
19341 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
19342 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
19343 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
19345 o Minor features (interface):
19346 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
19347 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
19348 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
19350 o Minor features (logging):
19351 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
19352 Resolves ticket 6852.
19353 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
19354 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
19355 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
19357 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
19358 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
19360 o Minor features (stability):
19361 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
19362 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
19365 o Minor features (systemd):
19366 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
19367 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
19369 o Minor features (testing networks):
19370 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
19371 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
19372 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
19373 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
19374 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
19375 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
19377 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
19378 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
19379 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
19380 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
19381 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
19383 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
19384 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
19385 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
19386 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
19387 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
19389 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
19390 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
19391 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
19392 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19393 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
19394 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
19395 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
19396 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19398 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19399 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19400 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19401 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19402 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19403 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19404 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
19405 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
19407 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
19408 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
19409 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
19412 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
19413 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
19414 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
19415 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
19416 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19418 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
19419 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
19420 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
19421 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
19422 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19424 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19425 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
19426 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
19427 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
19428 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
19429 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
19430 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
19431 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
19432 Addresses ticket 14188.
19433 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19434 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19435 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19436 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
19437 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
19438 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
19439 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
19440 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
19441 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19443 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19444 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
19445 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
19446 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
19447 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
19448 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19449 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
19450 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19452 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19453 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19454 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19455 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19456 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19457 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
19458 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
19459 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19460 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
19461 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19462 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19463 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19464 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19466 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
19467 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
19468 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
19469 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
19470 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
19471 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19472 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
19473 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
19474 state, and key files.
19475 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
19476 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
19479 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19480 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
19481 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
19482 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
19483 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19484 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
19485 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
19486 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19487 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
19488 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
19489 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19491 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19492 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
19493 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19494 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
19496 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
19497 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19499 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
19500 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
19501 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
19502 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
19503 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
19504 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19506 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
19507 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
19508 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
19509 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19510 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
19511 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
19512 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19513 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
19514 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
19515 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19517 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19518 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
19519 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
19521 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
19522 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
19524 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
19525 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
19526 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
19527 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
19528 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19530 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
19531 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
19532 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
19533 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
19536 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
19537 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
19538 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
19541 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19542 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19543 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19545 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
19546 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
19547 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19548 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
19549 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
19550 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
19551 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
19553 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
19554 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
19557 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
19558 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
19559 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
19561 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
19562 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
19563 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
19566 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19567 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
19568 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
19569 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
19570 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
19571 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
19572 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
19573 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
19574 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
19576 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
19577 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
19579 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
19583 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19584 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19585 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19586 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19587 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19588 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19590 o Downgraded warnings:
19591 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19592 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19594 o Removed features:
19595 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19596 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19597 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19598 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19599 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19603 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
19604 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19605 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19606 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19607 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19608 (existing behavior).
19609 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19610 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19611 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19612 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19613 Closes ticket 14107.
19614 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19615 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19616 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19617 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19619 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
19620 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
19621 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19624 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
19625 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
19626 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
19627 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
19628 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
19629 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
19631 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
19632 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
19633 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
19634 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
19636 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
19637 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
19638 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
19639 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
19640 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
19641 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
19643 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
19644 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
19645 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
19646 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
19647 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
19648 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
19649 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
19652 o Major features (hidden services):
19653 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
19654 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
19655 Closes ticket 13667.
19656 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
19657 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
19658 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
19659 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
19660 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
19661 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
19662 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
19663 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
19664 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
19665 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
19666 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
19668 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
19669 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
19670 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
19671 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
19672 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
19673 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
19676 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19677 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
19678 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
19679 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
19680 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
19681 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
19683 o Directory authority changes:
19684 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19685 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19686 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19688 o Major removed features:
19689 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
19690 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
19691 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
19692 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
19694 o Minor features (client):
19695 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
19696 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
19697 Resolves ticket 13315.
19699 o Minor features (controller):
19700 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
19701 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
19704 o Minor features (geoip):
19705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19708 o Minor features (hidden services):
19709 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
19710 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
19711 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
19712 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
19713 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
19714 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
19716 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
19717 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
19718 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
19720 o Minor features (systemd):
19721 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
19722 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
19723 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
19724 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
19726 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
19727 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
19728 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
19729 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
19730 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
19733 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19734 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19735 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19736 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19737 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19739 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
19740 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
19741 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
19744 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
19745 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
19746 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
19747 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
19748 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
19750 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
19751 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
19752 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19754 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19755 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
19756 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
19757 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
19758 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
19760 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
19761 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
19764 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19765 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
19766 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
19767 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
19768 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
19769 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19770 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
19771 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
19772 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19773 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
19774 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
19775 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
19776 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
19777 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
19780 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19781 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
19782 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
19783 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
19784 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
19785 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
19787 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19788 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
19789 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
19790 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
19792 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
19793 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19795 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19796 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
19797 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
19798 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
19801 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
19802 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
19803 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
19804 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
19805 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
19806 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
19808 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
19809 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
19810 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
19811 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
19812 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19813 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
19814 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
19815 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
19816 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
19817 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
19818 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
19819 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
19820 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
19821 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
19822 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
19823 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
19824 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
19825 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
19826 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
19827 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19828 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
19829 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
19830 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
19831 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
19832 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
19833 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
19834 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
19835 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19836 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
19837 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
19838 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
19839 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
19841 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
19842 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
19843 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
19844 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
19845 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19847 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19848 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
19849 with a function instead.
19850 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
19851 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
19852 Closes ticket 13172.
19853 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
19854 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
19855 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19856 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19857 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19858 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19859 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19860 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19861 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19862 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19863 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19864 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19868 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19869 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19870 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19871 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19872 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19873 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19874 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19875 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19876 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19877 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19878 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19879 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19882 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19883 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19884 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19885 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19886 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19887 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19889 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19893 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
19894 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
19895 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
19896 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
19897 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
19898 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
19899 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
19900 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
19901 of introducing infinite download loops.
19903 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
19904 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
19905 with 0.2.5.x for now.
19907 o New compiler and system requirements:
19908 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
19909 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
19910 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
19911 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
19913 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
19914 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
19915 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
19916 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
19917 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
19918 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
19919 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
19920 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
19921 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
19923 o Removed platform support:
19924 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19925 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19926 Closes ticket 11446.
19928 o Major features (bridges):
19929 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
19930 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
19931 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
19934 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
19935 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
19936 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
19937 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
19940 o Major features (directory system):
19941 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
19942 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
19943 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
19944 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
19946 o Major features (sample torrc):
19947 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
19948 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
19949 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
19950 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
19951 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
19952 generally useful "sample torrc".
19954 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19955 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
19956 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19958 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
19959 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
19960 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
19961 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
19962 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19964 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
19965 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
19966 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
19967 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
19969 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
19970 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
19971 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
19972 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
19973 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
19974 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
19977 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
19978 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
19979 document. Implements feature 10427.
19981 o Minor features (client):
19982 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
19983 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
19984 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
19985 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
19987 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19988 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
19989 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
19990 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
19991 argument more than once.
19992 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
19993 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
19994 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
19995 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
19996 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
19997 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
19999 o Minor features (logging):
20000 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
20001 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
20002 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
20003 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
20004 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
20005 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
20006 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
20007 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
20008 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
20010 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
20011 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
20012 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
20013 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
20015 o Minor features (relay):
20016 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
20017 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
20018 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
20020 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
20021 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
20022 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
20023 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
20025 o Minor features (testing networks):
20026 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
20027 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
20028 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
20029 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
20030 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
20033 o Minor features (validation):
20034 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
20035 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
20036 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
20037 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
20038 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
20039 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
20040 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
20041 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
20043 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
20044 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
20045 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
20046 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20048 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20049 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
20050 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
20051 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20053 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
20054 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
20055 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
20057 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
20058 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
20059 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
20061 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
20062 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20063 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
20064 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
20065 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20066 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
20067 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20069 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20070 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
20071 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
20072 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20073 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
20074 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20075 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
20076 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
20077 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
20079 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
20080 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
20081 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
20082 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
20083 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
20085 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
20086 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
20087 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
20089 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20090 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
20091 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
20092 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
20093 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
20095 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
20096 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
20097 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
20098 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20099 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
20100 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
20101 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20102 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
20103 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
20104 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
20105 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
20108 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
20109 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
20110 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
20111 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
20112 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20114 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20115 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
20116 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20117 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
20118 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
20121 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
20122 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
20123 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20124 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
20125 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
20126 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20128 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20129 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
20130 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
20131 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20133 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
20134 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
20135 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
20136 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20138 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
20139 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
20140 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
20141 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
20144 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
20145 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
20146 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20149 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
20150 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20151 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
20152 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
20153 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
20156 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20157 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
20158 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
20160 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
20161 Resolves ticket 12205.
20162 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
20163 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
20164 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
20165 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
20167 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
20168 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
20169 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
20171 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
20172 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
20174 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
20175 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
20176 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
20177 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
20178 or_options_t structure.
20181 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
20182 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
20183 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
20184 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
20187 o Removed features:
20188 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
20189 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
20190 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
20191 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
20192 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
20193 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
20194 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
20195 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
20196 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
20198 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
20199 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
20201 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
20202 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
20203 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
20204 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
20205 anymore, and ignore it.
20208 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
20209 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
20210 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
20211 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20212 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
20213 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
20214 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
20215 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
20216 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
20217 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
20218 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
20219 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
20221 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
20222 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
20223 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
20225 o Distribution (systemd):
20226 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
20227 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
20228 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
20229 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
20230 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20232 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
20233 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
20235 o Removed features (directory authorities):
20236 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
20237 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
20238 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
20239 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
20240 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
20241 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
20242 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
20243 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
20244 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
20246 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
20247 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
20248 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
20249 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
20252 o Testing (test-network.sh):
20253 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
20254 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
20256 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
20258 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
20259 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
20260 Partially implements ticket 13161.
20263 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
20264 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
20266 It adds several new security features, including improved
20267 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
20268 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
20269 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
20270 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
20271 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
20272 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
20273 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
20274 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
20275 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
20276 and features mentioned below.
20278 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
20279 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
20281 o Deprecated versions:
20282 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
20283 attention for some while.
20286 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
20287 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
20288 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20289 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20290 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20291 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
20293 o Major security fixes:
20294 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20295 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20296 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20298 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
20299 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20300 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20301 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20304 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
20305 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
20306 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
20307 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20309 o Compilation fixes:
20310 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
20311 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
20312 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
20314 o Downgraded warnings:
20315 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
20316 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
20319 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20320 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20321 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20322 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20323 (which does affect Tor).
20325 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20326 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20327 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20328 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20330 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20331 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20332 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20333 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20336 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
20337 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
20338 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20339 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20340 the directory authorities.
20343 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20344 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20345 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20346 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20347 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20348 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20349 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20350 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20351 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20352 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20353 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20354 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20356 o Directory authority changes:
20357 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20360 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20361 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20362 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20363 the directory authorities.
20366 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20367 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20368 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20369 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20370 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20371 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20372 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20373 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20374 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20375 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20376 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20377 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20379 o Directory authority changes:
20380 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20382 o Minor features (geoip):
20383 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20387 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
20388 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
20389 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
20390 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
20391 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
20393 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
20394 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
20395 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
20396 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
20397 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
20398 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
20399 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20400 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
20401 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
20402 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
20403 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
20404 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
20405 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
20406 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20407 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
20408 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
20410 o Major bugfixes (relay):
20411 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
20412 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20413 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20414 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
20415 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
20416 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
20417 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20419 o Minor features (bridge):
20420 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
20421 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
20423 o Minor features (geoip):
20424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20427 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20428 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
20429 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
20430 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
20431 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
20432 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
20433 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20434 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
20435 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
20436 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
20437 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
20438 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
20439 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
20440 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
20441 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
20443 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
20444 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
20445 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20446 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
20447 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
20449 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20450 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
20451 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20452 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
20453 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
20456 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20457 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
20458 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20459 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
20460 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20461 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
20462 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
20463 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20464 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
20465 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
20466 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
20469 o Distribution (systemd):
20470 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20471 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20472 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20473 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20474 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20475 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20476 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20477 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20478 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20482 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20483 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20485 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20489 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
20490 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
20491 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
20492 us closer to a release candidate.
20494 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
20495 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20496 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20497 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20498 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20500 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
20501 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20502 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20503 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20504 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20505 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20506 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20507 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20508 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20512 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
20513 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
20514 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
20515 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
20516 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
20517 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
20518 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
20519 to build circuits".
20522 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
20523 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
20524 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
20525 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
20526 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
20527 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
20528 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
20529 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20531 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
20533 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
20534 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20535 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20536 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20537 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20538 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20539 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20540 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20541 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20542 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20545 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
20546 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
20547 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
20548 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
20550 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
20551 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
20552 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
20555 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20556 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20557 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20558 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20561 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20562 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20563 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20564 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20565 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20566 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20567 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20568 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20569 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20570 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20573 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20574 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20575 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20576 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20577 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20578 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20579 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20580 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20584 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20585 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20586 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20587 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20588 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20589 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20590 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20591 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20592 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20593 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20594 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20595 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20596 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20599 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20603 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
20604 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
20605 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
20606 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
20607 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
20608 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
20611 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
20612 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
20613 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
20614 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
20615 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
20616 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
20617 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
20618 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
20619 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
20620 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
20621 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
20622 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
20623 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20625 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
20626 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20627 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20628 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20631 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
20632 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
20633 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
20635 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
20636 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
20637 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
20638 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
20639 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
20640 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
20641 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
20642 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
20643 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
20644 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
20645 router's identity is not forgeable.
20647 o Major bugfixes (relay):
20648 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
20649 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
20650 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
20651 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
20652 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
20653 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
20654 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
20655 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
20656 bugfix on every version of Tor.
20658 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
20659 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
20660 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
20661 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
20664 o Minor features (diagnostic):
20665 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
20666 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
20667 help diagnose bug 7164.
20668 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
20669 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
20670 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
20671 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
20672 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
20674 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
20675 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
20676 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
20677 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
20678 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
20679 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
20680 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
20682 o Minor features (security, memory management):
20683 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
20684 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
20685 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
20686 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
20687 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
20688 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
20690 o Minor features (security):
20691 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
20692 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
20693 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
20694 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
20696 o Minor features (build):
20697 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
20698 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
20699 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
20701 o Minor features (other):
20702 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20705 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
20706 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
20707 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
20708 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20709 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20711 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
20712 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
20713 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
20714 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
20715 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
20716 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
20717 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
20718 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
20719 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20720 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
20721 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
20722 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
20724 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20725 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
20726 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20727 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
20728 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
20729 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
20730 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
20731 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
20732 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
20733 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
20734 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20735 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
20736 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
20737 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
20738 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
20739 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
20740 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
20741 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
20744 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
20745 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
20746 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
20747 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
20748 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
20749 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
20750 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20752 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
20753 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
20754 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20755 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
20756 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20757 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
20758 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20759 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
20760 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
20762 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
20763 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
20765 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
20766 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
20768 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
20769 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
20770 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20771 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
20772 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
20773 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20774 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
20775 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
20776 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
20778 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
20779 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
20780 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
20781 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
20782 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
20783 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20784 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
20785 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
20786 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20787 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
20788 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
20789 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20790 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
20791 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
20792 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
20793 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
20794 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
20795 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20797 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20798 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
20799 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
20800 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
20801 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
20802 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20803 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
20804 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
20805 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
20808 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20809 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
20810 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
20811 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
20812 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20814 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20815 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
20816 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
20817 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
20819 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
20820 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
20821 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
20822 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20823 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
20824 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
20825 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
20826 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
20828 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20829 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
20830 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
20831 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
20834 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
20835 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
20836 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
20837 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
20838 versions. Found by "skruffy".
20839 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
20840 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
20841 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
20844 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
20845 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
20846 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
20847 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
20850 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
20851 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
20852 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
20853 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
20855 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
20856 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
20857 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
20859 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
20860 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
20861 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20863 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20864 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
20865 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20866 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
20867 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
20871 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20872 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20873 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20874 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20877 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20878 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20879 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20880 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20882 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20883 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20885 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20886 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20887 caches don't get confused.
20890 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20891 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20892 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20893 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20894 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20897 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20898 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
20899 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20900 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20901 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20902 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20906 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20907 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20908 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20909 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20910 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20911 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20912 of RAM, and several others.
20914 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20915 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20916 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20917 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20918 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20920 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20921 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20922 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20923 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20926 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20927 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20928 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20929 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20930 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20931 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20932 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20933 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20934 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20935 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20936 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20937 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20938 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20939 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20940 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20941 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20942 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20943 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20944 Resolves ticket 11438.
20946 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20947 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20948 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20949 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20950 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20951 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20953 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20954 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20955 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20957 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20958 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20959 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20961 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20962 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20963 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20964 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20966 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20967 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20968 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20970 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20971 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20972 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20975 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20976 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20977 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20978 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20981 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20982 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20983 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20984 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20986 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20987 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20988 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20989 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20991 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20992 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20993 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20997 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
20998 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
20999 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
21000 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
21001 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
21002 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
21003 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
21004 the Linux sandbox code.
21006 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
21007 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
21008 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
21010 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
21011 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
21013 o Major features (security):
21014 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
21015 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
21016 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
21017 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
21018 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
21019 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
21020 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
21021 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
21023 o Major features (relay performance):
21024 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
21025 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
21026 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
21027 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
21028 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
21029 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
21030 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
21031 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
21032 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
21033 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
21035 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
21036 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
21037 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
21038 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
21039 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
21040 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
21041 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
21043 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
21044 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
21046 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
21047 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
21048 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
21049 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
21050 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
21051 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
21052 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21053 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
21054 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
21055 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
21056 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
21057 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
21058 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
21059 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
21060 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
21061 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
21062 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
21063 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
21064 Resolves ticket 11438.
21066 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
21067 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
21068 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
21069 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21071 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
21072 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
21073 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
21074 10267; patch from "yurivict".
21075 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
21076 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
21077 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
21078 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
21079 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
21080 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
21082 o Minor features (security):
21083 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
21084 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
21085 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
21086 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
21089 o Minor features (log verbosity):
21090 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
21091 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
21092 Resolves ticket 5286.
21093 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
21094 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
21095 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
21096 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
21097 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
21098 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
21099 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
21100 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
21101 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
21103 o Minor features (relay):
21104 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
21105 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
21106 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
21108 o Minor features (controller):
21109 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
21110 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
21112 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
21113 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
21114 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
21116 o Minor features (bridge client):
21117 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
21118 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
21119 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
21121 o Minor features (diagnostic):
21122 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
21123 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
21124 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
21125 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
21126 still referenced by a live node_t object.
21128 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
21129 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
21130 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
21131 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
21133 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
21134 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
21135 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
21136 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
21139 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
21140 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
21141 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21143 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
21144 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
21145 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
21146 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21147 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
21148 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
21149 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21151 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
21152 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
21153 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
21154 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21155 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
21156 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
21157 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21158 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
21159 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
21160 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
21161 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21162 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
21163 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
21166 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
21167 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
21168 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
21169 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
21170 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
21172 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
21173 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
21174 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
21177 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21178 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
21179 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21181 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
21182 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
21183 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21185 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21186 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
21187 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
21188 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21190 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
21191 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
21192 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21193 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
21194 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
21196 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
21197 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
21198 early. Fixes bug 10081.
21200 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
21201 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
21202 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21203 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
21204 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21205 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
21206 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
21207 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
21209 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
21210 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
21211 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
21212 should never have affected anyone in practice.
21214 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21215 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
21216 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21218 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
21219 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
21220 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
21221 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
21222 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
21223 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
21224 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
21225 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
21226 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
21227 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
21228 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
21229 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
21230 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
21231 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
21233 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
21234 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
21235 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
21236 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
21237 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
21238 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
21239 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
21240 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
21244 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
21245 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
21246 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
21247 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21248 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
21249 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21250 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
21251 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
21253 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
21255 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21256 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
21257 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
21258 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
21259 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
21262 o Deprecated versions:
21263 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
21264 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
21265 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
21266 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
21269 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
21270 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
21271 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
21272 Patch from Dana Koch.
21275 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
21276 Resolves ticket 11070.
21279 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
21280 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
21281 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
21282 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
21283 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
21286 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
21287 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
21289 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
21290 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
21291 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
21292 streams attached to each circuit.
21294 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
21295 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
21296 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
21297 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
21298 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
21299 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
21300 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
21301 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
21302 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
21303 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
21304 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
21305 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
21306 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
21308 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
21309 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
21310 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
21312 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
21313 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
21314 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
21315 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
21316 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
21317 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
21318 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
21319 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
21320 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
21322 o Minor features (other):
21323 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
21324 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
21325 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
21326 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
21327 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
21328 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
21329 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
21330 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
21331 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21334 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
21335 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
21336 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
21337 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21338 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21339 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21340 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21341 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21343 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21344 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
21345 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
21346 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
21347 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21348 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
21349 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
21350 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
21352 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
21353 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
21354 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
21355 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
21356 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
21357 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21358 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
21359 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
21360 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21361 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
21362 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
21363 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21365 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
21366 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
21367 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21368 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
21369 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
21370 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
21371 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
21372 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
21373 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21374 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
21375 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
21376 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
21377 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
21378 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
21380 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
21381 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
21383 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
21384 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
21385 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
21386 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
21387 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
21388 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
21389 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21390 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
21391 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
21392 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
21393 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
21394 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21395 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
21396 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
21398 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
21399 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
21400 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
21401 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21404 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
21405 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21406 the rest of bug 10841.
21409 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
21410 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
21411 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
21412 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
21413 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
21414 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
21415 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
21416 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
21417 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
21418 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
21419 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
21420 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21421 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
21422 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
21423 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21425 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21426 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
21427 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
21429 o Test infrastructure:
21430 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
21431 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
21432 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
21433 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21436 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
21437 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
21438 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
21439 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
21441 o Major features (client security):
21442 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
21443 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
21444 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
21445 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
21446 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
21447 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
21450 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
21451 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
21452 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
21453 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21455 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21456 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
21457 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
21458 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
21459 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
21462 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
21463 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
21465 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
21466 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
21467 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
21468 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
21469 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
21470 GeoLite2 Country database.
21473 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
21474 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
21475 bugfix on every released Tor.
21476 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21477 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21478 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21479 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21480 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
21481 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
21482 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
21483 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21484 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21485 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21486 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21487 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21488 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21489 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21490 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21492 o Documentation fixes:
21493 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
21494 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21497 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
21498 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
21499 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
21500 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
21501 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
21502 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
21503 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
21504 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
21506 o Major features (client security):
21507 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
21508 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
21509 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
21510 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
21511 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
21512 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
21513 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
21514 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
21515 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
21516 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
21517 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
21518 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
21520 o Major features (bridges):
21521 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
21522 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
21523 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
21524 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
21525 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
21526 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
21527 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
21528 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
21531 o Major features (other):
21532 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
21533 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
21534 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
21535 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
21536 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
21537 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
21538 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
21539 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
21540 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
21541 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
21542 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
21543 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
21546 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
21547 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
21548 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21549 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
21550 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
21551 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
21552 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21554 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
21555 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
21556 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
21557 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21558 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
21559 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
21560 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
21561 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
21562 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
21564 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
21565 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21566 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
21567 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
21568 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
21569 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21571 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21572 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
21573 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
21574 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
21575 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
21576 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
21579 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
21580 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
21581 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
21582 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
21583 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
21584 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
21585 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
21587 o Minor features (security):
21588 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
21589 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
21592 o Minor features (config options and command line):
21593 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
21594 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
21595 Implements ticket 10060.
21596 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
21597 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
21598 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
21600 o Minor features (controller):
21601 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
21602 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
21603 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
21604 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
21605 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
21608 o Minor features (build):
21609 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
21610 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
21611 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
21612 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
21613 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
21614 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
21615 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
21617 o Minor features (testing):
21618 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
21619 the unit test scripts.
21620 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
21621 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
21622 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
21623 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
21625 o Minor features (log messages):
21626 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
21627 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
21628 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
21629 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
21630 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
21631 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
21632 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
21633 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
21634 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
21635 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21637 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21638 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
21639 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
21640 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
21641 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
21642 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
21643 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
21644 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21645 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21646 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21648 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21649 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
21650 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
21651 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
21654 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21655 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
21656 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
21657 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
21658 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21660 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21661 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
21662 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
21663 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
21664 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
21665 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
21666 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
21668 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
21669 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
21670 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
21671 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
21672 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
21673 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
21674 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21675 Reported by "mr-4".
21676 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
21677 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
21678 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
21679 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21681 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
21682 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
21683 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
21684 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
21685 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
21686 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
21687 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
21688 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
21689 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
21690 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
21691 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21693 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21694 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
21695 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
21696 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
21697 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
21698 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
21699 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
21700 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
21701 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
21702 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
21704 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21705 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
21706 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
21707 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
21710 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21711 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
21712 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
21713 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
21714 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
21715 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
21717 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
21718 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21720 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21721 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
21722 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
21723 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21725 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21726 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
21727 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
21728 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21729 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
21730 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
21731 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
21732 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21733 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
21734 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
21735 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
21736 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
21737 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
21738 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
21740 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
21741 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
21742 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21743 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
21744 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
21745 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
21747 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21748 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
21749 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21750 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
21751 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
21752 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
21753 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
21754 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
21755 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
21756 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21757 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
21758 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21760 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21761 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21762 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21763 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21764 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21765 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21766 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
21767 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
21768 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21769 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21770 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21771 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21772 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21773 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21774 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21775 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21778 o Removed code and features:
21779 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
21780 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
21781 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
21782 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
21783 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
21784 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
21786 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
21787 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
21788 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
21789 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
21790 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
21791 part of a fix for bug 10841.
21793 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21794 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
21795 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
21796 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
21797 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
21798 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
21799 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
21800 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
21801 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
21802 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
21803 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
21806 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
21807 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
21808 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
21809 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
21810 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21812 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
21813 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21814 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21815 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21816 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21817 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21818 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21821 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
21822 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
21823 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
21826 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
21827 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
21828 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
21829 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
21830 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
21831 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
21832 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
21834 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
21835 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
21838 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
21839 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
21840 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21841 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
21842 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
21843 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
21844 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
21845 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
21847 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
21848 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21849 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
21850 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
21851 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
21852 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
21855 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
21856 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21857 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
21858 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
21859 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
21862 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
21863 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
21864 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
21865 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
21866 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
21867 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
21868 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
21869 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
21871 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
21872 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
21873 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
21874 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
21875 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
21876 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
21877 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
21878 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
21879 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
21880 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
21881 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
21882 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
21883 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
21884 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
21885 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
21886 security, and privacy fixes.
21889 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
21890 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
21891 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
21892 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
21895 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
21896 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
21897 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
21898 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
21899 them to solve bug 6033.)
21902 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
21903 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
21904 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
21905 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
21906 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
21907 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21908 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
21909 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
21911 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
21912 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
21913 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
21914 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21916 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
21917 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
21918 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21919 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
21920 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
21921 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
21922 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
21923 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
21924 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
21925 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21926 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
21927 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
21929 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
21930 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21931 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21932 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21933 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21934 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21935 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
21936 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
21937 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21938 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21939 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21940 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21941 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21942 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21943 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21944 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21947 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
21948 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
21949 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
21950 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
21951 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
21952 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
21953 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
21954 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
21955 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
21956 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
21957 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
21958 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
21959 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
21960 Implements part of proposal 222.
21962 o Minor features (other):
21963 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
21964 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
21965 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
21966 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
21967 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
21968 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
21969 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
21970 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
21971 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21973 o Documentation fixes:
21974 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21975 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21976 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21977 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21978 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21979 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21982 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
21983 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
21984 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
21985 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
21986 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
21987 release of the new branch.
21989 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
21990 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21991 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
21993 o Major features (security):
21994 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
21995 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
21996 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
21997 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
21998 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
21999 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
22000 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
22001 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
22002 Google Summer of Code.
22003 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
22004 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
22005 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
22006 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
22007 them to solve bug 6033.)
22009 o Major features (other):
22010 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
22011 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
22012 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
22013 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
22014 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
22016 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
22017 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
22018 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
22019 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
22020 Implements ticket 8530.
22021 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
22022 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
22025 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
22026 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
22027 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
22028 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
22029 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
22030 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22031 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
22032 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
22033 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22034 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
22035 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
22036 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
22037 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22040 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
22041 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
22042 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
22043 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
22044 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
22045 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
22046 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
22047 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
22048 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
22049 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
22053 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
22054 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
22055 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
22056 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
22057 invoking the other functions it calls.
22058 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
22059 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
22060 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
22061 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
22063 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
22064 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
22065 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
22066 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
22067 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
22068 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
22069 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
22070 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
22071 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
22072 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
22073 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
22074 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
22075 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
22076 Implements part of proposal 222.
22078 o Minor features (config options):
22079 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
22080 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
22081 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
22082 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
22083 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
22084 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
22085 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
22086 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
22087 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
22088 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
22089 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
22090 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
22091 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
22092 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
22093 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
22094 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
22095 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
22098 o Minor features (build):
22099 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
22100 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
22101 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
22102 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
22103 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
22106 o Minor features (other):
22107 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
22108 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
22109 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
22110 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
22111 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
22112 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
22113 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
22114 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
22115 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
22116 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
22117 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
22118 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
22119 Closes ticket 8109.
22120 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22123 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
22124 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
22125 bugfix on every released Tor.
22126 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
22127 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
22128 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22129 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
22130 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
22131 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
22133 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
22134 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
22135 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
22136 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22137 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
22138 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
22139 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
22140 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22142 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
22143 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
22144 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
22145 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
22146 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
22148 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
22149 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22151 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
22152 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
22153 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
22155 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
22156 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
22157 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
22158 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
22159 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22161 o Minor code improvements:
22162 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
22163 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
22165 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
22166 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
22167 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
22168 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
22169 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
22171 o Removed features:
22172 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
22173 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
22174 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
22175 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
22177 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22178 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
22179 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
22180 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
22181 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
22182 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
22183 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
22184 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
22185 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
22186 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
22187 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
22188 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
22189 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
22190 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
22191 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
22192 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
22195 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
22196 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22197 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
22198 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
22199 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
22200 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
22201 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
22204 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
22205 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
22206 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
22207 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
22208 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
22209 Implements ticket 9574.
22212 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
22213 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
22214 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22215 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
22216 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
22217 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
22218 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
22219 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
22220 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22221 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
22222 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
22223 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
22227 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
22228 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
22229 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
22230 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
22232 o Minor fixes (config options):
22233 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
22234 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
22235 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
22236 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
22237 message is logged at notice, not at info.
22238 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
22239 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
22240 or we just won't work.)
22243 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
22244 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
22245 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
22246 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22249 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
22250 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22251 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
22254 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
22255 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
22256 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22257 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
22258 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22259 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
22260 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
22262 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
22263 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22264 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
22265 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
22268 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
22269 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
22270 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22271 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
22272 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
22273 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
22274 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
22275 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
22276 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
22277 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
22278 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22279 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
22280 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22283 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22286 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
22287 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22288 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
22289 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
22292 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
22293 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
22294 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22297 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
22298 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
22299 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
22302 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
22303 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
22304 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22307 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
22308 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
22309 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
22310 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
22311 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
22312 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
22314 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
22315 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
22316 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
22317 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
22318 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
22319 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22321 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
22322 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
22323 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22326 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
22327 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
22328 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
22329 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
22330 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
22332 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
22333 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
22334 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
22335 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
22336 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
22337 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
22338 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
22340 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
22341 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
22342 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
22344 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
22345 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
22349 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
22350 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
22351 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
22353 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
22354 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
22355 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
22356 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
22357 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
22358 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
22360 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
22361 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
22362 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
22363 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
22364 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
22365 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
22366 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22369 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
22370 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
22371 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
22372 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
22373 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
22374 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
22375 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22376 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
22377 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22378 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
22379 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
22380 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22381 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
22382 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
22384 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
22385 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
22386 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
22387 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
22390 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22391 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
22392 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
22393 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
22394 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
22395 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
22397 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
22398 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
22402 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
22403 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
22404 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
22405 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
22406 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
22407 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
22408 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22410 o Removed documentation:
22411 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
22412 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
22414 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22415 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
22416 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
22417 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
22420 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
22421 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
22422 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
22423 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
22424 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
22425 variety of other issues.
22428 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
22429 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
22430 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
22431 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
22432 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
22433 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22434 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
22435 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
22437 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
22438 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
22439 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
22441 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
22442 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
22443 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
22444 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22445 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
22446 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
22447 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22449 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
22450 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
22451 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
22452 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
22453 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
22454 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
22455 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
22456 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22457 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
22458 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
22459 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
22460 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
22461 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22462 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
22463 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
22464 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
22465 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
22466 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
22467 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
22468 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
22469 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22471 o Major bugfixes (other):
22472 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
22473 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
22474 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
22475 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22478 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
22479 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
22480 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
22481 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
22483 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
22484 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
22486 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22488 o Minor features (build):
22489 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
22490 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
22492 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
22493 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
22495 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
22496 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
22497 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
22500 o Minor bugfixes (build):
22501 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
22502 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22503 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22504 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
22505 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
22506 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22507 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
22508 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
22509 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22510 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
22511 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
22512 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
22513 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
22516 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
22517 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
22518 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
22519 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
22520 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
22521 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
22522 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
22523 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
22524 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
22525 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
22526 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
22527 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
22528 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
22529 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22530 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22532 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22533 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
22534 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22535 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
22536 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
22537 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
22538 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
22539 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22540 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
22541 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
22542 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
22543 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
22544 Should help resolve bug 8235.
22545 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
22546 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
22547 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
22548 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22550 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
22551 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
22552 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
22553 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
22554 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
22555 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
22556 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
22557 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
22560 o Minor bugfixes (config):
22561 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
22562 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
22564 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
22565 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
22566 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22567 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
22568 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
22569 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
22570 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22571 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
22572 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
22573 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22574 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
22575 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
22576 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22577 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
22578 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
22581 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
22582 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
22583 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
22584 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
22585 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
22586 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
22587 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
22588 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
22590 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
22591 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
22592 or at least make it more diagnosable.
22593 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
22594 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
22595 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
22596 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22598 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
22599 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
22600 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
22601 the relaxed timeout log message.
22602 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
22603 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
22604 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
22606 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
22607 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
22608 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22609 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
22610 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22611 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
22612 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
22615 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
22616 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
22617 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
22618 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
22619 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22620 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
22621 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22622 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
22623 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22624 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
22625 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
22626 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
22627 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22628 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
22629 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
22630 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
22631 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22633 o Documentation fixes:
22634 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
22635 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
22636 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
22637 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
22638 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
22639 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
22640 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
22641 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
22644 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
22645 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
22649 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
22650 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
22651 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
22652 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
22654 o Major features (directory authorities):
22655 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
22656 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
22657 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
22658 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
22659 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
22660 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
22661 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
22662 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
22663 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
22664 Implements ticket 8151.
22666 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22667 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
22668 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
22669 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
22670 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
22672 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22673 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
22674 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
22675 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
22676 whether authentication information is present, causing all
22677 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
22678 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
22680 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
22681 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
22682 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
22683 bugs 1913 and 1992.
22684 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
22685 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
22686 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
22687 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
22688 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
22689 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
22690 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
22691 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
22692 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
22693 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
22694 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
22695 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
22696 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
22697 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
22698 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
22699 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
22700 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
22701 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
22704 o Minor features (portability):
22705 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
22706 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22707 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
22708 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
22709 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
22710 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
22711 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
22712 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22714 o Minor features (other):
22715 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
22716 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
22717 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
22718 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
22719 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
22720 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
22721 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
22722 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
22724 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22726 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22727 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
22728 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
22729 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
22730 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
22731 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22732 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
22733 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
22734 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
22735 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
22737 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
22738 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
22739 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
22740 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22742 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22743 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
22744 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
22745 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
22746 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
22747 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
22748 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
22750 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
22751 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
22752 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
22753 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
22754 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
22756 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
22757 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
22758 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
22759 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
22761 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22762 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
22763 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
22766 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
22767 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
22768 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22769 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
22771 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
22772 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22773 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
22774 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22776 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
22777 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
22778 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
22779 this is CID 718634.
22780 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
22781 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
22782 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
22783 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
22785 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
22786 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
22787 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22788 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
22789 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
22790 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
22791 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22793 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22794 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
22798 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
22799 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
22800 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
22801 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
22802 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
22805 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
22806 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
22807 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
22808 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
22810 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
22811 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
22812 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
22816 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
22817 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
22818 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
22819 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
22820 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
22821 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
22822 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
22823 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
22824 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
22825 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
22826 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
22827 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
22828 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
22831 o Major features (relay):
22832 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
22833 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
22834 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
22835 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
22836 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
22837 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
22838 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
22840 o Major features (portability):
22841 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
22842 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
22843 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
22844 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
22845 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22848 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
22849 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
22850 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
22851 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
22852 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
22853 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
22855 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
22856 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
22857 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
22858 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
22859 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
22860 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
22861 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
22862 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
22864 o Minor features (path selection):
22865 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
22866 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
22867 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
22868 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
22869 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
22870 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
22871 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
22872 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
22873 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
22874 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
22875 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
22876 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
22877 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
22878 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
22879 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
22880 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
22881 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
22882 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
22883 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
22885 o Minor features (log messages):
22886 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
22887 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
22888 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
22889 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
22892 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
22893 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
22894 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22895 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
22896 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
22897 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
22898 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
22899 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
22900 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
22901 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22902 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
22903 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22905 o Build improvements:
22906 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
22907 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
22908 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
22909 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
22910 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
22911 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
22912 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
22913 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
22914 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
22915 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
22916 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
22917 than to perform erroneously.
22919 o Removed features:
22920 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
22921 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
22922 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
22924 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
22925 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
22926 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
22929 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22930 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
22932 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
22933 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
22937 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
22938 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
22939 work more robustly.
22942 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
22943 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
22944 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
22948 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
22949 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
22950 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
22951 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
22954 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
22955 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
22956 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
22957 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
22958 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
22959 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
22960 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
22961 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
22962 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
22963 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
22964 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
22965 closes ticket 7199.
22967 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
22968 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
22969 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
22970 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
22971 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
22972 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
22973 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
22974 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
22975 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
22976 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
22977 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
22979 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
22980 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
22981 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
22983 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
22984 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
22985 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
22987 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
22989 o Major features (better link encryption):
22990 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
22991 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
22992 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
22993 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
22994 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
22995 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
22998 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
22999 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
23000 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
23001 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
23002 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
23003 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
23004 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
23006 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
23007 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
23008 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
23009 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
23011 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
23014 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
23015 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
23016 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23019 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
23020 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
23021 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
23022 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
23023 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
23024 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
23025 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
23026 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23027 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23029 o Minor features (testing):
23030 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
23031 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
23032 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
23034 o Minor features (path bias detection):
23035 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
23036 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
23037 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
23038 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
23039 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
23040 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
23041 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
23042 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
23043 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
23044 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
23045 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
23046 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
23047 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
23048 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
23049 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
23050 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
23051 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
23052 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
23053 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
23054 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
23055 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
23056 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
23057 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
23058 detection capability loss.
23060 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23061 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
23062 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
23063 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
23064 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23065 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
23066 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
23067 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
23070 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23071 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
23072 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
23073 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
23074 and the different handshakes it supports.
23075 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
23076 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
23077 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
23078 any encoding is overkill.
23081 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
23082 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
23083 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
23084 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
23085 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
23086 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
23087 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
23088 and fixes a variety of other issues.
23090 o Major features (client resilience):
23091 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
23092 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
23093 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
23094 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
23095 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
23096 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
23097 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
23098 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
23099 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
23100 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
23101 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
23102 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
23103 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
23104 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
23105 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
23107 o Major features (IPv6):
23108 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
23109 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
23110 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
23111 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
23112 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
23113 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
23114 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
23115 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
23117 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
23118 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
23120 o Major features (geoip database):
23121 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
23122 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
23123 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
23124 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
23125 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
23126 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
23127 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
23128 Country database, as modified above.
23130 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
23131 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
23132 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
23133 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
23134 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
23135 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
23136 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
23137 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
23138 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
23139 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
23140 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
23141 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
23142 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
23143 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
23144 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
23145 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
23146 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
23149 o Major bugfixes (other):
23150 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
23151 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
23152 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
23153 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
23154 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
23155 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
23156 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
23157 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
23159 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
23160 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
23163 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
23164 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
23165 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
23166 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
23167 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
23168 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
23169 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
23170 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
23172 o Minor features (IPv6):
23173 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
23174 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
23175 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
23176 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
23177 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
23178 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
23179 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
23180 connect to the wrong addresses.
23181 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
23182 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
23183 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
23184 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
23188 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
23189 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
23190 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
23191 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
23192 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
23193 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
23194 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
23196 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
23197 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
23198 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
23201 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
23202 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
23204 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23205 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
23206 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
23207 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
23208 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
23211 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
23212 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
23213 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
23214 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
23215 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
23216 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
23217 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
23218 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
23220 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
23221 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
23222 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
23223 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
23224 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
23225 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
23226 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
23227 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
23228 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
23229 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
23230 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
23233 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
23234 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
23235 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
23236 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
23237 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
23238 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
23239 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
23240 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
23241 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
23242 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
23245 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
23246 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
23250 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
23251 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
23252 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
23253 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
23256 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
23257 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
23259 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
23260 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
23261 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
23262 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
23263 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
23264 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
23265 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
23266 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
23267 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
23268 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
23271 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
23273 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
23274 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
23275 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
23276 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
23277 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
23280 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
23281 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
23282 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23283 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
23284 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
23286 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
23287 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23288 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
23289 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
23290 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
23291 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
23292 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
23294 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
23295 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23296 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
23297 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
23298 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
23299 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23300 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
23301 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23303 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23304 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
23305 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
23306 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
23307 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
23308 present the same extensions.)
23311 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
23312 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
23313 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
23314 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
23315 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
23317 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23318 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
23319 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
23320 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
23322 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
23323 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
23324 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
23325 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23327 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23328 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
23329 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
23330 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
23331 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
23332 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
23333 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
23334 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
23335 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23337 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
23338 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
23339 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
23340 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
23341 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23344 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
23345 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
23346 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
23348 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23349 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
23351 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
23352 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
23356 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
23357 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
23358 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
23359 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
23362 o Major bugfixes (security):
23363 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
23364 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
23365 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
23367 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
23368 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
23369 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
23370 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23373 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
23374 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
23375 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
23376 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
23377 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
23378 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
23379 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
23380 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23383 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
23384 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
23385 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
23386 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23389 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
23390 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
23391 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
23392 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
23393 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
23394 scheduling algorithms.
23396 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23397 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
23398 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
23400 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23401 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
23402 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
23403 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
23404 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
23405 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
23406 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
23407 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
23408 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
23409 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
23410 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
23412 o Internal abstraction features:
23413 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
23414 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
23415 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
23416 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
23417 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
23418 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
23419 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
23420 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
23421 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
23422 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
23423 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
23424 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
23425 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
23426 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
23427 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
23428 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
23429 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
23431 o Required libraries:
23432 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
23433 strongly recommended.
23436 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
23437 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
23438 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
23439 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
23440 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
23441 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
23442 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
23443 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
23444 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
23446 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
23447 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
23448 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
23449 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
23450 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
23451 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
23452 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
23453 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23454 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
23455 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
23456 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
23457 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
23458 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
23459 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
23460 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23463 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
23464 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
23465 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
23466 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
23467 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
23468 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
23469 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
23470 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
23471 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
23472 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
23473 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
23474 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23475 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
23476 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
23477 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23478 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
23479 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
23480 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
23481 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
23483 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
23484 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
23485 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
23486 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
23487 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
23488 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
23489 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
23492 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
23493 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
23494 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
23495 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
23497 o New directory authorities:
23498 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
23499 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
23501 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
23502 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
23503 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
23504 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
23505 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
23506 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
23507 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
23508 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
23509 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
23510 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
23511 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
23514 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
23515 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
23516 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
23518 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23519 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
23520 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
23521 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23522 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
23523 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
23524 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23525 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
23526 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
23528 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23529 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
23530 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
23531 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
23532 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
23533 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
23534 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
23535 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
23536 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
23537 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
23538 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
23539 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
23540 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23541 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
23542 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
23543 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
23544 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
23545 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
23547 o Documentation fixes:
23548 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
23551 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
23552 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
23553 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
23554 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
23557 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23558 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23559 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23562 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
23563 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
23564 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
23565 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
23566 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
23567 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
23568 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
23569 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23571 o Security features:
23572 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
23573 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
23574 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
23575 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
23576 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
23577 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
23578 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
23579 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
23580 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
23584 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
23585 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
23586 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
23589 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
23590 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
23591 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23592 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
23593 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23594 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
23595 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
23596 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
23597 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
23598 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
23599 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23600 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
23601 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
23602 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
23604 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
23605 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23606 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
23607 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
23608 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23610 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
23611 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
23612 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
23613 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23614 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
23615 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
23616 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23617 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
23618 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
23619 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
23620 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
23621 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
23622 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
23623 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23624 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
23625 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
23626 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
23627 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
23628 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
23629 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
23631 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23632 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
23633 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
23634 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
23635 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
23636 testable, and a little less fragile too.
23637 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
23638 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23640 o Documentation fixes:
23641 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
23642 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
23646 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
23647 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
23651 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23652 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23653 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23656 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
23657 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
23661 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
23662 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
23666 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
23667 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
23668 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23669 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
23670 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
23671 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
23672 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
23676 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
23677 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
23678 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
23679 log messages less noisy.
23682 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
23683 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
23687 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
23688 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
23689 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
23690 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
23691 last time we raised it).
23694 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
23695 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
23697 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
23698 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
23699 part of ticket 6736.
23700 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
23701 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
23702 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
23706 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
23707 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
23708 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
23709 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
23710 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
23712 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
23713 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23714 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
23715 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
23716 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23717 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
23718 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
23719 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23720 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
23721 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23722 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
23723 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23725 o Removed features:
23726 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
23727 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
23728 bunch of compatibility code.
23730 o Code refactoring:
23731 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
23732 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
23733 the ORPort and the DirPort.
23736 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
23737 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
23738 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
23739 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
23741 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
23742 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
23743 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
23745 o Major features (bridges):
23746 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
23747 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
23748 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
23751 o Major features (IPv6):
23752 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
23753 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
23754 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
23755 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
23756 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
23757 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
23758 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
23759 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
23760 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
23762 o Major features (build):
23763 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
23764 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
23765 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
23766 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
23767 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
23768 fixes by Jim Meyering.
23769 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
23770 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
23771 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
23773 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
23774 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
23775 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
23776 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
23777 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
23778 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
23779 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
23780 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
23781 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
23782 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
23783 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
23785 o Minor features (streamlining);
23786 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
23787 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
23789 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
23790 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
23791 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
23792 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
23793 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
23794 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23796 o Minor features (controller):
23797 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
23799 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
23800 Implements ticket 4971.
23802 o Minor features (IPv6):
23803 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
23804 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
23805 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
23806 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
23807 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
23809 o Minor features (log messages):
23810 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
23811 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
23812 Resolves ticket 6758.
23813 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
23814 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
23815 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
23816 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23817 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
23818 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
23819 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
23821 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
23822 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
23823 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
23824 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
23825 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
23828 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23829 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
23830 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
23831 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
23832 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
23834 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
23835 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
23836 Implements ticket 5529.
23837 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
23838 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
23839 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
23840 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
23841 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
23842 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
23843 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
23844 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
23845 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
23846 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
23848 o New requirements:
23849 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
23850 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
23851 from a source distribution.)
23854 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
23855 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23856 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
23857 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
23858 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
23859 and cleans up other smaller issues.
23861 o Major bugfixes (security):
23862 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
23863 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
23864 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
23865 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
23866 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
23867 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
23868 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
23869 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
23870 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
23871 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
23872 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
23873 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23874 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
23875 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
23876 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
23877 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
23881 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
23882 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
23883 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
23884 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23885 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
23886 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
23887 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
23888 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
23889 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
23890 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23893 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
23894 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
23895 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
23896 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
23897 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23898 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
23899 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
23900 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
23901 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
23902 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
23903 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
23905 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
23906 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
23907 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
23909 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
23910 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
23911 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
23912 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
23913 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23914 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
23915 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
23916 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
23917 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23918 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
23919 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
23920 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
23921 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
23922 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
23925 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23926 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
23927 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
23928 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
23929 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23930 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
23931 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
23932 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
23933 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
23934 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
23935 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
23936 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
23937 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
23938 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
23939 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
23942 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
23943 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
23944 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
23945 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
23946 Resolves ticket 6732.
23949 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
23950 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
23951 attack that could in theory leak path information.
23954 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
23955 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
23956 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23957 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
23958 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
23959 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
23960 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
23961 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
23962 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
23963 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
23964 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
23965 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
23966 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
23967 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23970 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
23971 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
23972 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
23973 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
23976 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
23977 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
23978 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23979 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
23980 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
23981 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23982 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
23983 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
23984 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
23985 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
23986 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
23987 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
23988 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
23989 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
23990 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
23991 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
23992 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23995 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
23996 a little more useful.
23997 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
23998 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23999 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
24000 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
24001 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
24002 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
24003 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
24006 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
24007 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24008 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
24009 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24010 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
24011 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
24015 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
24016 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
24017 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
24018 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
24019 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
24022 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
24023 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
24024 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
24027 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
24029 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
24031 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24032 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
24033 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
24034 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
24035 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
24038 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
24039 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24040 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
24041 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
24042 since the beginning of Tor.
24045 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
24046 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
24047 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
24048 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
24049 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
24050 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
24051 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
24052 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24053 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
24054 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
24057 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
24058 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
24061 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
24062 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24063 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24064 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24067 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
24068 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24069 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
24070 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
24071 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
24072 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24074 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24075 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
24076 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
24077 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
24078 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
24079 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
24080 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24081 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
24082 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
24083 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
24084 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
24085 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
24086 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
24087 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24088 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
24089 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
24090 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24091 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
24092 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24094 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24095 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
24096 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
24098 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
24099 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24100 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
24101 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
24103 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
24104 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24105 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
24106 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24107 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
24108 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
24109 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24110 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
24111 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24112 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
24113 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24114 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
24115 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
24116 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24117 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
24118 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
24121 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
24122 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
24123 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
24124 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
24125 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
24128 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
24129 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
24130 options. Closes bug 4748.
24133 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
24134 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
24135 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
24136 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
24137 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
24141 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
24142 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
24144 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
24145 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
24146 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
24147 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
24148 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
24149 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
24150 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
24151 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
24152 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
24155 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
24156 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
24157 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
24158 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
24159 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
24160 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
24161 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
24162 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24165 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
24166 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
24167 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
24168 case for flushing marked connections.
24169 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
24170 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24171 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
24172 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
24173 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
24174 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
24175 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24176 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
24177 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24178 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
24179 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
24180 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
24181 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24182 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
24183 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
24184 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
24185 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24186 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
24187 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24188 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
24189 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
24190 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
24191 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24192 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
24193 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
24195 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
24196 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24197 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
24201 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
24202 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
24203 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
24204 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
24205 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
24206 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
24207 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
24208 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
24209 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
24210 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
24211 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
24212 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
24213 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
24214 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
24215 Addresses ticket 5458.
24216 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24218 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24219 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
24220 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
24223 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
24224 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
24225 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
24229 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
24230 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
24231 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
24232 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
24233 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
24234 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
24235 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24236 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
24237 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
24238 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
24239 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24242 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
24243 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
24246 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
24247 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
24250 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
24251 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
24252 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
24253 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
24254 that get us closer to a release candidate.
24256 o Major bugfixes (general):
24257 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
24258 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
24259 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
24260 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
24261 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
24262 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
24263 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24264 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
24265 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
24267 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
24268 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
24269 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
24270 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
24273 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24274 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
24275 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
24276 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
24277 which introduced predicted ports.
24278 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
24279 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
24280 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
24281 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24282 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
24283 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
24284 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
24285 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
24286 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
24287 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
24288 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24289 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
24290 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
24292 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
24293 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
24294 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
24295 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
24296 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
24297 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
24298 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
24299 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
24300 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
24301 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
24302 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
24306 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
24307 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
24308 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
24309 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
24310 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
24311 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
24312 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
24313 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
24314 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
24315 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
24316 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
24317 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
24318 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
24319 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
24321 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
24322 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
24323 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
24324 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
24325 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
24326 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
24327 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
24328 sure. Closes bug 5139.
24329 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
24330 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
24331 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
24332 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
24333 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
24334 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
24335 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24337 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
24338 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
24339 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
24340 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
24341 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
24342 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
24343 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
24344 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
24345 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
24346 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
24347 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
24348 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
24349 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
24350 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
24351 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
24352 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
24353 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
24354 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24355 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
24356 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
24358 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24359 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
24360 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
24361 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
24362 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
24363 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
24364 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
24365 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
24366 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
24367 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
24368 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
24369 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
24370 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
24372 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
24373 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24374 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
24375 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
24377 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
24378 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
24379 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24380 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
24381 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
24382 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24383 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
24384 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
24385 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
24386 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
24388 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
24389 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
24390 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
24392 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24393 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
24394 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
24395 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
24396 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
24397 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
24398 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
24399 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
24400 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
24401 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
24402 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
24403 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24404 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
24405 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
24406 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
24407 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24408 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
24409 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
24410 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
24411 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
24413 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
24414 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
24415 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24416 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
24417 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
24418 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
24420 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
24421 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
24422 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
24424 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
24425 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
24426 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
24427 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24428 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
24429 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24431 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24432 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
24433 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
24435 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
24436 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
24437 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24438 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
24439 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
24440 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24441 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
24442 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
24443 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
24444 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24445 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
24446 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
24447 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
24448 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
24449 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
24450 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
24452 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
24453 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
24454 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24455 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
24456 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
24457 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24458 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
24459 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24460 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
24461 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24462 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
24463 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24464 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
24467 o Documentation fixes:
24468 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
24469 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
24470 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
24471 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
24472 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
24473 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
24476 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
24477 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
24481 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
24482 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
24483 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
24484 and fixes several crash bugs.
24486 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
24487 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
24488 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
24489 those packages and upgrade anyway.
24491 o Directory authority changes:
24492 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
24493 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
24497 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
24498 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
24499 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
24500 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
24501 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
24502 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
24503 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
24504 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
24505 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
24506 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
24507 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
24508 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
24509 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
24510 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
24511 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
24512 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
24513 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
24514 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
24515 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
24516 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
24517 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
24518 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
24519 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
24520 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
24521 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
24522 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
24523 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
24526 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
24527 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24528 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
24529 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
24531 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
24532 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
24534 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
24535 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
24536 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
24537 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
24538 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
24539 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
24540 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
24541 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
24544 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
24545 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
24546 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
24547 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
24548 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
24549 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
24550 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
24551 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
24552 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
24553 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
24554 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
24555 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
24556 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
24557 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
24558 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
24559 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
24560 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
24561 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
24562 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
24563 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
24564 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
24565 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
24566 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
24567 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
24568 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24569 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
24570 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
24571 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
24572 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
24573 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
24574 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
24575 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
24576 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24577 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
24578 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24579 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
24580 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
24581 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
24582 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
24583 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24584 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
24585 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
24586 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
24587 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
24588 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
24589 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24591 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
24592 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
24593 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
24594 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
24595 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
24596 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
24597 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
24598 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
24599 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
24600 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
24601 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24602 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
24603 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24604 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
24605 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
24608 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
24609 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
24610 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
24611 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
24613 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24616 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
24617 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
24618 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
24619 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
24620 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
24621 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
24622 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
24625 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
24626 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
24627 the development branch build on Windows again.
24629 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24630 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
24631 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
24632 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
24633 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
24634 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
24635 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
24636 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
24637 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
24638 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
24639 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
24640 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
24641 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24642 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
24643 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
24645 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24646 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
24647 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
24648 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24649 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
24650 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24651 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
24652 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
24653 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
24654 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
24655 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
24656 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24659 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
24660 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
24661 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
24662 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
24663 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
24664 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
24665 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
24666 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
24667 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
24669 o Removed features:
24670 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
24671 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
24672 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
24673 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
24677 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
24678 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
24679 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
24680 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
24682 o Directory authority changes:
24683 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
24687 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
24688 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24689 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
24690 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
24692 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
24693 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
24694 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
24695 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
24696 documents entirely.
24697 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
24698 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
24699 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24701 o Major features (performance):
24702 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
24703 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
24704 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
24705 much faster than other AES implementations.
24707 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
24708 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
24709 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
24710 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
24711 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
24712 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
24713 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
24714 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
24715 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
24716 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
24717 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24718 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
24719 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
24720 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
24721 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24722 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
24723 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
24724 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24726 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
24727 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
24728 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
24729 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24730 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
24731 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24732 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
24733 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
24734 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
24736 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
24737 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
24738 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24739 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
24740 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
24741 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24744 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
24745 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
24746 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
24747 please let us know about it.
24748 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
24749 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
24750 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
24751 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
24752 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24753 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24754 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
24755 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
24757 o Default torrc changes:
24758 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
24759 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
24761 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
24762 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
24763 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
24766 o Removed features:
24767 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
24768 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
24769 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
24770 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
24772 o Code refactoring:
24773 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
24774 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
24775 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
24776 it would be a bad idea to start.
24779 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
24780 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
24781 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
24782 that get us closer to a release candidate.
24784 o Directory authority changes:
24785 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
24788 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
24789 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
24790 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
24791 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
24792 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
24793 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
24794 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
24795 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
24796 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
24797 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
24798 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
24799 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
24800 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
24801 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
24802 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
24803 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
24805 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
24806 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
24807 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
24808 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
24809 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
24810 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24811 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
24812 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
24813 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24814 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
24815 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
24816 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
24818 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
24819 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
24820 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24821 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
24822 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
24824 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24825 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
24826 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
24827 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
24828 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
24829 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
24830 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
24831 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
24832 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
24833 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
24834 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
24835 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
24836 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24837 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
24838 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24839 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
24840 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
24841 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
24842 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
24843 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
24844 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
24845 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
24848 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24849 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
24850 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24851 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
24852 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
24853 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
24854 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
24855 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
24856 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24857 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
24858 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
24859 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
24860 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
24861 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
24862 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
24863 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
24864 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
24867 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
24868 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
24869 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24872 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
24873 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
24874 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
24875 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
24878 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
24879 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
24881 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
24882 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
24883 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
24884 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24885 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
24886 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
24887 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
24888 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24889 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
24890 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
24891 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
24892 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24895 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
24896 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
24897 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
24898 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
24899 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
24900 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
24901 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24904 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
24905 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
24906 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
24907 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24908 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
24909 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
24910 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
24911 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
24912 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
24913 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
24915 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
24916 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
24917 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
24918 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
24919 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24920 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
24921 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
24922 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
24923 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
24926 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24927 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
24928 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
24932 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
24933 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
24934 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
24935 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
24936 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
24937 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
24940 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
24941 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
24942 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
24943 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
24944 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
24945 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
24946 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
24947 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
24949 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
24950 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
24951 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
24952 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
24953 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
24954 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
24955 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
24956 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
24958 o Major security workaround:
24959 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
24960 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
24961 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
24962 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
24963 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
24964 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
24965 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
24966 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
24967 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
24968 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
24969 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
24972 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
24973 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
24974 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
24975 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
24976 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
24977 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
24978 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
24979 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24980 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
24981 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
24982 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
24983 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
24984 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
24986 o Minor features (controller):
24987 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
24988 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
24989 file. Resolves bug 1101.
24990 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
24991 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
24992 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
24993 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
24994 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
24995 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
24997 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
24998 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
24999 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
25000 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
25001 part of ticket 3457.
25002 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
25003 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
25004 circuit-status' control-port command.
25006 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25007 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
25008 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
25009 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
25010 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
25012 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
25013 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
25014 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
25015 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
25016 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
25017 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
25018 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
25020 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
25021 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
25023 o Minor features (other):
25024 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
25025 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
25026 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
25027 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
25028 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
25029 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
25030 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
25031 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
25033 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
25034 them from the other auths.
25035 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
25036 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
25037 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
25038 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
25039 the 0.2.3.x series.
25040 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25042 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25043 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
25044 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
25045 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
25046 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
25047 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
25048 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
25049 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
25050 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
25051 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
25052 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25053 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
25054 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
25055 be disabled using the new
25056 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
25057 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25058 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
25059 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
25060 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
25061 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
25062 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
25063 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
25064 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
25065 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
25066 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
25067 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
25069 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
25070 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
25071 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
25074 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25075 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
25076 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
25078 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
25079 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
25080 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
25081 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
25082 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25083 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
25084 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25086 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
25087 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
25088 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
25089 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
25090 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
25091 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
25092 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
25093 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
25095 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
25096 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
25097 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25098 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
25099 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
25100 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
25101 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
25102 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
25103 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
25106 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25107 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
25108 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
25109 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
25110 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
25111 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
25112 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
25113 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
25114 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25115 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
25116 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
25117 accidentally been reverted.
25118 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
25119 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
25120 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
25121 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
25122 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
25123 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
25124 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25125 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
25126 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
25127 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25128 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
25129 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
25130 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
25131 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
25132 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25133 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
25134 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25135 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
25136 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25139 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
25140 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
25141 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
25142 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
25143 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
25144 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
25145 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
25147 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25148 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
25149 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
25150 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
25151 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
25152 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
25153 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
25155 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
25156 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
25157 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
25158 invalid value, rather than just -1.
25159 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
25160 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
25161 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
25162 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
25163 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
25164 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
25165 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
25169 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
25170 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
25171 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
25173 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
25174 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
25175 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
25176 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
25177 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
25178 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
25179 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
25180 (which Tor does not do by default).
25182 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
25183 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
25184 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
25185 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
25186 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
25188 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
25192 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25193 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25194 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25195 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25198 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
25199 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
25200 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
25201 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
25202 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
25203 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
25204 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
25205 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
25206 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
25207 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
25208 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25211 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25214 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
25215 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
25216 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
25218 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
25219 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
25220 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
25221 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
25222 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
25223 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
25224 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
25225 (which Tor does not do by default).
25227 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
25228 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
25229 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
25230 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
25231 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
25233 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
25234 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
25235 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
25238 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
25239 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
25240 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
25241 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
25242 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25244 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
25245 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
25248 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25249 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25250 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25251 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25252 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
25253 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
25254 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
25255 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
25257 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
25258 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
25259 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
25260 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
25261 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
25262 close based on processing a cell on it.
25263 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25264 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25265 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25266 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25267 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
25268 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
25269 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25270 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
25271 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
25272 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
25273 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
25274 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
25275 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
25276 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
25277 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
25280 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
25281 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
25282 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
25283 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
25284 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
25285 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25286 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25288 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
25289 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
25290 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
25291 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
25292 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
25293 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25294 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
25295 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
25296 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25297 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
25298 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
25299 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
25300 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
25301 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25302 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
25303 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
25304 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
25305 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
25306 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25307 Reported by "troll_un".
25308 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
25309 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25310 Reported by "troll_un".
25311 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25312 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25313 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
25314 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
25317 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
25318 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
25319 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
25320 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
25321 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
25322 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
25323 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
25324 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
25325 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
25326 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
25327 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25329 o Packaging changes:
25330 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
25331 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
25334 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
25335 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
25336 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
25337 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
25338 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
25340 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
25341 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
25343 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25344 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25345 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25346 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25347 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25348 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
25349 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
25350 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
25351 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
25354 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25357 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
25358 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
25359 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
25360 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
25361 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
25362 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
25363 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
25366 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
25367 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
25368 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
25369 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
25370 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
25371 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
25372 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
25373 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
25374 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
25375 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
25376 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
25377 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
25378 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
25379 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
25380 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
25381 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
25382 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
25383 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
25384 Resolves ticket 4526.
25385 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
25386 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
25387 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
25388 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
25389 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
25390 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
25391 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
25392 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
25393 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
25394 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
25395 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
25396 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
25397 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
25398 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
25399 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
25400 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
25403 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
25404 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
25405 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
25406 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
25407 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
25408 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
25409 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
25410 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
25411 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
25412 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
25414 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
25415 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
25416 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
25417 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
25418 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
25419 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
25420 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
25421 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
25422 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
25424 o Minor features (new/different config options):
25425 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
25426 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
25427 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
25428 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
25429 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
25430 Implements issue 933.
25431 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
25432 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
25433 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
25434 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
25435 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
25436 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
25437 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
25438 appending to the list.
25439 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
25440 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
25441 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
25442 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
25444 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
25445 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
25446 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
25447 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
25448 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
25449 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
25450 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
25451 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
25454 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
25455 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
25456 Resolves ticket 2474.
25457 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
25458 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
25459 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
25460 Required by fix for bug 3460.
25461 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
25462 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
25463 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
25464 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
25465 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
25466 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
25467 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
25468 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
25469 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
25471 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25472 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
25473 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
25475 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
25477 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
25478 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
25480 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
25481 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
25482 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
25483 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
25484 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
25485 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
25486 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
25488 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
25489 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
25490 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25491 Reported by "troll_un".
25492 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
25493 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25494 Reported by "troll_un".
25495 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
25496 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
25497 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
25498 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
25500 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
25501 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
25503 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
25504 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
25505 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
25506 with help from wanoskarnet.
25507 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
25508 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25511 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
25512 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
25513 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
25514 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25516 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
25517 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
25518 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
25519 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
25520 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
25521 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
25522 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
25523 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
25526 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
25527 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
25528 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
25529 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
25530 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
25531 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
25532 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
25533 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
25534 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
25537 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
25538 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
25539 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
25540 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
25542 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
25543 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
25544 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
25545 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25546 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
25547 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
25548 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
25549 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
25550 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
25551 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
25552 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
25553 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
25554 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
25555 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
25556 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
25557 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
25558 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
25559 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
25560 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
25561 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
25562 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
25563 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
25564 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
25565 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
25568 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
25569 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
25570 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
25571 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
25572 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
25573 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25574 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
25575 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
25578 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25579 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
25580 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
25581 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
25582 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
25583 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
25584 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
25585 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
25586 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
25587 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
25588 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
25589 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
25590 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
25591 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
25592 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
25594 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
25595 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
25596 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
25597 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
25598 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25599 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
25600 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
25601 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25602 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
25603 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
25604 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
25605 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
25606 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
25607 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25608 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
25609 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
25610 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25612 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25613 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
25614 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
25615 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
25616 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25617 Found by frosty_un.
25618 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
25619 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
25620 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
25622 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
25623 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
25624 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
25626 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
25627 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
25629 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
25630 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25633 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
25634 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
25635 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
25636 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
25637 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
25638 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
25639 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
25640 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
25641 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
25642 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
25643 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
25644 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
25645 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
25646 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
25648 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
25649 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
25650 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25652 o Packaging changes:
25653 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
25654 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
25656 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25657 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
25658 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
25659 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
25660 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
25661 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
25662 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
25663 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
25664 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
25667 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
25669 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
25670 ./src/test/bench binary.
25671 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
25672 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
25675 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
25676 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
25677 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
25681 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
25682 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
25683 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
25684 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
25685 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
25686 close based on processing a cell on it.
25687 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
25688 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
25689 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25690 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
25691 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
25692 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
25693 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
25694 cells were introduced.
25697 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
25698 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
25701 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
25702 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
25703 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
25704 users. Everybody should upgrade.
25706 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
25707 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
25710 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
25711 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
25712 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
25713 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
25714 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
25715 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
25717 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
25718 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25719 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25720 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25721 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25722 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25723 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25724 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25725 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25726 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25727 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25728 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
25729 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
25730 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
25731 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
25732 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
25733 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
25734 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
25737 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25738 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
25739 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
25740 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
25741 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
25742 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
25743 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
25744 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
25745 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
25746 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
25747 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
25748 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
25749 Partly fixes bug 3825.
25750 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
25751 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
25752 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
25753 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
25754 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
25755 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
25756 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
25758 o Major bugfixes (other):
25759 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25760 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25761 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25762 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25763 Found by "frosty_un".
25764 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
25765 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
25766 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
25767 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
25768 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
25769 immensely in tracking this bug down.
25770 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
25771 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
25774 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25775 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
25776 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
25777 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
25778 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
25779 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
25780 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
25781 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
25782 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
25783 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
25784 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
25785 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
25786 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
25787 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25788 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
25789 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
25790 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
25791 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
25792 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
25793 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
25794 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
25796 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25797 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
25798 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
25799 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25800 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
25801 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
25802 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
25803 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
25804 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
25805 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
25806 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
25809 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
25810 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
25811 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
25812 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
25813 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
25814 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
25815 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
25816 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
25817 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
25818 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
25819 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
25820 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
25821 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
25822 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25824 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25825 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
25826 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
25827 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
25828 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
25829 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
25830 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
25831 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
25834 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
25835 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
25836 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
25838 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
25839 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
25840 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
25841 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
25842 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
25843 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
25844 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
25845 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
25846 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
25847 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
25848 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
25849 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
25850 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
25852 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
25853 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
25854 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
25855 currently connected to them.
25857 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
25858 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
25859 remain; see for example proposal 188.
25861 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
25862 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25863 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25864 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25865 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25866 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25867 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25868 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25869 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25870 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25871 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25872 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
25873 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
25874 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
25875 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
25876 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
25877 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
25878 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
25881 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
25882 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
25883 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
25884 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
25885 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
25886 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
25887 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
25888 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25889 when bridges were introduced.
25890 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25891 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25892 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25893 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25894 Found by "frosty_un".
25897 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
25898 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
25900 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
25901 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
25902 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
25903 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
25904 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
25905 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
25906 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
25909 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
25910 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
25911 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
25912 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
25913 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
25914 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
25915 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
25916 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
25917 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
25918 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
25919 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
25920 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
25921 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
25922 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
25923 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
25924 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
25925 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
25926 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
25928 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
25929 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
25930 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
25931 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25932 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
25933 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
25934 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
25935 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
25936 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
25937 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
25938 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
25939 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25942 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
25943 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
25944 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
25945 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25948 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
25949 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
25950 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
25951 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
25952 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
25954 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25955 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
25956 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
25957 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
25958 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
25959 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
25960 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
25961 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
25962 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
25963 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25965 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
25966 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
25967 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
25968 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
25969 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
25970 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
25971 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
25972 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
25973 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
25974 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
25975 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
25976 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
25977 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
25978 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
25979 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25980 Found by "frosty_un".
25981 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
25982 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
25983 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
25984 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
25985 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
25986 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25987 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
25988 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
25989 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
25990 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
25991 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
25992 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
25993 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25994 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
25995 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
25996 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
25997 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
25998 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
25999 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26001 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26002 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
26003 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
26004 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
26005 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
26006 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
26007 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
26008 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
26010 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26011 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
26012 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26013 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26014 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
26015 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
26016 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
26017 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
26018 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
26019 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
26020 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
26021 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
26023 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
26024 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26025 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
26026 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26027 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
26028 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26029 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26030 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26031 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26033 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26035 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26036 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26037 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26038 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26039 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26040 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26041 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26042 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26044 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
26045 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
26046 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
26047 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
26048 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
26050 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26051 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26052 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26053 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26054 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26057 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
26058 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
26059 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
26060 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
26061 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
26064 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
26065 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
26066 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
26067 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
26068 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
26069 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
26070 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26071 when bridges were introduced.
26074 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
26075 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
26076 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26078 o Major features (networking):
26079 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
26080 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
26081 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
26082 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
26083 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
26087 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
26088 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
26089 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
26091 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
26092 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
26093 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
26094 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
26095 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26097 o Minor features (diagnostics):
26098 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
26099 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
26102 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
26103 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
26104 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
26105 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
26106 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
26107 listed in the network consensus and republish.
26109 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26110 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
26111 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
26112 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26114 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
26115 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
26116 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
26117 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
26118 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
26119 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
26120 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
26121 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
26122 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
26123 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
26124 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
26126 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26127 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26128 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26129 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
26130 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
26131 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
26132 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
26133 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
26134 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
26135 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26137 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26138 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
26139 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
26140 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
26141 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
26142 fixes part of bug 2442.
26143 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
26144 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
26145 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
26147 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
26148 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
26149 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
26150 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
26151 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26153 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
26154 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
26155 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
26156 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
26157 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
26160 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
26161 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
26162 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
26166 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
26167 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
26168 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
26169 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
26170 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
26171 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
26172 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
26175 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
26176 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
26177 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
26178 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
26179 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
26180 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
26181 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
26184 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
26185 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
26186 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
26187 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
26188 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
26189 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
26190 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
26191 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
26192 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26194 o Code refactoring:
26195 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
26196 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
26199 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
26200 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
26201 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
26202 reachable from Iran again.
26205 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
26206 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
26207 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26209 o Minor features (security):
26210 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
26211 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
26212 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
26213 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
26214 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
26215 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
26216 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
26217 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
26218 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
26219 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
26222 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26223 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26224 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
26225 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
26226 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
26227 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
26228 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
26229 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
26230 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26232 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
26233 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
26234 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
26235 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
26236 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
26237 raised by bug 3898.
26238 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
26239 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
26240 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
26241 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
26242 fixes part of bug 2442.
26243 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
26244 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
26245 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
26247 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
26248 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
26249 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
26250 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
26251 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26254 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
26255 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
26256 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
26257 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
26258 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
26259 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
26262 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
26263 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
26264 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
26265 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
26266 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
26267 bufferevent-based networking backend.
26269 o Major features (stream isolation):
26270 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
26271 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
26272 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
26273 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
26274 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
26275 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
26276 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
26277 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
26278 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
26279 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
26280 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
26281 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
26282 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
26283 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
26285 o Major features (other):
26286 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
26287 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
26288 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
26289 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
26290 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
26291 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
26292 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
26293 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
26294 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
26295 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
26296 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
26297 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
26298 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
26300 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26301 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
26303 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
26304 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
26305 Fixes part of bug 3752.
26306 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
26307 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
26308 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
26309 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
26310 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
26311 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
26312 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
26313 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
26314 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
26315 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
26316 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
26317 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
26318 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
26319 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
26320 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
26321 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
26322 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
26324 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26325 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
26326 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
26327 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
26328 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
26329 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
26332 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
26333 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
26334 user. Implements ticket 1692.
26335 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
26336 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
26337 best copy data out of a buffer.
26338 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
26339 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
26340 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
26342 o Minor features (build compatibility):
26343 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
26344 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
26345 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
26347 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26348 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26350 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
26351 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
26352 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26353 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
26354 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
26355 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
26356 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26358 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
26359 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
26360 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
26361 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
26362 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
26363 raised by bug 3898.
26364 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
26365 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
26366 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
26369 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
26370 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
26371 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
26372 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
26373 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
26374 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
26375 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
26376 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
26377 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
26378 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
26379 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
26380 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26381 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
26382 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
26383 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
26384 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
26385 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
26386 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
26387 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
26390 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26391 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
26392 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
26396 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
26397 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
26398 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
26399 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
26400 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
26401 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
26404 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
26405 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
26406 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
26407 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
26408 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
26409 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
26410 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
26411 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
26412 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
26413 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
26415 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
26416 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
26417 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
26418 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
26419 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
26420 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
26421 many many other features and bugfixes.
26424 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
26425 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
26426 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
26429 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
26430 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
26431 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
26432 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
26433 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
26434 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
26435 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
26436 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
26439 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26442 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
26443 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
26444 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26445 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
26446 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
26447 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
26448 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
26449 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
26450 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
26451 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
26452 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
26453 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
26454 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
26455 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26456 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
26457 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
26458 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
26459 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
26463 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
26464 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
26465 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
26466 up a variety of recently introduced features.
26469 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
26470 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
26471 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
26472 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
26473 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
26474 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
26475 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
26476 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
26477 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
26478 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
26479 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
26480 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
26481 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
26482 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
26483 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
26484 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
26486 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26487 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
26488 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
26489 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
26490 order. Fixes bug 2798.
26491 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
26492 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
26493 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
26494 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
26495 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
26496 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
26500 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26501 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
26502 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
26503 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
26505 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
26506 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
26507 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
26508 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
26509 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
26510 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
26511 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
26512 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
26513 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
26514 Implements ticket 3264.
26515 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
26516 implements ticket 3439.
26518 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
26519 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
26520 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
26521 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
26522 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
26523 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
26524 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
26525 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
26526 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
26527 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
26528 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
26529 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
26530 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
26531 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
26532 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
26533 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
26534 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
26535 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
26536 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
26537 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
26538 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
26539 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
26540 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
26541 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
26542 fails. Spotted by coverity.
26543 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
26544 present. Found by coverity.
26545 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
26546 a directory cache that provides them.
26548 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26549 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
26550 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
26551 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
26552 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
26553 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
26555 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
26556 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
26557 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26558 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
26559 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
26560 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26561 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
26562 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
26564 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26565 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
26566 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
26567 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
26568 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
26569 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
26570 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
26572 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
26576 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
26577 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
26578 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
26581 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
26582 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
26583 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26584 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26587 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
26588 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
26589 discovered by katmagic.
26590 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26591 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26592 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26593 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26594 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26595 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26596 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26597 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26598 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
26599 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
26600 fixes part of bug 3465.
26601 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
26602 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
26606 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26609 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
26610 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
26611 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
26612 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
26613 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
26616 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
26617 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
26618 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
26619 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
26620 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
26623 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
26624 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
26625 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
26626 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
26627 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
26628 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26631 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
26632 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
26633 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
26634 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26635 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
26636 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
26637 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
26638 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
26639 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
26640 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
26641 fixes part of bug 3407.
26642 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
26643 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
26644 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
26645 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
26646 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
26647 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
26648 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
26649 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
26650 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
26651 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
26653 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
26654 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
26655 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
26656 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
26659 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26661 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26662 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
26663 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
26665 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
26667 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
26670 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
26671 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
26672 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
26673 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
26674 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
26675 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
26679 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
26680 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
26681 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
26682 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26683 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
26684 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
26685 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
26687 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
26688 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26689 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
26690 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
26691 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
26692 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
26693 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
26694 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
26695 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
26696 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
26697 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
26698 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
26699 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
26700 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
26701 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
26702 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
26703 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
26704 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
26705 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
26709 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
26710 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
26711 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
26712 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
26713 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
26714 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
26715 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
26716 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
26717 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
26721 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26722 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
26723 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
26725 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
26727 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
26728 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
26729 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
26730 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
26731 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26732 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
26733 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
26734 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
26735 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
26737 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
26738 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
26739 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
26740 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
26741 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
26742 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
26744 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
26745 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
26747 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
26748 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
26749 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26752 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
26753 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
26754 Resolves ticket 3252.
26755 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
26756 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
26757 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
26758 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
26759 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
26760 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
26763 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26764 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26767 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
26768 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
26769 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
26772 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
26773 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26774 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
26775 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
26776 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
26779 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
26780 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26781 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
26782 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
26783 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
26784 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
26785 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
26786 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
26787 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
26791 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
26792 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
26793 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
26794 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
26795 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
26797 o Security/privacy fixes:
26798 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
26799 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
26800 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
26801 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
26802 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
26803 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
26804 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
26805 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
26806 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
26807 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
26808 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
26809 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
26810 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
26811 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
26812 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26815 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
26816 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
26817 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
26818 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
26819 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
26820 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
26821 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
26822 part of ticket 3076.
26823 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
26824 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
26825 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
26829 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
26830 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
26831 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
26832 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
26833 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
26834 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
26835 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
26836 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
26838 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
26839 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
26840 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
26841 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
26842 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
26843 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
26844 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
26845 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
26846 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
26847 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
26848 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
26849 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
26850 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26853 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
26854 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
26855 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
26856 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
26857 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26858 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26859 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26861 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
26862 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
26863 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
26864 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
26865 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
26866 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
26867 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
26868 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
26869 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
26870 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
26871 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
26872 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
26873 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
26874 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
26875 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
26876 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
26878 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
26879 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
26881 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
26882 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
26884 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
26885 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
26887 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
26888 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
26889 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26891 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
26892 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
26893 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
26894 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
26895 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26896 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
26897 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
26898 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
26899 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
26900 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
26901 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
26903 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
26904 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
26905 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
26906 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
26907 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
26908 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
26909 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
26910 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
26911 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
26912 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
26913 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26914 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
26915 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
26918 o Removed features:
26919 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
26920 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
26921 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
26925 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
26926 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
26927 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
26928 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
26929 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
26930 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
26932 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
26933 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26934 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
26937 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
26938 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
26939 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
26940 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
26941 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
26942 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
26943 zero-copy transports where available.
26944 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
26945 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
26946 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
26947 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
26948 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
26949 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
26950 debug it as it breaks.
26951 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
26952 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
26953 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
26954 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
26955 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
26956 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
26957 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
26958 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
26959 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
26960 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
26961 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
26962 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
26963 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
26964 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
26965 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
26966 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
26967 PortForwarding option.
26968 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
26969 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
26970 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
26971 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
26972 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
26973 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
26974 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
26977 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
26978 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
26979 Implements enhancement 1668.
26980 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
26982 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
26983 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
26984 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
26985 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
26986 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
26987 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
26988 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
26990 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
26991 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
26992 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
26993 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
26994 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
26995 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
26996 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
26998 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
26999 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
27000 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
27001 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
27002 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
27003 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
27004 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
27006 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
27007 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
27008 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
27009 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
27010 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27011 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
27012 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
27013 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
27014 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
27015 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
27016 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
27017 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
27018 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
27019 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
27020 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
27023 o Minor features (controller):
27024 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
27025 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
27026 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
27027 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
27028 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
27029 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
27030 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
27033 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
27034 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
27035 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
27036 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
27037 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
27038 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
27039 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
27040 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
27042 o Minor packaging issues:
27043 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
27044 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27046 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27047 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
27048 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
27049 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
27050 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
27051 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
27052 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
27053 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
27054 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
27055 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
27056 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
27057 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
27058 our library structure used to force them to link it.
27060 o Removed features:
27061 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
27062 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
27063 are no longer in use as servers.
27065 o Documentation fixes:
27066 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
27067 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
27068 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
27072 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
27073 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
27074 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
27075 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
27076 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
27077 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
27078 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
27079 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
27080 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
27081 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
27084 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
27085 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
27086 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
27087 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
27088 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
27089 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
27090 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
27091 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
27092 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
27093 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27094 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
27095 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
27096 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27097 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
27098 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
27099 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
27101 o Security and stability fixes:
27102 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
27103 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
27104 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
27105 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
27106 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
27107 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
27108 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
27109 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
27110 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
27111 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
27112 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
27113 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
27114 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27115 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
27116 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
27117 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
27120 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
27121 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
27122 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
27123 contributions to the network.
27125 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
27126 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
27127 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
27128 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
27129 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
27130 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
27131 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
27132 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
27133 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
27134 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
27135 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
27136 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
27137 connections to directory servers.
27138 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
27139 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
27140 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
27141 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
27142 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
27143 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
27144 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
27145 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
27146 information, or fetch directory information.
27147 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
27148 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
27149 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
27150 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
27151 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
27152 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
27153 unless you really want your Tor to break.
27154 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
27155 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
27156 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
27157 - When StrictNodes is 1:
27158 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
27159 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
27160 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
27161 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
27162 reachability self-tests.
27163 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
27164 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
27165 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
27166 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
27167 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27168 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
27169 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
27171 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
27172 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27173 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
27174 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
27175 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
27176 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27177 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
27178 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
27179 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
27180 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
27181 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
27184 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
27185 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
27186 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
27187 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
27188 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
27189 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27190 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
27191 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27192 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
27193 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
27194 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
27195 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27196 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
27197 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
27198 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27199 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
27200 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
27202 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
27203 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
27204 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
27205 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
27206 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27207 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
27208 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27209 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
27210 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
27211 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
27212 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
27213 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
27214 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
27215 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
27216 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
27217 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27218 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
27219 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
27220 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
27221 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
27224 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
27225 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
27226 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
27227 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
27228 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
27229 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
27230 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
27231 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
27232 Required by fix for bug 3000.
27233 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
27234 by fix for bug 3000.
27235 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
27236 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
27238 o Code simplification and refactoring:
27239 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
27240 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
27241 send a body too). Since only server versions before
27242 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
27243 keep the workaround in place.
27244 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
27245 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
27246 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
27247 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
27248 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
27249 want to do it differently.
27250 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
27251 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
27252 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
27253 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
27254 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
27258 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
27259 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
27260 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
27261 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
27262 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
27265 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
27266 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
27267 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
27268 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
27269 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
27271 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
27272 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
27273 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
27274 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
27275 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
27276 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
27277 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
27278 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
27279 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
27280 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
27281 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
27282 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
27285 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
27286 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
27287 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
27288 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
27289 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
27290 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
27291 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
27293 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
27294 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
27295 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
27296 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
27297 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
27298 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
27299 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
27300 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
27301 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
27302 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
27303 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
27304 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
27305 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
27306 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
27307 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
27308 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
27309 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
27310 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
27311 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
27312 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
27313 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
27314 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
27315 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27318 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
27319 networkstatus vote.
27320 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
27321 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
27322 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
27324 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
27325 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
27326 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
27327 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
27329 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
27330 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
27331 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
27332 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27335 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
27336 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27338 o Documentation changes:
27339 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
27340 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
27342 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
27345 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
27346 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
27347 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
27348 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
27349 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
27350 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
27353 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27354 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
27355 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
27356 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
27357 the rest of bug 1074.
27358 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
27359 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
27360 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27361 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
27362 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
27363 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
27364 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27365 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
27366 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
27367 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
27368 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
27369 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
27370 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
27371 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27374 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
27375 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
27376 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
27377 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
27378 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
27379 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
27380 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
27381 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
27382 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
27383 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
27384 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
27385 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
27386 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
27387 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
27389 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27390 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
27391 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
27392 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
27393 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
27394 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
27396 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
27397 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
27398 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
27399 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
27400 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
27401 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
27402 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
27403 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
27404 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
27405 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
27406 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
27407 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
27408 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
27409 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
27410 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
27411 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
27412 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
27413 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
27414 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
27415 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
27416 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
27417 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
27418 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
27419 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27420 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
27421 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
27423 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
27424 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
27425 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
27426 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
27427 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
27428 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
27430 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
27431 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
27432 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
27434 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27435 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
27436 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
27437 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
27438 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
27439 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
27440 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
27441 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
27442 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
27443 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
27444 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
27445 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
27446 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
27450 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
27451 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
27452 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
27453 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
27454 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
27455 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
27456 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
27457 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
27458 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
27459 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
27460 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
27461 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
27463 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27465 o Minor features (log subsystem):
27466 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
27467 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
27468 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
27470 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
27471 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
27473 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
27474 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
27475 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
27478 o Packaging changes:
27479 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27480 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27481 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27484 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
27485 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
27486 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
27487 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27488 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27489 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
27492 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27493 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
27494 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
27495 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
27496 the rest of bug 1074.
27497 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
27498 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27499 Found by "piebeer".
27500 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
27501 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
27502 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
27503 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
27504 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
27505 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
27506 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27509 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
27511 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27514 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
27515 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
27516 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
27517 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
27518 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
27519 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
27520 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
27521 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
27522 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
27523 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
27524 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27526 o Packaging changes:
27527 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
27528 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
27529 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
27530 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
27531 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
27532 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
27535 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
27536 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
27537 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
27538 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
27539 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
27540 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
27543 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
27544 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27545 Found by "piebeer".
27546 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
27547 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
27548 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
27549 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
27552 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
27554 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
27555 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
27556 Implements ticket 2432.
27559 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
27560 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
27561 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
27564 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
27565 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
27566 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
27567 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
27568 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
27569 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
27571 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27572 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
27573 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
27574 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
27576 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
27577 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
27578 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
27579 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
27580 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
27581 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
27582 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
27583 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
27585 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27586 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
27587 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
27588 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
27589 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
27590 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
27591 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
27592 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
27593 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
27594 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
27595 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
27596 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
27597 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
27598 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
27601 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
27602 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
27603 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
27604 bug reported by doorss.
27605 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
27606 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
27607 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27608 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
27609 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
27611 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
27612 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
27613 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
27614 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
27615 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27617 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
27618 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27619 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
27621 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
27622 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
27623 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
27624 Automake 1.7 or later.
27625 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
27626 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
27627 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
27628 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
27630 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27631 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
27632 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
27635 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27636 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
27637 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
27638 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
27640 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27641 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
27642 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
27643 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
27644 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
27645 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
27646 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
27647 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
27648 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
27650 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
27651 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
27652 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
27655 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27656 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
27657 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
27658 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
27659 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
27660 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
27661 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
27662 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
27663 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
27664 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
27665 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
27666 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
27667 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
27669 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
27670 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
27674 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
27675 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
27676 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
27677 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
27678 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
27680 o Major bugfixes (security):
27681 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
27682 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
27683 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
27685 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
27686 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
27687 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
27688 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
27689 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
27690 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
27691 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
27692 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
27694 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27695 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
27696 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
27697 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
27698 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
27699 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
27700 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
27701 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
27702 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
27703 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
27704 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
27705 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
27706 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
27707 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
27710 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27711 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
27712 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
27713 bug reported by doorss.
27714 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
27715 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
27716 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27717 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
27718 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
27720 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
27721 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
27722 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
27723 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
27724 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27725 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
27726 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
27727 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
27728 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
27731 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27732 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
27735 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
27736 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
27737 Automake 1.7 or later.
27740 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
27741 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
27742 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
27743 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
27744 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
27747 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
27748 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
27749 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
27750 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
27751 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
27752 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
27753 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
27754 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
27755 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
27756 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
27757 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
27759 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
27760 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
27761 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
27762 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
27764 o Directory authority changes:
27765 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
27768 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
27769 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
27770 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
27771 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
27772 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
27773 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
27774 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
27775 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
27776 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
27779 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27780 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
27781 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
27782 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
27783 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
27784 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
27785 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
27786 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
27787 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
27788 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
27792 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
27793 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
27794 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
27795 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
27799 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
27800 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
27801 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
27802 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
27804 o Directory authority changes:
27805 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
27808 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27811 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
27812 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
27813 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
27814 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
27815 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
27818 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
27819 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
27820 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
27821 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
27822 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27823 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
27824 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
27825 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
27826 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
27827 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27828 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
27829 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27830 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
27831 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
27832 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
27833 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
27834 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
27835 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27836 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
27837 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
27838 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
27839 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
27840 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
27843 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
27844 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
27845 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
27846 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
27848 o New directory authorities:
27849 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
27853 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
27854 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
27855 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
27857 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
27858 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27859 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
27860 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
27861 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
27862 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
27864 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
27865 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
27866 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
27869 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
27870 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
27871 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
27872 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
27873 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
27874 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
27875 Patch from mingw-san.
27878 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
27879 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
27880 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
27881 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
27882 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
27883 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
27886 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
27887 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
27888 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
27891 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
27892 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
27893 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
27894 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
27895 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27898 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
27899 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
27900 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
27901 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
27902 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
27903 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
27904 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
27905 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
27906 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
27909 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
27910 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
27911 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
27912 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
27913 to a stable release.
27916 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
27917 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
27918 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
27919 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27920 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
27921 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
27922 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
27923 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
27924 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27925 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
27926 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27927 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
27928 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
27929 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
27930 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
27931 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
27932 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
27933 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
27934 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
27935 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
27936 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
27937 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
27938 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
27939 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
27940 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27941 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
27942 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
27943 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
27944 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
27945 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
27946 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
27949 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
27950 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
27951 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
27952 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
27953 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
27954 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
27955 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
27956 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
27957 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
27958 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
27959 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
27960 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
27961 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
27962 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27963 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
27964 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
27965 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
27967 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
27968 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
27969 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
27970 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
27971 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
27973 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
27974 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
27975 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
27976 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
27979 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
27980 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
27981 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
27982 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
27983 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
27984 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
27985 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
27986 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27988 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27989 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
27990 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
27991 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
27992 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
27993 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
27994 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
27995 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
27996 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
27997 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
27998 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
27999 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
28000 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
28001 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
28002 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
28005 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
28006 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
28007 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
28008 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
28009 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
28010 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
28011 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
28012 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
28013 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
28016 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
28017 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
28018 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
28019 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
28020 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
28022 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
28023 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
28024 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
28025 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
28026 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
28027 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
28028 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28029 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
28030 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
28031 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
28032 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
28033 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
28034 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
28035 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
28037 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28038 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
28040 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
28041 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28042 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
28043 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
28044 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
28045 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
28046 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
28047 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
28048 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28049 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
28050 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
28051 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
28052 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
28053 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
28054 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
28055 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
28056 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
28057 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28059 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
28060 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
28061 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
28062 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
28063 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
28064 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
28065 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
28066 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
28067 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
28068 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
28069 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
28070 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
28071 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
28073 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
28074 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
28075 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
28076 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28079 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
28080 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
28081 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
28082 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
28083 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
28084 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
28085 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
28086 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
28087 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
28088 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
28089 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
28090 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
28091 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
28092 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
28093 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
28094 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
28095 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
28096 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
28097 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
28100 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28101 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
28102 based on the time during which we were active and not in
28103 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
28104 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
28105 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
28106 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
28107 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28109 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28110 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
28111 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
28112 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
28113 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
28114 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
28115 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
28116 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
28117 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
28118 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
28121 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
28122 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
28123 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
28124 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
28126 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
28127 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
28128 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
28129 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
28130 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
28131 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
28132 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
28133 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
28134 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
28135 the longest-lived bug prize.
28136 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
28137 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
28138 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
28139 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
28140 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
28141 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
28143 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
28144 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
28145 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
28146 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
28147 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
28148 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
28152 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28153 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
28154 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
28155 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
28156 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
28157 got suppressed since the last warning.
28158 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
28159 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
28160 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
28161 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
28162 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
28163 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
28164 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
28165 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
28166 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
28167 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
28168 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
28169 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
28170 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
28171 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
28172 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
28173 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
28174 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
28175 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
28176 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
28178 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
28179 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
28180 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
28182 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28183 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
28184 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
28185 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
28186 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
28187 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
28188 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
28189 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
28190 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
28191 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
28192 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
28193 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
28194 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
28195 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
28196 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
28198 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
28199 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
28200 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
28201 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
28202 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
28203 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28204 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
28206 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
28207 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
28208 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
28209 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
28210 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
28213 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28214 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
28215 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
28216 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
28217 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
28218 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
28219 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
28220 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
28221 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
28222 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
28223 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28224 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
28225 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
28226 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
28227 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
28228 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
28229 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
28230 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
28233 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
28236 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
28237 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
28238 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
28239 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
28240 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
28244 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
28245 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
28246 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
28247 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
28248 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
28249 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
28250 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
28251 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
28252 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
28253 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
28254 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
28255 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
28256 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
28257 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
28258 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
28259 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
28260 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
28263 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
28264 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
28265 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
28266 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
28267 they first get the Guard flag.
28268 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
28272 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28273 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
28274 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
28275 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
28276 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
28277 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
28278 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
28279 Patch from mingw-san.
28280 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
28281 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
28283 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
28284 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
28285 Implements enhancement 1790.
28287 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28288 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
28289 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
28290 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
28291 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
28292 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
28293 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
28294 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
28295 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
28296 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
28297 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
28298 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
28299 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28300 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
28301 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
28302 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
28303 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
28304 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
28305 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
28306 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
28308 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
28309 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
28310 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
28311 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
28312 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
28313 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
28314 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
28315 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
28316 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
28317 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
28318 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
28319 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
28320 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
28322 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
28323 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
28324 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
28325 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
28326 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
28327 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28329 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28330 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
28331 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
28332 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
28333 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28334 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
28335 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
28336 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28337 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
28338 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
28339 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
28340 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
28342 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
28343 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
28344 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
28345 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
28346 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
28347 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
28348 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
28350 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
28352 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
28353 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
28354 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
28355 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
28356 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
28357 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
28359 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28360 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
28361 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
28362 structures and defines in or.h for now.
28363 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
28364 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
28365 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
28366 statistics code to be more easily tested.
28367 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
28368 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
28369 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
28372 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
28373 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
28374 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
28375 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
28376 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
28377 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
28381 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
28382 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
28383 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
28384 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
28385 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
28386 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
28387 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
28388 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
28389 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
28390 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
28391 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
28392 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
28393 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
28395 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
28396 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
28397 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
28398 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
28399 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
28400 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
28401 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
28402 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
28403 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
28404 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
28405 can be controlled by the consensus.
28408 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
28409 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
28410 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
28411 more accurate data for many African countries.
28412 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
28413 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
28414 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
28415 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
28416 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
28417 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
28418 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
28419 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
28420 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
28421 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
28422 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
28423 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
28425 o New directory authorities:
28426 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
28430 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
28431 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
28432 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
28433 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
28434 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
28435 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
28436 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
28437 what should go in a patch.
28438 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
28439 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
28440 over our stored history.
28441 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
28442 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
28443 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
28444 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
28445 file. Fixes bug 1296.
28446 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
28447 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
28448 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
28452 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28454 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
28455 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
28456 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
28457 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
28458 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
28459 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
28460 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
28461 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
28462 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
28463 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
28464 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
28465 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28466 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
28467 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
28468 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
28469 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
28470 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
28471 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
28472 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
28473 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
28474 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
28475 two-hop circuits are actually created.
28476 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
28477 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28478 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
28479 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28482 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
28483 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28484 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28485 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28486 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28488 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
28489 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
28492 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
28493 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
28494 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
28495 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
28496 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
28497 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
28498 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
28499 their directory fetches over TLS).
28500 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
28501 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
28502 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
28503 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
28504 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
28505 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
28506 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
28507 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
28510 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
28511 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
28515 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
28516 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28517 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
28518 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
28519 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
28520 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
28521 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28524 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
28525 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
28526 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
28527 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
28528 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
28531 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
28532 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
28533 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
28534 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
28535 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
28536 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
28537 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
28538 their directory fetches over TLS).
28541 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
28542 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
28544 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
28545 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
28546 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
28547 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
28548 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
28549 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
28550 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
28551 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
28552 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
28553 hour of their uptime.
28556 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
28557 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
28558 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
28562 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
28563 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
28564 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
28565 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
28566 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
28567 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
28569 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
28570 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
28571 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
28573 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
28574 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
28578 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
28579 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
28580 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
28584 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
28585 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
28586 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
28589 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
28590 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
28591 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
28592 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
28593 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
28594 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
28595 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
28596 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
28597 about the option without breaking older ones.
28598 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
28599 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
28600 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
28601 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
28604 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
28605 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
28606 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
28607 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
28609 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
28610 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
28611 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
28614 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
28615 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
28617 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
28618 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
28619 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
28620 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
28621 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
28622 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
28623 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28624 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
28625 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
28626 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
28627 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
28630 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
28631 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28632 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
28633 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
28634 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
28635 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
28636 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28639 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
28640 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
28641 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
28642 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
28643 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
28644 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
28647 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
28648 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
28649 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
28650 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
28652 o Major features (performance):
28653 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
28654 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
28655 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
28656 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
28657 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
28658 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
28659 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
28661 o Minor features (performance):
28662 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
28663 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
28664 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
28665 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
28666 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
28670 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
28671 speeds up the build considerably.
28673 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28674 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
28675 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28676 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
28677 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28678 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
28679 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
28680 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28682 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
28683 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
28684 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
28686 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
28687 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
28688 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
28689 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
28691 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28692 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
28693 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
28694 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
28695 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
28696 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
28699 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
28700 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
28701 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
28703 o Directory authority changes:
28704 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
28705 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
28706 service directory authority) from the list.
28709 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
28710 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
28711 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
28712 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
28713 libraries in a security patch.
28714 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
28715 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
28716 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
28717 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
28719 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
28720 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
28721 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
28722 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
28723 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
28724 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
28725 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
28728 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
28729 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
28730 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
28731 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
28732 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
28733 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
28734 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
28735 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
28736 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
28737 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
28738 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
28739 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
28740 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
28742 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
28743 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
28744 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
28745 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
28746 control-spec.txt said they were.
28747 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
28748 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
28749 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
28750 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
28751 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28753 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28754 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
28755 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
28756 produce nicer HTML.
28757 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
28758 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
28759 iPhone SDK versions.
28760 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
28761 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
28762 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
28763 projects directory in svn.
28764 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
28765 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
28766 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
28767 high latency links.
28770 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
28771 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
28772 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
28774 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
28775 to the circuit build timeout.
28776 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
28777 arguments we do not recognize.
28778 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
28779 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
28780 open() without checking it.
28783 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
28784 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
28785 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
28786 several minor potential security bugs.
28789 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
28790 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
28791 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
28792 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
28793 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
28794 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
28795 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
28798 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
28799 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
28801 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
28802 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
28803 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
28804 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
28808 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
28809 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
28813 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
28814 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
28815 customized patches to run/build.
28818 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
28819 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
28820 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
28823 o Major bugfixes (performance):
28824 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
28825 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
28826 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
28827 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
28828 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
28829 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
28830 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
28833 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
28834 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
28835 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
28836 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
28837 libraries in a security patch.
28838 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
28839 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
28840 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
28841 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
28844 o Directory authority changes:
28845 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
28846 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
28847 service directory authority) from the list.
28850 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
28851 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
28854 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
28855 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
28856 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
28857 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
28858 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
28861 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
28862 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
28863 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
28867 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
28868 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
28869 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
28870 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
28871 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28874 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
28875 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
28876 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
28880 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
28881 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
28882 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
28883 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
28884 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
28886 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
28887 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
28889 o Directory authority changes:
28890 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
28893 o Major features (performance):
28894 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
28895 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
28896 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
28897 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
28898 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
28899 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
28900 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
28901 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
28902 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
28903 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
28904 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
28905 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
28906 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
28908 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
28909 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
28910 but never per-conn write limits.
28911 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
28912 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
28913 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
28914 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
28916 o Major features (relay selection options):
28917 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
28918 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
28919 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
28920 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
28921 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
28922 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
28923 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
28925 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
28926 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
28928 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
28929 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
28930 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
28931 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
28932 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
28933 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
28934 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
28935 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
28936 the network changes.
28939 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
28940 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
28941 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28944 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
28945 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
28946 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
28947 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
28948 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
28949 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
28950 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
28951 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
28952 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
28953 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
28954 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
28955 generated while acting as a relay.
28956 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
28957 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
28958 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
28959 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
28960 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
28961 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
28963 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
28964 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
28965 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28966 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
28967 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
28968 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
28971 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
28972 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
28973 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
28975 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
28976 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
28977 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
28979 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
28980 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
28982 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
28983 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
28984 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
28986 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
28987 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
28990 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28991 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
28992 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
28993 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
28994 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
28995 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
28996 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
28997 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
28998 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
29000 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
29003 o Removed features:
29004 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
29005 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
29006 hidden service usage.
29009 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
29010 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
29011 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
29012 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
29013 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
29015 o Directory authority changes:
29016 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
29020 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
29021 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
29022 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29025 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
29026 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
29027 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
29028 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
29029 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
29032 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29033 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29034 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
29035 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
29036 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
29037 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
29038 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
29041 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29042 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29043 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29044 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29045 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
29046 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
29048 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
29049 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
29052 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
29053 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
29054 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
29055 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
29056 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
29057 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
29060 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
29061 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
29062 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
29064 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
29065 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
29066 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
29067 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
29068 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
29069 download consensus + microdescriptors".
29070 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
29071 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
29072 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
29073 hash algorithm in the future.
29074 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
29075 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
29076 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
29077 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
29078 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
29079 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
29080 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
29081 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
29082 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
29085 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29086 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29087 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
29088 won't work unless we say we are.
29091 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
29092 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
29093 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
29094 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
29095 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
29096 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
29097 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29098 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29099 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29100 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29101 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
29102 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
29103 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
29104 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
29105 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
29106 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
29107 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
29108 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
29109 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
29110 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
29111 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
29112 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
29115 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
29116 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
29117 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
29118 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
29120 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
29121 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
29123 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
29124 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
29125 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
29126 in the Vidalia Settings window.
29129 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
29130 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
29131 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
29132 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
29133 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
29135 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
29136 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
29138 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
29139 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
29140 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
29143 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
29144 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
29145 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
29147 o New directory authorities:
29148 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
29150 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
29153 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
29154 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
29156 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
29157 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29158 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29159 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
29160 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
29161 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
29162 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29163 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29164 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
29165 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
29166 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
29167 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
29168 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
29169 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
29170 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
29171 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
29172 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
29174 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
29175 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
29176 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
29178 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
29179 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
29183 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
29184 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
29185 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
29186 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
29187 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
29190 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
29191 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29194 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29196 o Directory authorities:
29197 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
29201 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
29202 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
29203 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
29204 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
29205 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
29208 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
29209 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
29210 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
29211 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
29213 o New directory authorities:
29214 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
29217 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
29218 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
29219 SSL handshake issues.
29220 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
29221 during the TLS handshake.
29222 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
29223 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
29224 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
29225 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
29226 none of which are very big.
29229 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
29231 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
29232 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29233 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
29234 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
29235 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29236 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
29237 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
29238 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
29241 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29242 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
29243 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
29244 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
29245 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
29248 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
29249 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29252 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
29253 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
29256 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
29257 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
29258 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29261 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
29262 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
29263 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
29264 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
29265 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
29266 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
29269 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
29270 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
29271 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
29272 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
29273 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
29274 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
29275 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
29276 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
29277 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
29278 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
29279 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
29280 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
29281 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
29282 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
29283 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
29284 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
29285 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
29286 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
29289 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
29290 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
29294 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
29295 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29296 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29297 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
29298 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
29299 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
29300 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29301 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
29302 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
29303 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
29304 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29305 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29306 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
29307 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
29308 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
29309 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
29310 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
29311 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
29312 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
29313 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
29314 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
29316 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
29317 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
29318 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
29319 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29320 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
29321 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
29323 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
29324 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
29325 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
29328 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
29329 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
29330 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
29331 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
29332 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
29333 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
29336 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
29337 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
29338 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
29339 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
29340 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
29343 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
29344 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
29345 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
29348 o New directory authorities:
29349 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
29353 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
29354 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
29355 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
29356 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
29357 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
29360 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
29361 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
29362 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
29363 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
29364 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
29367 o New options for gathering stats safely:
29368 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
29369 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
29370 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
29371 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
29372 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
29373 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
29374 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
29375 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29376 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
29378 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
29379 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
29380 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29381 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
29383 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
29384 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
29385 their extra-info documents.
29388 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
29389 source files Tor was built with.
29390 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
29391 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
29392 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
29393 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
29394 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
29395 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
29397 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
29398 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
29399 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
29400 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
29401 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
29403 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
29404 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
29407 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
29408 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
29409 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
29410 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
29411 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
29413 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
29414 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
29416 o Deprecated and removed features:
29417 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
29418 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
29419 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
29420 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
29421 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
29422 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
29423 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
29424 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
29426 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
29427 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
29428 via application-level web tricks.
29430 o Packaging changes:
29431 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
29432 installer bundles. See
29433 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
29434 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
29435 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
29436 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
29437 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
29438 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
29439 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
29440 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
29441 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
29442 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
29443 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
29444 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
29447 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
29448 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
29449 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
29452 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
29453 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
29454 part of patch provided by "optimist".
29457 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
29458 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
29459 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
29460 and confuse fewer users.
29463 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
29464 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
29465 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
29466 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
29467 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
29468 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
29469 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
29472 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
29473 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
29474 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
29475 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
29476 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
29477 other features and bug fixes.
29480 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
29483 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
29484 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
29485 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
29486 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
29487 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
29490 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
29491 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
29492 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
29493 failure message (oops).
29496 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
29497 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
29498 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
29499 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
29503 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
29504 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
29505 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
29506 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
29507 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
29508 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
29509 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29510 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
29511 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
29512 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
29513 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
29514 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
29515 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
29516 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
29517 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
29520 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
29521 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
29522 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
29523 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
29524 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
29525 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
29526 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
29527 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
29528 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
29529 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
29530 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
29531 Workaround for bug 1024.
29532 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
29536 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
29537 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
29538 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
29541 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
29543 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
29544 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
29545 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
29546 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
29547 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29550 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
29551 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
29552 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
29553 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
29554 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
29555 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
29556 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
29557 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
29558 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
29559 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
29562 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
29563 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
29564 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
29565 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
29566 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
29567 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
29568 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
29569 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
29572 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
29573 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
29574 a bunch of minor bugs.
29577 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
29578 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
29579 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29581 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
29582 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
29583 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
29584 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
29586 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
29590 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
29591 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
29592 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
29594 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29595 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
29597 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
29598 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
29600 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
29601 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
29602 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
29603 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
29604 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
29605 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
29606 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
29607 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
29609 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29610 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
29611 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
29613 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
29614 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
29615 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
29616 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
29617 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
29621 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
29622 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
29623 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
29624 of more minor bugs.
29626 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29627 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
29628 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
29629 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
29631 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29632 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
29633 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
29634 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29635 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
29636 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
29637 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
29638 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
29639 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
29640 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
29641 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
29642 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29643 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
29644 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
29645 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
29646 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
29647 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
29649 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
29650 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
29651 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
29652 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29654 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29655 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
29656 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
29659 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
29660 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
29661 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
29662 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
29663 addresses to fall out of the directory.
29666 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
29667 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
29668 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
29669 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
29671 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
29672 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
29673 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
29674 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
29675 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
29676 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
29677 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
29678 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
29679 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
29680 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
29681 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
29682 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
29683 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
29684 patch by Sebastian.
29685 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
29686 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
29689 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
29690 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
29691 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
29692 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
29693 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
29694 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
29696 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
29697 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
29698 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
29699 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
29700 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
29702 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
29705 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
29706 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
29708 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
29709 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
29710 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29711 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29712 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
29713 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
29715 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
29716 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29717 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
29718 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
29719 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
29720 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29721 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
29722 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
29723 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
29724 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
29725 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
29726 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
29730 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
29731 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
29732 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
29735 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
29736 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
29737 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
29740 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
29741 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
29742 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
29743 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
29744 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
29745 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
29746 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
29747 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
29748 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
29749 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
29750 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29751 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
29752 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
29753 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
29754 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
29755 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
29756 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
29757 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
29758 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
29759 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
29760 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
29761 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
29762 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
29763 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
29764 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
29766 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
29767 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
29768 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
29769 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
29770 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
29771 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
29772 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
29773 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
29774 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
29775 of 0. Suggested by lark.
29777 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
29778 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
29779 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
29780 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
29781 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
29784 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
29786 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
29787 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
29788 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
29789 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
29792 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
29793 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
29794 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
29795 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
29796 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
29798 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
29799 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
29800 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
29801 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
29804 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
29805 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29806 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
29807 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
29808 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
29809 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
29810 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
29811 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
29814 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
29815 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
29816 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
29817 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
29820 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
29821 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
29822 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
29823 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
29824 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
29825 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
29828 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
29829 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29830 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
29831 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
29832 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
29833 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29836 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
29837 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
29838 reported by Matt Edman.
29839 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
29841 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
29842 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
29843 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
29844 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
29846 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
29847 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29848 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
29849 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29850 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
29851 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
29852 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
29853 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
29854 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
29855 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
29856 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
29857 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
29858 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
29859 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29860 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
29861 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29862 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
29863 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
29864 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29867 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
29868 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
29869 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
29870 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
29873 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
29874 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
29875 the letter of C99's alias rules.
29878 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
29879 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
29880 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
29881 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
29883 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
29884 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
29885 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
29888 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
29889 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
29892 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
29893 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
29894 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
29895 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
29896 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
29897 reported by "wood".
29898 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
29899 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
29900 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
29901 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
29902 identify a connection.
29903 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
29904 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
29905 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
29906 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
29907 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
29908 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
29909 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29910 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
29911 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
29912 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
29914 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
29915 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
29916 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
29917 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
29918 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
29919 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
29920 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
29923 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
29924 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
29926 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
29927 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
29928 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
29929 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
29930 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
29931 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
29932 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29933 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
29935 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
29936 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
29937 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
29938 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
29939 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
29940 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
29941 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
29942 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
29943 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
29944 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
29945 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
29946 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
29947 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
29948 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
29949 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29950 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
29951 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
29952 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
29953 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
29954 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
29955 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
29956 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
29957 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
29958 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
29959 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
29960 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
29961 840. Patch from rovv.
29962 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
29963 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
29964 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
29966 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
29967 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
29968 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
29969 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
29970 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
29971 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
29972 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
29974 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
29975 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
29976 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
29979 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
29980 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
29982 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
29983 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
29984 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
29985 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
29986 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
29987 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
29988 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
29989 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
29990 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
29992 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
29994 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
29995 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
29999 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
30000 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
30001 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
30002 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
30003 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
30004 have had some time to upgrade.)
30007 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
30008 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
30011 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
30012 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
30013 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
30014 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
30015 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
30018 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
30019 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
30021 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
30022 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30023 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
30024 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
30025 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
30026 entirely. Patch from coderman.
30029 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
30030 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
30031 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
30032 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
30033 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
30034 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30035 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
30039 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
30040 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
30041 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
30042 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
30043 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
30044 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
30045 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
30048 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
30049 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
30050 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
30051 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
30052 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
30054 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
30055 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
30056 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
30057 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
30058 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
30059 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
30060 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30061 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
30062 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
30063 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
30067 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
30068 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
30069 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
30071 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
30072 without support for deprecated functions.
30073 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
30075 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30076 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
30077 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
30078 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
30079 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30080 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
30081 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
30082 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
30083 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
30084 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
30085 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
30086 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
30087 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
30088 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
30089 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
30090 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
30091 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
30092 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
30093 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
30094 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
30095 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
30096 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
30097 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
30099 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30100 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
30101 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
30102 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
30103 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
30104 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
30106 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
30107 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
30108 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
30109 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
30110 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
30112 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
30113 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
30114 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
30116 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
30117 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
30120 o Deprecated and removed features:
30121 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
30122 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
30123 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
30126 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30127 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
30128 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
30129 with log.h on Android.
30130 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
30131 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
30134 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
30135 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
30137 o New directory authorities:
30138 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
30142 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
30143 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
30144 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
30145 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
30146 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
30147 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30150 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
30151 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
30152 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
30153 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
30154 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
30155 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
30156 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
30157 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
30158 reported by "wood".
30159 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
30160 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
30161 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
30162 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
30165 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
30166 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
30168 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
30169 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
30170 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
30171 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
30172 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
30173 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
30174 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
30175 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
30176 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
30177 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
30178 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
30179 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
30180 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
30181 Implements proposal 148.
30182 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
30183 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
30184 system to do it for us.
30185 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
30186 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
30187 this fix will be slightly helpful.
30188 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
30189 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
30190 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
30191 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
30192 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
30193 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
30194 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
30195 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
30196 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
30199 o Minor features (controller):
30200 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
30201 been fetched and validated.
30202 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
30203 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
30204 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
30205 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
30206 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
30207 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
30210 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
30211 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30212 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
30213 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
30214 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
30216 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
30217 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
30218 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30219 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
30220 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
30221 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30222 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
30223 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
30224 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
30226 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30227 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
30228 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
30229 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
30230 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
30231 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
30232 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
30233 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
30235 o Deprecated and removed features:
30236 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
30238 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
30239 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
30240 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
30242 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30243 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
30244 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
30246 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
30247 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
30248 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
30249 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
30250 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
30251 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
30254 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
30255 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
30256 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
30257 fixes a variety of other issues.
30260 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
30261 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
30262 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
30263 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
30266 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
30267 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
30268 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
30269 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30272 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
30273 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30274 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
30278 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
30280 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
30281 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
30282 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
30283 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
30284 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
30285 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
30286 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
30288 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
30289 rest, and don't automatically fail.
30290 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
30291 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30292 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
30293 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
30295 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
30296 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
30297 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
30298 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
30299 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
30300 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
30301 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
30302 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
30303 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
30304 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
30306 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
30310 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
30311 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
30312 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
30314 o Minor features (controller):
30315 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
30319 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
30320 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
30321 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
30322 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
30323 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
30324 variety of other issues.
30327 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
30328 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
30329 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
30330 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
30331 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
30332 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
30333 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
30334 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
30335 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
30336 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
30337 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
30338 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
30341 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
30342 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30344 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30345 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
30346 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
30347 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
30348 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
30349 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
30350 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30351 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
30352 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
30353 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
30354 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
30355 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
30356 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
30357 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
30358 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
30362 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
30363 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
30364 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
30365 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
30366 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
30367 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
30368 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
30369 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
30370 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
30371 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
30372 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
30373 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
30374 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
30375 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
30376 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
30377 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
30378 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
30379 list. It has been gone for many months.
30380 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
30381 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
30382 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
30385 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30386 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
30387 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
30390 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
30391 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
30392 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
30393 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
30394 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
30395 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
30396 variety of other issues.
30399 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
30400 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
30401 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
30402 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
30403 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
30404 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
30405 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
30406 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
30407 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
30408 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
30409 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
30410 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
30411 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
30412 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
30415 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
30416 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
30417 Suggested by Lucky Green.
30418 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
30419 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
30420 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
30421 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
30422 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
30423 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
30425 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
30426 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
30428 o Hidden service performance improvements:
30429 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
30430 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
30431 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
30432 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
30433 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
30434 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
30435 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
30436 faster after restart.
30439 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
30440 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
30441 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
30442 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
30443 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
30444 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
30445 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
30446 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
30447 840. Patch from rovv.
30448 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
30449 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
30450 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
30451 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
30452 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
30453 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
30454 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
30455 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
30456 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
30458 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
30459 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
30460 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
30461 have already been marked for close.
30462 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
30463 introduction points.
30464 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
30465 memory performance during directory parsing.
30466 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
30467 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
30468 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
30469 because of a pending download.
30472 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
30473 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
30474 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
30475 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30478 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
30479 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
30480 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
30481 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
30482 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
30483 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
30484 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
30485 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
30486 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
30487 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
30488 lookups more reliable.
30489 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
30490 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
30491 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
30492 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
30493 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
30494 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
30495 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30498 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
30499 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
30500 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30501 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
30502 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
30503 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
30504 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
30505 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
30506 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
30507 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
30508 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
30510 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
30511 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
30512 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
30513 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
30514 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
30515 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30516 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
30517 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
30518 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30521 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
30522 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
30523 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
30524 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
30525 locked down these days.
30526 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
30527 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
30528 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
30529 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
30530 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
30532 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
30533 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
30534 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
30535 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
30536 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
30537 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
30538 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
30539 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
30540 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
30541 people find host:port too confusing.
30542 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
30543 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30544 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
30547 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30549 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
30550 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
30551 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
30552 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
30553 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
30555 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
30556 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
30557 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
30558 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
30559 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
30560 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
30561 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
30562 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
30563 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
30564 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
30565 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
30566 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
30568 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
30569 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
30570 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
30571 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
30572 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
30573 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
30574 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30575 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
30576 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
30578 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
30579 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
30580 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
30581 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
30582 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
30583 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30584 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
30585 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
30586 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
30587 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
30588 bug 820, reported by seeess.
30589 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
30590 list. It has been gone for many months.
30592 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30593 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
30594 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
30595 actual mistakes we're making here.
30596 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
30597 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
30598 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
30599 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
30602 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
30603 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
30604 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
30605 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30608 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
30609 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
30610 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
30611 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
30612 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
30613 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
30615 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
30616 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
30617 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
30618 pointed out by rovv.
30621 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
30622 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30623 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
30624 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30625 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
30626 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
30627 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
30628 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
30629 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
30630 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30631 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
30632 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
30633 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
30634 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30635 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
30636 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
30637 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
30638 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
30639 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
30640 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
30641 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
30644 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
30645 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
30646 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
30647 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
30648 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
30649 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
30650 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30653 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
30655 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
30656 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
30657 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
30658 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
30659 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
30660 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
30661 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
30663 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
30664 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
30665 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
30666 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
30667 known descriptor before building circuits.
30669 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
30670 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
30671 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
30672 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
30673 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
30674 identify a connection.
30675 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
30676 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
30677 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
30679 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
30680 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
30681 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
30682 pointed out by rovv.
30685 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
30686 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30687 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
30688 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
30689 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
30690 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30691 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
30692 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30693 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
30694 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
30695 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
30696 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
30697 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
30698 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
30699 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30702 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
30703 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
30704 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
30705 answer sections match.
30706 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
30707 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
30710 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
30711 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30714 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
30715 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
30716 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
30718 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
30719 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
30720 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30723 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
30724 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
30725 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
30726 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
30729 o Removed features:
30730 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
30731 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
30734 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
30735 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
30736 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
30737 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
30738 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
30739 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
30741 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
30742 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
30743 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
30746 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
30747 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
30748 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
30749 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
30750 be sent using an "early" cell.
30753 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
30754 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
30755 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
30756 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
30757 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
30758 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
30759 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
30762 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
30763 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
30764 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
30765 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
30766 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
30767 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
30768 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
30769 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
30770 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
30771 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
30772 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
30773 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
30774 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
30775 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
30776 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
30777 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
30780 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
30781 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
30782 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
30783 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
30784 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
30785 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
30786 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
30787 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
30788 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
30790 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
30791 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
30792 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
30793 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
30794 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
30797 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30798 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
30799 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
30800 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
30802 o Removed features:
30803 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
30804 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
30808 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
30810 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
30811 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
30812 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
30815 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
30816 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
30817 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30820 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
30821 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
30822 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
30823 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
30824 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30825 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
30826 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
30827 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
30828 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30829 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
30830 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
30831 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
30832 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
30833 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
30834 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
30835 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
30836 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
30837 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
30838 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
30839 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
30840 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
30841 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
30842 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
30845 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
30846 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
30848 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
30849 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
30850 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
30851 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
30852 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
30853 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
30854 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
30856 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
30857 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
30858 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
30859 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
30860 found by Geoff Goodell.
30863 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
30864 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
30865 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
30866 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
30867 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
30868 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
30871 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
30872 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
30873 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
30876 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
30877 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
30878 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
30879 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
30880 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30881 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
30882 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
30883 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
30884 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30885 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
30886 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
30887 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
30888 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
30889 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
30892 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
30893 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
30894 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
30896 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
30897 fingerprints with or without space.
30898 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
30899 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
30900 partway through and wants to catch up.
30901 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
30902 state to start out in.
30905 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
30906 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
30907 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30908 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
30909 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
30912 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
30913 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
30914 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
30915 some of the connection attempts fail.
30916 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
30917 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
30918 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
30919 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
30920 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
30921 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
30923 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
30924 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
30925 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
30928 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
30929 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
30930 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
30931 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
30932 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
30933 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
30934 and adds a variety of smaller features.
30937 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
30938 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
30939 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
30940 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
30942 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
30943 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
30944 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
30945 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
30947 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
30948 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
30949 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
30950 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
30951 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
30952 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
30953 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
30956 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
30957 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
30958 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
30959 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
30960 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
30962 o Memory fixes and improvements:
30963 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
30964 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
30965 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
30966 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
30967 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
30968 on a typical directory cache.
30969 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
30970 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
30971 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
30972 and may reduce fragmentation.
30973 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
30974 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
30975 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
30977 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
30978 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
30979 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
30981 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
30982 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
30986 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
30987 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
30988 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
30989 done that for a long time.
30990 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
30991 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
30992 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
30993 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
30996 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
30997 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
30998 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
30999 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
31000 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
31001 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
31003 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
31004 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
31005 output to messages of warning and error severity.
31006 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
31007 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
31008 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
31009 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
31010 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
31011 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
31012 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
31013 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
31014 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
31015 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
31016 directory requests we should expect to see.
31017 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
31019 - Lots of new unit tests.
31020 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
31021 two parallel lists in lockstep.
31024 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
31025 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
31026 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31029 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
31030 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
31031 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
31032 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
31033 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
31034 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
31035 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
31038 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
31039 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
31040 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
31044 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
31045 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
31046 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
31049 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
31050 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
31051 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
31053 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
31054 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
31056 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
31057 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
31058 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
31059 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
31060 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31061 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
31062 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
31064 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
31065 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
31066 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
31067 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
31068 - Fix compile on Windows.
31071 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
31072 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
31073 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
31074 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
31075 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
31076 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
31077 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
31080 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
31081 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
31084 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
31085 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
31086 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
31087 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
31089 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
31090 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
31091 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
31094 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
31095 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
31096 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
31097 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
31101 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
31102 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
31103 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
31104 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
31106 o Major security fixes:
31107 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
31108 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
31109 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
31110 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
31111 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
31114 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
31115 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31118 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
31119 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
31122 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
31123 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
31126 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
31127 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
31128 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
31131 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
31132 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31135 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
31136 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
31137 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
31138 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
31139 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
31141 o New directory authorities:
31142 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
31143 it has been down for months.
31144 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
31148 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
31149 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
31151 o Minor features (security):
31152 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
31153 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
31154 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
31157 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31158 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
31159 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
31160 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
31161 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
31162 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
31163 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
31164 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
31165 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31167 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
31168 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
31169 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31170 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
31171 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
31172 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
31173 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31174 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
31175 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
31177 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31178 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
31179 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
31180 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
31181 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
31182 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
31183 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
31184 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
31185 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
31186 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
31187 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31188 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
31189 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
31190 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
31191 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
31192 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
31193 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
31194 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
31195 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
31198 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
31199 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31200 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
31201 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
31204 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
31205 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
31206 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
31207 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
31210 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
31211 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31212 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
31213 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
31214 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
31217 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
31218 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
31219 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
31220 certain censored countries by default again.
31223 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
31224 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31225 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
31226 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
31227 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31228 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
31229 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
31230 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
31232 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31233 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
31234 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
31235 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
31236 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
31237 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
31238 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
31239 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
31240 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
31241 a directory. Fix from lodger.
31243 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31244 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
31245 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
31246 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
31247 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
31248 RelayBandwidth* values.
31249 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
31250 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
31251 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
31252 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
31253 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
31254 get_interface_address6().
31255 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
31256 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
31257 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
31259 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
31260 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
31261 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
31262 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31263 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
31264 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
31265 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31266 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
31267 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
31268 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31271 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
31272 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
31273 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
31276 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
31277 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31278 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
31279 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
31280 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
31283 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
31284 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
31285 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
31286 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
31287 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
31288 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
31289 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
31290 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
31291 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
31294 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
31295 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
31296 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
31297 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
31300 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
31301 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
31302 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
31303 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
31304 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
31305 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
31306 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
31309 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
31310 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
31311 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
31312 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
31313 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
31314 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
31315 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
31317 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
31318 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
31319 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
31320 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
31321 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
31324 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
31325 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
31326 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
31327 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
31328 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
31329 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
31330 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31331 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
31332 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
31333 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
31334 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
31335 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
31336 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
31337 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
31338 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
31339 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31340 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
31341 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31342 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31343 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
31344 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
31345 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
31346 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
31347 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
31348 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
31349 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
31351 o Minor features (performance):
31352 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
31354 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
31355 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
31356 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
31357 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
31358 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
31359 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
31360 non-system include paths.
31361 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
31362 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
31365 o Minor features (other):
31366 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
31368 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
31369 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
31370 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
31373 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
31374 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
31375 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
31376 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
31378 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
31379 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
31380 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
31381 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
31382 Should fix bug 537.
31383 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
31384 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
31385 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31386 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
31387 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31389 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31390 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
31391 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
31392 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
31393 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
31394 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
31395 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
31396 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
31397 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
31398 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
31399 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
31400 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
31401 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
31402 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
31403 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
31404 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31405 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
31406 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
31407 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
31408 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
31409 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
31410 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
31411 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
31412 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
31413 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
31416 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31417 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
31418 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
31422 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
31423 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
31424 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
31425 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
31426 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
31429 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
31430 Tor's x509 certificates.
31433 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
31434 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
31435 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31436 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
31437 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
31438 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31440 o Minor features (security):
31441 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
31442 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
31444 o Minor features (directory authority):
31445 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
31446 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
31447 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
31448 bandwidthburst values.
31450 o Minor features (controller):
31451 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
31452 processes from running us out of memory.
31454 o Minor features (misc):
31455 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
31456 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
31457 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
31458 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
31460 o Deprecated features (controller):
31461 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
31462 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
31463 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
31466 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
31467 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
31469 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
31470 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
31471 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31472 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
31473 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
31474 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31475 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
31476 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
31478 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
31479 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31480 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
31481 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31482 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
31483 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
31484 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
31485 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
31487 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
31488 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
31489 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
31490 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
31491 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31492 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
31493 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31494 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
31495 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31496 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
31497 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
31498 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31500 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31501 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
31503 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
31504 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
31505 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
31506 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
31507 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
31508 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
31511 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
31512 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
31513 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
31514 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
31515 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
31517 o New directory authorities:
31518 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
31522 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
31523 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
31524 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
31525 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
31526 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
31527 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
31528 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
31529 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
31533 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
31534 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
31535 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
31536 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
31537 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
31538 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
31539 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
31540 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
31541 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
31542 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
31545 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
31546 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
31547 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
31548 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
31552 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
31553 the request isn't encrypted.
31554 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
31555 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
31556 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
31557 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
31558 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
31561 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
31562 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
31565 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
31568 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
31569 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
31570 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
31572 o New directory authorities:
31573 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
31576 o Major performance improvements:
31577 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
31578 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
31579 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
31580 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
31581 memory fragmentation.
31584 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
31585 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
31586 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
31587 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
31588 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
31589 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
31590 bodies when they receive them.
31591 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
31592 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
31593 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
31595 o Minor performance improvements:
31596 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
31597 of them were actually distinct.
31598 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
31599 interested in a given message.
31602 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
31603 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
31604 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
31605 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
31606 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
31607 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
31608 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
31609 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
31610 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
31611 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
31612 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
31614 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
31615 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
31616 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
31617 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
31618 this country" and "1 person from this country".
31619 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
31620 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
31621 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
31622 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
31623 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
31625 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
31626 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
31627 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
31629 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
31630 but client versions are not.
31631 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
31632 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
31634 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
31635 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
31636 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
31637 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
31638 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
31640 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
31641 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
31642 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
31645 o Minor features (controller):
31646 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
31647 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
31648 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
31649 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
31651 o Minor features (directory authorities):
31652 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
31653 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
31654 running a test network on a single host.
31655 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
31656 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
31658 o Minor features (bridges):
31659 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
31660 unencrypted connections.
31662 o Minor features (other):
31663 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
31664 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
31665 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
31666 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
31669 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
31670 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
31671 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
31672 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31675 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
31676 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
31677 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
31678 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
31679 on network address.
31682 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
31683 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
31684 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
31685 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
31686 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
31687 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
31688 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
31689 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
31690 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
31691 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
31692 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
31693 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
31696 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
31697 rebuild our server descriptor.
31698 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
31699 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
31700 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
31701 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
31702 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
31703 nonstandard integer types.
31704 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
31705 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
31706 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
31707 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
31708 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
31710 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
31711 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
31712 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
31713 when they receive them.
31714 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
31715 This includes some 64-bit systems.
31716 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
31717 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
31718 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
31719 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
31720 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
31721 router_get_by_hexdigest().
31722 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
31723 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
31727 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
31728 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
31729 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31732 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
31733 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
31734 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
31735 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
31736 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
31737 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
31738 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
31739 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31742 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
31743 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
31744 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
31745 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
31747 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
31748 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
31751 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
31752 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
31755 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
31757 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
31758 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
31760 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
31761 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
31762 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
31763 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31764 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
31765 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
31766 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
31767 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31768 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
31769 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
31773 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
31774 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
31775 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
31778 - Make the unit tests build again.
31779 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
31780 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
31781 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
31782 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
31783 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
31784 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31785 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
31786 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
31787 the next one as a duplicate.
31790 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
31791 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
31792 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
31793 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
31796 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
31797 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
31798 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
31801 o New directory authorities:
31802 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
31806 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
31807 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
31808 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
31809 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
31810 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
31811 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
31812 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
31814 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
31815 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
31817 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
31818 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
31819 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
31820 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
31821 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
31822 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
31824 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
31825 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
31826 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31827 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
31828 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
31829 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31832 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
31833 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
31834 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
31835 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
31836 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
31837 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
31838 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
31839 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
31840 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
31841 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
31842 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
31843 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
31844 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
31845 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
31846 where Tor is blocked.
31847 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
31848 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
31849 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
31850 to a file periodically.
31851 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
31852 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
31853 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
31857 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
31858 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
31859 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
31860 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
31861 in the relevant networkstatus document.
31862 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
31863 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
31864 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31865 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
31866 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
31867 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
31868 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
31869 by Karsten Loesing.
31870 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
31871 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
31872 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
31873 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
31874 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
31875 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31876 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
31877 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
31878 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
31879 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31880 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
31881 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
31882 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
31883 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31884 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
31885 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
31886 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
31887 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
31888 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
31889 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31890 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31891 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
31892 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31893 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
31894 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
31895 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31896 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
31897 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31900 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
31901 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
31902 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
31903 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
31904 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
31905 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
31906 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
31907 even if your DirPort isn't on.
31908 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
31909 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
31910 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
31912 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
31913 multiple controller passwords.
31914 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
31915 router based on the router's purpose.
31916 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
31917 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
31918 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
31919 the approved-routers file.
31922 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
31923 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
31924 well as a few minor bugs.
31927 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
31928 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
31929 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
31931 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31932 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
31933 rebuild our server descriptor.
31935 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31936 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
31937 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
31938 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
31939 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
31940 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
31941 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
31942 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
31943 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
31944 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
31946 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
31947 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
31948 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
31949 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
31950 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
31951 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
31952 then be flexible about families.
31955 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
31956 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
31957 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
31961 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
31962 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
31963 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
31964 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
31965 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
31968 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
31969 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
31970 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
31971 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
31972 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31975 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
31976 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
31978 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
31979 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
31980 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
31981 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
31982 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
31983 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
31984 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31986 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
31987 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
31988 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
31989 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
31992 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
31993 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
31996 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
31997 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
31998 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32001 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
32002 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
32003 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
32004 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
32005 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
32006 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
32007 addresses many more minor issues.
32009 o New directory authorities:
32010 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
32013 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
32014 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
32015 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
32016 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
32018 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
32019 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
32020 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
32021 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
32022 and are reaching it.
32023 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
32024 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
32025 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
32026 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
32027 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
32028 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
32031 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
32032 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
32034 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
32035 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
32036 no longer work for clients.
32037 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
32038 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
32040 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
32041 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
32042 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
32043 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
32044 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
32045 enough directory information to build a circuit.
32046 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
32047 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
32048 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
32049 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
32050 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
32051 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
32053 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
32054 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
32055 requests for all of them.
32056 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
32058 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
32059 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
32060 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
32062 o New requirements:
32063 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
32064 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
32068 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
32069 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
32070 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
32071 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
32072 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
32073 networkstatuses that we already have.
32074 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
32075 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
32076 we start knowing some directory caches.
32077 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
32078 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
32079 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
32080 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
32081 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
32082 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
32083 Good in combination with --hash-password.
32084 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
32085 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
32087 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
32088 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
32089 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
32091 o Minor features (bridges):
32092 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
32093 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
32094 back to trying the bridge directly.
32095 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
32096 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
32098 o Minor features (controller):
32099 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
32100 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
32101 report the value as a "minimum skew."
32104 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
32105 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
32109 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
32110 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
32111 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
32112 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
32113 reported by tup and ioerror.
32114 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
32115 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
32117 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
32118 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
32120 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
32121 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
32122 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
32124 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
32125 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32126 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
32127 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32128 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
32129 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32130 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
32132 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
32133 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
32134 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32136 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
32137 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
32138 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
32139 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
32140 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
32143 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
32144 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
32145 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
32146 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
32147 lists for a few hours each day.
32149 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32150 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
32151 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
32152 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
32153 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
32154 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
32155 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
32156 rend_process_relay_cell().
32158 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32159 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
32160 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
32161 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
32162 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
32163 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
32164 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
32165 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
32167 o Major bugfixes (other):
32168 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
32169 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
32170 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
32171 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
32172 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
32173 circuit cannibalization).
32174 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
32175 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
32176 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
32177 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
32178 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
32179 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
32182 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
32183 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
32185 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
32186 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
32187 absent. Resolves bug 467.
32188 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
32189 a way to trigger this remotely.)
32190 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
32191 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
32192 were reporting the dir port.)
32193 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32194 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
32195 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
32196 the future. Fixes bug 434.
32197 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
32199 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
32200 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
32201 the onion key from getting rotated.
32202 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32203 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32204 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32205 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
32206 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32207 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
32208 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32209 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
32210 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
32213 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
32214 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
32215 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
32216 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
32217 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
32218 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
32220 o Major features (directory system):
32221 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
32222 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
32223 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
32224 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
32225 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
32226 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
32227 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
32228 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
32229 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
32230 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
32231 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
32232 Partially implements proposal 122.
32233 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
32234 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
32237 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
32238 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
32239 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
32240 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
32242 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
32243 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
32244 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
32245 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
32246 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
32247 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32248 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
32249 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
32250 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32252 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
32253 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
32255 - Allow certificates to include an address.
32256 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
32257 and download operations.
32258 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
32259 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
32260 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
32261 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
32262 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
32263 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
32265 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
32266 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
32269 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
32270 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
32271 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
32272 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
32274 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
32275 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
32276 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
32278 o Minor features (performance):
32279 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
32280 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
32281 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
32282 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
32283 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
32284 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
32285 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
32288 o Minor features (compilation):
32289 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
32290 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
32292 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
32293 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
32294 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
32295 stick around indefinitely.
32296 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
32298 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
32299 v3 directory authority.
32300 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
32301 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
32303 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
32304 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
32305 "moria on moria:9031."
32306 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
32307 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
32308 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
32309 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
32310 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
32311 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
32312 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
32313 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
32315 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
32316 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
32317 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
32318 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
32319 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
32320 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
32321 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
32322 downloads than for other types.
32324 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
32325 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
32327 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
32328 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
32329 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32331 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32332 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
32333 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32334 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
32335 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
32336 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
32337 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
32338 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
32340 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32341 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
32342 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
32343 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
32344 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32345 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
32346 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
32347 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32348 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
32349 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
32350 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
32352 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
32353 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
32356 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32357 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
32358 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
32359 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
32360 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
32361 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
32362 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
32363 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
32364 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
32365 so that they all take the same named flags.
32368 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
32369 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
32370 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
32373 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
32374 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
32375 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
32376 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
32377 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
32378 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
32380 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
32381 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
32382 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
32383 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
32384 annotations along with descriptors.
32385 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
32386 source, and its purpose.
32387 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
32389 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
32390 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
32391 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
32392 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
32395 o Major features (directory authorities):
32396 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
32398 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
32399 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
32400 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
32401 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
32402 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
32403 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
32405 o Major features (v3 directory system):
32406 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
32407 and download the descriptors listed in them.
32408 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
32409 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
32410 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
32412 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32413 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
32414 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
32415 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
32418 o Major bugfixes (performance):
32419 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
32420 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
32421 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
32422 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
32424 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
32425 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
32426 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
32427 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
32428 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
32429 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
32431 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
32432 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
32434 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
32435 certificate is requested.
32436 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
32437 certificate requests.
32439 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
32440 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
32441 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
32442 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
32445 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32446 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
32447 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
32448 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32450 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
32451 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
32453 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
32454 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
32455 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32456 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
32457 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
32458 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
32459 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
32460 downloads more sensible.
32461 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
32462 another when serving certificates.
32464 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32465 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
32466 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
32467 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
32469 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
32470 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32471 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
32473 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
32474 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32476 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
32477 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
32478 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
32479 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
32480 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32482 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
32483 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
32484 WARN-severity events.
32485 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
32486 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
32487 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
32489 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
32490 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
32491 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
32493 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
32494 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
32495 circuit cannibalization).
32497 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32498 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
32499 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
32500 new module, networkstatus.c.
32501 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
32502 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
32503 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
32504 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
32505 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
32506 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
32507 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
32508 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
32509 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
32511 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
32513 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
32514 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32517 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
32518 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
32519 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
32520 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
32522 o New directory authorities:
32523 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
32524 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
32526 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
32527 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
32528 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32530 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
32531 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
32532 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
32533 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
32534 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
32535 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
32536 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
32537 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
32538 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
32539 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
32540 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32542 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32543 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
32544 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
32545 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
32546 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
32547 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
32548 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
32549 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
32550 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
32552 o Minor features (security):
32553 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
32554 address maps to an internal address space.
32555 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
32556 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
32558 o Minor features (guard nodes):
32559 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
32560 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
32561 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
32562 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
32564 o Minor features (speed):
32565 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
32566 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
32567 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
32568 on big-endian hosts.)
32570 o Minor features (controller):
32571 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
32572 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
32573 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
32574 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
32577 o Removed features:
32578 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
32579 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
32580 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
32581 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
32582 implementation of proposal 104.
32583 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
32584 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
32585 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
32586 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
32587 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
32588 patch from Karsten Loesing.
32589 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
32590 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
32593 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
32594 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
32595 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32596 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
32597 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32598 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
32599 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32600 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
32601 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
32602 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32603 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
32604 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
32605 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
32606 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32607 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
32608 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
32609 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
32610 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32611 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
32612 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
32614 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32615 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
32616 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
32618 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
32619 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
32620 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
32621 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
32624 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
32625 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
32626 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
32627 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
32628 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
32631 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
32632 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
32635 o Major bugfixes (security):
32636 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
32637 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
32638 become more of a headache than it's worth.
32640 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
32641 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
32642 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
32644 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
32645 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
32646 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
32647 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
32648 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
32649 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
32651 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
32652 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
32653 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
32654 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
32655 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
32657 o Minor features (controller):
32658 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
32659 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32660 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
32661 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
32663 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
32664 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
32665 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
32666 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
32667 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
32668 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
32669 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
32670 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
32672 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32673 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
32674 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
32675 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
32676 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
32677 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
32678 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
32679 if we ran off the end of the list.
32680 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
32681 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
32682 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
32683 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
32684 every time we change any piece of our config.
32685 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32686 encourage people using them to stop.
32687 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
32689 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
32690 servers to choose a circuit.
32691 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
32692 unparseable piece of it.
32695 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
32696 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
32697 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
32698 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
32701 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
32702 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
32703 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
32704 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
32705 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
32707 o New directory authorities:
32708 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
32711 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
32712 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
32713 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
32714 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
32716 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
32717 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
32718 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
32720 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
32721 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
32722 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
32723 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
32724 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
32725 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
32727 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
32728 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
32729 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32732 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
32733 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
32734 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
32735 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
32739 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
32740 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
32741 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
32742 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
32744 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
32745 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
32747 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
32748 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
32749 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
32750 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
32751 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
32752 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
32753 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32754 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
32755 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32756 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
32759 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
32760 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
32761 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
32762 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
32763 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
32764 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
32766 o Removed features:
32767 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
32768 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
32769 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
32770 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
32773 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
32774 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
32775 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
32776 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
32777 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
32780 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
32781 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
32782 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
32783 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
32784 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
32785 reported by lodger.
32787 o Minor features (directory servers):
32788 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
32789 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
32791 o Minor features (directory voting):
32792 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
32795 o Minor features (security):
32796 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
32797 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
32798 encourage people using them to stop.
32800 o Minor features (controller):
32801 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
32802 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32803 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
32804 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
32805 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
32806 cookie authentication file, and config option
32807 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
32809 o Minor features (unit testing):
32810 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
32811 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
32812 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
32813 logging for the unit tests.
32815 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32816 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
32817 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
32818 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
32819 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
32820 every time we change any piece of our config.
32821 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
32822 the future. Fixes bug 434.
32823 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
32825 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
32826 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
32827 the onion key from getting rotated.
32828 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
32829 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
32830 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
32833 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32834 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
32835 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
32837 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
32838 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
32839 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
32840 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
32843 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
32844 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
32845 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
32846 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
32847 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
32848 TorK, etc. Or worse.
32850 o Major security fixes:
32851 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
32852 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
32855 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
32856 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
32857 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
32858 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
32860 o Major security fixes:
32861 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
32862 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
32864 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
32865 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
32868 o Minor features (performance):
32869 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
32870 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
32871 performance-intensive.
32872 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
32873 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
32874 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
32875 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
32876 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
32877 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
32881 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
32882 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
32883 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
32884 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
32888 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
32889 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
32890 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
32891 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
32892 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
32894 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
32895 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
32896 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
32897 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
32899 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
32900 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
32901 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
32902 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
32903 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
32905 o Major features (experimental):
32906 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
32907 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
32908 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
32909 handling before it's ready for use.
32912 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
32913 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
32914 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
32915 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32916 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
32917 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
32919 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
32920 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
32921 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
32922 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
32923 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
32925 o Major bugfixes (directory):
32926 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
32927 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32929 o Minor features (controller):
32930 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
32931 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
32932 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
32933 from Robert Hogan.)
32934 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
32935 from Robert Hogan.)
32936 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
32937 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
32939 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
32940 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
32941 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
32942 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
32943 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
32944 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
32945 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
32948 o Minor features (misc):
32949 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
32951 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
32952 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
32953 the authority identity key.
32954 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
32956 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
32957 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
32958 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
32961 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
32962 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
32963 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
32964 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
32965 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
32966 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
32967 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
32968 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
32970 o Performance improvements:
32971 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
32973 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
32974 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
32977 o Deprecated and removed features:
32978 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
32979 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
32980 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
32981 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
32983 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
32984 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
32985 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32986 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
32987 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
32988 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32989 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
32990 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
32991 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
32994 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
32995 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
32996 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
32997 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
32998 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
33000 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
33001 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
33004 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33005 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
33006 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
33007 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
33008 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
33009 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
33010 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
33011 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
33012 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
33015 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
33016 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
33017 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
33018 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
33020 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
33021 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
33023 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33024 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
33025 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
33026 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
33027 routerlist while inserting a new router.
33028 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
33029 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
33031 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
33032 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
33033 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
33035 o Major bugfixes (security):
33036 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
33038 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
33039 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
33040 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
33041 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
33042 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
33043 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
33044 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
33045 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
33046 guard list unless we need to.
33048 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
33049 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
33050 don't get overused as guards.
33052 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33053 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
33054 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
33055 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
33056 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
33058 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33059 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
33060 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
33063 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33064 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33065 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
33066 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
33067 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
33068 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
33069 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
33070 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
33073 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
33074 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
33075 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
33076 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
33078 o Minor features (directory):
33079 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
33080 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
33081 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
33082 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
33084 o Minor build issues:
33085 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
33086 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
33087 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
33088 in the tarball, not as "x".
33091 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
33092 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
33093 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
33094 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
33095 forward on a lot of fronts.
33097 o Major features, server usability:
33098 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
33099 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
33100 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
33101 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
33103 o Major features, client usability:
33104 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
33105 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
33106 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
33107 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
33108 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
33109 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
33110 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
33111 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
33113 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
33114 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
33115 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
33116 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
33117 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
33118 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
33120 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
33121 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
33122 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
33124 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
33125 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
33126 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
33127 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
33128 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
33130 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
33131 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
33132 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
33133 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
33135 o Major features, other:
33136 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
33137 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
33138 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
33139 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
33140 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
33143 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
33144 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
33145 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
33148 o Minor fixes (resource management):
33149 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
33150 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
33151 our allocated connection limit.
33152 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
33153 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
33154 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
33155 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
33156 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
33158 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
33159 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
33160 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
33162 o Minor features (build):
33163 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
33164 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
33165 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
33166 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
33168 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
33169 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
33170 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
33171 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
33172 Use this version consistently in log messages.
33174 o Minor features (logging):
33175 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
33176 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
33177 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
33178 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
33179 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
33182 o Minor features (directory system):
33183 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
33184 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
33185 not to serve V2 directory information.
33186 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
33187 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
33188 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
33190 o Minor features (controller):
33191 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
33192 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
33194 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
33195 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
33196 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
33197 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
33198 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
33199 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
33201 o Minor features (hidden services):
33202 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
33203 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
33204 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
33205 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
33207 o Minor features (other):
33209 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
33210 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
33211 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
33212 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
33213 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
33214 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
33215 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
33216 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
33217 longer a completely silly thing to do.
33218 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
33219 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
33220 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
33221 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
33223 o Removed features:
33224 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
33225 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
33226 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
33227 back an error and close the connection.
33228 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
33229 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
33232 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
33233 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
33234 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
33235 makes the log messages nicer.
33236 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
33237 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
33238 partial results on small file reads.
33240 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33241 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
33242 more often than they are allowed to appear.
33243 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
33244 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
33246 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
33247 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
33248 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
33249 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
33251 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33252 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
33253 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
33254 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
33255 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
33256 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
33257 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
33258 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33259 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
33260 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
33261 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
33263 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
33264 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
33265 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
33267 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
33268 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
33269 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
33270 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
33272 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33273 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
33274 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
33276 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
33277 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
33280 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33281 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
33282 implicit in other procedure arguments.
33283 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
33284 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
33285 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
33286 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
33287 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
33288 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
33289 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
33290 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
33291 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
33294 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
33295 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
33296 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
33297 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
33299 o Directory authority changes:
33300 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
33301 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
33302 or use hidden services.
33304 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33305 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
33306 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
33307 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
33308 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
33309 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
33310 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
33311 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
33312 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
33315 o Major bugfixes (security):
33316 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
33317 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
33318 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
33320 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
33321 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
33322 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
33323 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
33324 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
33325 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
33326 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
33327 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
33328 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
33329 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
33332 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
33333 purpose=controller.
33334 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
33335 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
33337 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
33338 having a hard time downloading.
33339 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
33340 partial results on small file reads.
33341 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
33342 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
33343 the gaps in the store get very large.
33346 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
33347 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
33349 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
33350 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
33353 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
33354 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
33355 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
33356 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
33357 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
33358 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
33360 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
33361 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
33362 free speech on the Internet.
33365 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
33366 get one we don't recognize.
33367 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
33368 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
33371 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
33373 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
33374 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
33375 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
33376 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
33379 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
33380 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
33383 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
33384 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
33385 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
33386 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
33387 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
33388 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
33389 ask for GUARDS too.
33392 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
33393 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
33394 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
33395 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
33396 on Win98 and friends again.
33398 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33399 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
33400 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
33403 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
33404 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
33405 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
33406 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
33407 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
33408 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
33409 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
33410 and maybe also bug 397.)
33412 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33413 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
33414 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
33416 o Minor bugfixes (server):
33417 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
33420 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
33421 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
33422 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
33423 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
33424 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
33426 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33427 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
33428 load on authorities.
33430 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33431 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
33432 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
33433 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
33435 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
33437 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
33438 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
33439 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
33440 the last of bug 326.)
33441 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
33442 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
33446 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
33447 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33448 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
33449 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
33450 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
33451 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
33452 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
33454 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
33455 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
33457 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33458 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
33459 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
33461 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
33462 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
33463 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
33465 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33466 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
33467 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
33468 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
33470 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
33471 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
33473 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
33474 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
33475 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
33478 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33479 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
33480 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
33481 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
33482 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
33483 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
33484 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
33485 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
33486 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
33487 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
33488 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
33489 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
33490 other than file-not-found.
33491 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
33492 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
33493 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
33494 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
33495 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
33496 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
33497 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
33498 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
33499 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
33500 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
33501 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
33502 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
33503 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
33504 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
33505 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
33507 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
33509 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
33510 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
33512 o Minor features (controller):
33513 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
33514 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
33515 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
33517 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
33518 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33519 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
33520 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
33521 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
33522 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
33523 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
33524 connected or resolved cell.
33526 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33527 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
33528 some profiles, but not others.)
33529 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
33530 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
33531 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
33534 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
33536 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
33537 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
33538 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
33539 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
33540 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
33541 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
33542 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
33543 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
33544 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
33545 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
33546 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
33547 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
33548 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
33549 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
33550 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
33552 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
33555 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
33556 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
33557 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
33558 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
33559 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
33560 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
33561 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
33563 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
33564 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
33565 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
33566 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
33567 buckets go absurdly negative.
33568 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
33569 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
33572 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
33573 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
33574 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
33575 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
33576 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
33577 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
33578 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
33579 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
33582 o Major bugfixes (other):
33583 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
33584 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
33585 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
33586 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
33588 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
33590 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
33591 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
33593 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
33594 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
33595 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
33596 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
33597 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
33598 to wait for 0.2.0.)
33600 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
33601 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
33602 possible memory-stomping bugs.
33603 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
33604 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
33606 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
33607 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
33608 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
33609 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
33610 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
33611 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
33613 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33614 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
33615 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
33616 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
33618 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
33619 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
33620 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
33621 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
33622 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
33623 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
33624 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
33625 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
33626 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
33627 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
33628 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
33629 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
33630 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
33632 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
33633 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
33634 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
33635 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
33636 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
33637 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
33638 to the resulting address.
33641 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
33642 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
33643 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
33644 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
33647 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
33648 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
33650 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
33651 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
33652 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
33653 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
33654 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
33655 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
33656 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
33657 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
33658 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
33659 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
33660 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
33661 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
33662 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
33663 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
33664 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
33665 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
33666 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
33669 o Minor features (controller):
33670 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
33671 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
33672 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
33673 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
33674 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
33675 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
33676 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
33680 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
33682 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
33683 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
33684 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
33685 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
33686 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
33687 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
33690 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
33691 weren't planning to resolve.
33692 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
33693 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
33694 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
33695 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
33696 the controller from learning about current events.
33698 o Minor features (more controller status events):
33699 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
33700 learn when our address changes.
33701 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
33702 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
33703 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
33704 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
33706 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
33707 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
33708 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
33709 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
33710 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
33711 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
33712 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
33713 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
33714 are accepted by a directory.
33715 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
33716 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
33717 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
33718 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
33719 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
33721 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
33722 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
33723 about changes to DNS server status.
33725 o Minor features (directory):
33726 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
33727 too much load to the exit nodes.
33730 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
33732 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
33733 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
33734 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
33735 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
33736 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
33738 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
33739 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
33740 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
33742 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
33743 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
33744 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
33745 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
33746 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
33747 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
33748 config options if you like.
33750 o Minor features (config and docs):
33751 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
33752 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
33753 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
33754 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
33755 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
33757 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
33758 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
33759 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
33760 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
33761 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
33763 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
33764 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
33765 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
33766 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
33767 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
33768 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
33769 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
33770 documentation: "make check-docs".
33771 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
33772 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
33774 o Minor features (DNS):
33775 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
33776 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
33777 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
33778 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
33779 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
33780 our tests for DNS hijacking.
33782 o Minor features (directory):
33783 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
33784 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
33785 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
33786 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
33787 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
33788 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
33789 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
33790 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
33791 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
33792 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
33793 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
33794 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
33795 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
33796 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
33797 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
33798 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
33799 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
33800 for the thing we're trying to download.
33801 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
33802 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
33803 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
33805 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
33806 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
33807 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
33810 o Minor features (controller):
33811 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
33812 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
33814 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
33815 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
33816 entry guard status as it changes.
33818 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
33819 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
33820 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
33821 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
33822 to set log options.
33823 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
33824 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
33825 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
33826 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
33829 o Major bugfixes (security):
33830 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
33831 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
33832 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
33833 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
33835 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
33836 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
33837 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
33838 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
33839 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
33841 o Major bugfixes (other):
33842 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
33843 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
33844 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
33845 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
33847 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
33848 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
33849 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
33850 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
33851 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
33852 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
33856 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
33857 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
33858 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
33859 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
33860 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
33862 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
33863 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
33865 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
33866 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
33867 family lists conveniently.
33868 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
33869 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
33870 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
33872 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
33873 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
33875 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
33876 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
33877 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
33878 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
33879 if their identity keys are as expected.
33880 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
33881 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
33882 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
33884 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33885 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
33886 reported by Mike Perry.
33887 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
33888 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
33889 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
33890 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
33893 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
33894 o Security bugfixes:
33895 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
33896 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
33897 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
33898 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
33902 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
33903 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
33904 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
33907 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
33909 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
33910 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
33911 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
33914 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
33915 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
33916 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
33917 watching for STREAM events.
33918 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
33919 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
33920 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
33921 operations, for profiling.
33924 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
33925 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
33926 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
33927 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
33928 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
33929 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
33931 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
33935 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
33936 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
33937 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
33938 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
33939 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
33941 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
33942 correctly in the Windows installer.
33943 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
33944 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
33945 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
33946 MIPSpro C compiler.
33947 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
33948 when we're running as a client.
33951 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
33953 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
33954 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
33955 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
33956 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
33957 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
33958 its circuits on demand.
33959 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
33960 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
33961 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
33962 connections more stable on average.
33963 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
33964 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
33965 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
33967 o Security bugfixes:
33968 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
33969 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
33972 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
33974 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
33975 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
33976 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
33977 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
33978 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
33979 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
33980 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
33981 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
33984 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
33986 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
33987 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
33988 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
33989 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
33990 routers for even longer.
33991 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
33992 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
33993 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
33994 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
33995 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
33996 caching HTTP proxies.
33997 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
34000 o Minor features, controller:
34001 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
34002 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
34003 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
34004 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
34006 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
34007 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
34008 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
34009 working much like those for circuit events.
34010 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
34011 about the current status of a router.
34012 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
34013 a router's status has changed.
34014 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
34015 can tell which events and features are supported.
34016 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
34017 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
34019 o Security bugfixes:
34020 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
34021 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
34024 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
34025 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
34026 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
34027 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
34028 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
34029 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
34030 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
34031 long nicknames where appropriate.
34032 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
34033 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
34034 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
34035 chews through many circuits before giving up.
34036 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
34037 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
34038 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
34039 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
34040 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
34041 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
34043 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
34044 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
34045 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
34047 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
34048 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
34049 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
34050 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
34051 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
34052 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
34053 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
34054 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
34055 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
34056 (reported by fookoowa).
34057 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
34058 and reported by some Centos users.
34059 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
34060 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
34061 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
34062 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
34063 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
34064 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
34065 before we check for libevent.
34068 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
34070 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
34071 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
34072 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
34073 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
34074 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
34075 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
34076 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
34077 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
34078 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
34079 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
34080 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
34081 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
34082 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
34083 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
34084 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
34085 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
34086 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
34087 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
34088 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
34089 lets you turn it off.
34090 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
34091 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
34092 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
34093 us into the directory more quickly.
34095 o New/improved config options:
34096 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
34097 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
34098 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
34099 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
34100 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
34101 all the machines on the same subnet.
34102 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
34103 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
34104 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
34105 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
34106 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
34107 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
34108 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
34109 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
34110 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
34111 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
34113 o Minor features, controller:
34114 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
34115 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
34116 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
34117 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
34118 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
34119 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
34120 for more information.
34121 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
34122 best guess to the user.
34123 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
34124 descriptor has changed.
34125 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
34127 o Minor features, other:
34128 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
34129 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
34130 useful to the network.
34131 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
34132 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
34133 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
34134 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
34135 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
34136 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
34137 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
34138 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
34139 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
34140 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
34141 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
34142 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
34143 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
34144 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
34145 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
34147 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
34148 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
34149 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
34150 could return an unnamed server instead.
34151 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
34152 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
34153 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
34154 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
34155 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
34156 a more attractive target for compromise.)
34157 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
34158 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
34159 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
34161 o Major bugfixes, other:
34162 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
34163 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
34164 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
34165 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
34166 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
34167 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
34168 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
34169 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
34170 its circuits on demand.
34171 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
34172 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
34173 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
34174 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
34176 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
34177 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
34178 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
34179 we don't recognize.
34180 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
34182 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
34183 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
34184 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
34185 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
34186 "extendcircuit" request.
34187 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
34188 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
34189 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
34191 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
34192 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
34193 instead of "X resolved to X".
34194 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
34195 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
34196 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
34197 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
34198 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
34199 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
34200 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
34201 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
34202 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
34204 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
34205 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
34206 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
34207 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
34208 result more than once.
34209 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
34210 non-versioning dirservers.
34211 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
34212 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
34214 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
34215 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
34216 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
34217 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
34218 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
34219 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
34220 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
34221 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
34222 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
34224 o Packaging, features:
34225 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
34226 now universal binaries.
34227 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
34228 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
34229 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
34231 o Packaging, bugfixes:
34232 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
34233 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
34234 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
34235 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
34237 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
34238 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
34239 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
34242 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
34243 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
34244 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
34248 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
34250 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
34251 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
34252 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
34253 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
34254 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
34255 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
34256 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
34257 it can't resolve its hostname.
34260 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
34261 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
34262 "extendcircuit" request.
34263 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
34264 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
34265 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
34266 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
34268 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
34269 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
34270 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
34272 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
34273 methods: these are known to be buggy.
34274 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
34275 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
34276 we don't recognize.
34279 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
34281 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
34282 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
34283 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
34284 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
34285 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
34286 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
34287 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
34288 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
34289 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
34290 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
34291 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
34292 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
34293 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
34294 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
34295 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
34296 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
34297 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
34298 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
34299 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
34300 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
34301 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
34302 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
34303 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
34304 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
34307 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
34308 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
34309 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
34310 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
34311 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
34312 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
34313 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
34314 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
34315 recommendation system saner.)
34316 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
34318 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
34319 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
34320 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
34321 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
34322 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
34323 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
34324 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
34325 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
34326 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
34327 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
34328 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
34329 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
34330 your ORPort is set.
34331 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
34332 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
34333 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
34334 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
34335 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
34336 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
34337 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
34338 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
34339 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
34340 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
34341 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
34342 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
34344 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
34345 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
34346 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
34347 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
34348 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
34349 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
34352 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
34353 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
34354 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
34355 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
34356 our DirPort now, etc.
34357 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
34358 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
34359 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
34360 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
34361 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
34362 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
34363 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
34365 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
34366 whether the config options are bad or good.
34367 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
34368 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
34369 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
34370 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
34371 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
34372 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
34373 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
34374 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
34377 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
34378 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
34379 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
34380 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
34381 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
34382 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
34383 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
34384 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
34385 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
34386 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
34387 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
34388 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
34389 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
34390 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
34391 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
34392 of it), is not therefore "up".
34393 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
34394 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
34395 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
34396 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
34397 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
34398 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
34401 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
34403 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
34404 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
34405 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
34406 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
34407 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
34408 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
34409 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
34410 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
34411 test reachability, so you won't publish.
34414 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
34415 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
34416 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
34417 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
34418 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
34420 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
34421 own server descriptor yet.
34424 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
34426 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
34427 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
34428 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
34429 make sure to test via one of these.
34430 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
34431 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
34432 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
34433 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
34434 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
34436 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
34437 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
34438 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
34441 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
34442 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
34443 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
34444 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
34445 directory authority.
34446 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
34447 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
34448 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
34449 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
34452 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
34453 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
34454 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
34456 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
34457 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
34458 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
34459 current guards when picking a new guard.
34460 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
34461 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
34462 when we had more than one pending.
34463 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
34464 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
34465 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
34466 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
34467 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
34468 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
34469 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
34470 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
34471 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
34472 debug the reachability problems better.
34474 o Log / documentation fixes:
34475 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
34476 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
34477 about protocol violations by others.
34478 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
34479 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
34480 about what happened to our old torrc.
34483 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
34485 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
34487 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
34488 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
34489 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
34490 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
34493 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
34495 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
34496 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
34497 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
34498 old ORPort and receive connections.
34499 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
34501 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
34502 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
34503 and network-statuses.
34504 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
34505 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
34506 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
34507 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
34509 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
34512 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
34513 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
34514 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
34517 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
34519 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
34520 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
34521 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
34522 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
34523 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
34526 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
34527 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
34529 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
34530 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
34531 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
34532 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
34533 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
34534 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
34535 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
34536 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
34537 rather than not sending anything back at all.
34538 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
34539 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
34540 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
34541 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
34542 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
34543 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
34544 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
34545 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
34546 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
34547 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
34548 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
34549 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
34550 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
34551 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
34552 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
34553 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
34554 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
34555 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
34556 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
34557 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
34558 default ulimit -n is 1024.
34561 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
34562 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
34563 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
34564 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
34567 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
34569 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
34570 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
34571 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
34572 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
34573 entry guards running these flawed versions.
34574 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
34575 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
34576 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
34577 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
34578 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
34581 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
34582 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
34584 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
34585 and it is confusing some users.
34586 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
34587 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
34588 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
34589 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
34590 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
34593 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
34595 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
34596 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
34597 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
34598 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
34599 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
34600 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
34601 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
34602 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
34603 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
34604 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
34605 dirport is set for now.
34607 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
34608 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
34609 unattached before we fail it?
34610 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
34611 at least this many seconds ago.
34612 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
34613 at least this many seconds ago.
34616 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
34617 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
34618 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
34619 or resolve-wait stream.
34620 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
34621 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
34622 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
34623 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
34624 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
34625 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
34626 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
34627 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
34629 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
34630 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
34631 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
34632 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
34633 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
34634 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
34635 given as hex digests.
34636 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
34637 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
34638 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
34639 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
34640 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
34641 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
34642 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
34643 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
34646 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34647 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
34648 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
34649 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
34650 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
34651 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
34652 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
34653 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
34654 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
34655 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
34656 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
34659 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
34660 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
34661 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
34662 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
34663 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
34664 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
34665 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
34668 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
34669 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
34670 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
34671 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
34672 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
34673 misreading their logs.
34674 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
34675 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
34676 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
34677 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
34678 valid router descriptors.
34679 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
34680 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
34681 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
34682 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
34683 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
34684 silently resetting it to its default.
34685 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
34687 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
34690 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
34691 use clean circuits.
34692 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
34693 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
34694 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
34695 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
34696 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
34698 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
34699 because older Tors do not understand it.
34700 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
34704 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
34705 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34706 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
34707 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
34708 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
34709 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
34710 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
34711 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
34712 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
34713 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
34714 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
34716 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
34717 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
34718 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
34719 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
34721 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
34722 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
34725 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
34726 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
34727 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
34728 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
34729 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
34730 without getting overloaded.
34731 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
34733 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
34734 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
34735 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
34736 be forward-compatible.
34737 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
34738 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
34739 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
34740 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
34742 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
34743 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
34744 and OR conns to port 443.
34745 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
34746 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
34748 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
34749 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
34750 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
34751 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
34752 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
34753 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
34754 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
34757 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
34758 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34759 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
34760 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
34762 o Other important bugfixes:
34763 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
34764 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
34765 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
34766 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
34768 o Backported features:
34769 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
34770 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
34771 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
34772 without getting overloaded.
34773 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
34774 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
34775 503's whenever they feel busy.
34776 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
34777 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
34778 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
34779 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
34780 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
34783 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
34784 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
34785 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
34786 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
34787 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
34788 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
34789 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
34790 know if the crashes continue.
34791 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
34792 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
34793 seg faults in at least some cases.)
34794 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
34795 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
34796 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
34799 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
34800 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
34801 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
34802 try to be a bit more fair.
34803 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
34804 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
34805 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
34806 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
34807 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
34808 bug that let it go negative.
34809 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
34810 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
34811 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
34812 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
34813 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
34814 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
34815 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
34816 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
34817 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
34818 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
34819 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
34822 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
34824 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
34825 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
34826 service descriptors.
34829 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
34830 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
34831 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
34832 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
34834 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
34835 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
34836 versions *are* still recommended.
34837 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
34838 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
34839 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
34840 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
34841 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
34842 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
34843 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
34844 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
34846 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
34847 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
34848 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
34849 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
34850 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
34851 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
34852 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
34853 on it. Not used by clients yet.
34854 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
34855 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
34856 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
34857 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
34858 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
34859 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
34860 established a circuit.
34861 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
34862 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
34863 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
34864 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
34867 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
34868 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34869 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
34870 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
34871 quickly enough. Oops.
34872 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
34874 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34875 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
34878 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
34879 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
34880 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
34881 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
34882 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
34883 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
34884 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
34885 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
34886 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
34887 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
34888 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
34889 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
34890 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
34891 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
34892 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
34893 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
34894 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
34897 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
34898 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
34899 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
34900 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
34901 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
34902 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
34903 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
34904 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
34905 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
34906 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
34907 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
34908 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
34909 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
34910 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
34911 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
34912 connections more reliable.
34915 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
34916 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
34917 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
34918 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
34919 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
34920 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
34921 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
34922 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
34923 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
34924 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
34925 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
34926 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
34927 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
34928 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
34932 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
34933 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
34934 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
34935 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
34936 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
34937 need to be uint64_t's.
34938 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
34939 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
34940 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
34942 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
34944 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
34945 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
34946 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
34947 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
34948 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
34949 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
34950 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
34952 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
34953 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
34954 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
34955 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
34956 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
34957 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
34958 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
34959 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
34960 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
34961 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
34962 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
34963 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
34964 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
34967 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
34968 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
34969 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
34970 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
34971 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
34972 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
34973 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
34975 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
34976 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
34977 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
34978 can answer v2 directory requests too.
34979 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
34980 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
34981 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
34982 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
34984 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
34985 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
34986 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
34987 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
34988 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
34989 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
34990 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
34991 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
34992 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
34993 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
34994 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
34995 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
34996 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
34997 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
34998 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
35000 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
35001 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
35004 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
35005 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35006 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35007 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35008 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35009 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
35010 too -- so detect and avoid this.
35011 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
35013 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
35014 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35015 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35016 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
35017 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
35018 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35019 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35020 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
35021 rendezvous circuits.
35022 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
35024 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35025 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
35026 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
35027 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
35028 advertising it because of hibernation.
35029 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
35030 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35031 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35032 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35033 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35034 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35035 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
35036 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
35037 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
35038 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
35039 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
35040 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
35041 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
35042 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
35045 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
35046 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35047 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35048 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35049 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35050 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
35051 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
35052 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35053 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35054 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35055 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35056 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35057 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35058 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35059 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
35060 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
35061 connections once a week.
35062 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35063 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35064 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
35065 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
35066 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
35067 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
35069 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
35070 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
35071 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
35073 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35074 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
35075 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
35076 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
35077 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
35078 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
35079 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
35080 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
35081 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
35082 firewall options forbid.
35083 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
35084 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
35085 can only proxy to certain destinations.
35086 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
35087 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
35088 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
35089 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
35090 aids some statistical attacks.
35091 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
35092 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
35093 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
35094 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
35096 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35097 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
35098 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
35099 server descriptor sometimes.
35100 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
35101 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
35102 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
35103 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
35104 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
35105 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
35106 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
35107 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
35109 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
35110 case the controller wants to change that too.
35111 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
35112 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
35113 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
35114 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
35116 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
35117 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
35118 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
35120 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
35121 descriptors that they know they will reject.
35123 o Features and updates:
35124 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
35125 significantly faster.
35126 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
35127 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
35128 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
35129 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
35130 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
35131 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
35132 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
35133 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
35134 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
35135 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
35136 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
35137 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
35138 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
35139 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
35140 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
35141 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
35142 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
35143 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
35144 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
35145 as authoritative dirserver.
35146 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
35147 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
35148 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
35151 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
35152 o Usability improvements:
35153 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
35154 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
35156 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
35157 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
35158 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
35160 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
35161 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
35162 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
35163 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
35164 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
35165 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
35166 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
35167 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
35168 memory leaks better.
35169 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
35170 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
35171 their operators to pay close attention.
35172 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
35173 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
35175 o Performance improvements:
35176 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
35177 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
35178 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
35179 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
35180 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
35181 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
35182 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
35183 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
35184 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
35185 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
35186 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
35187 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
35188 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
35189 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
35190 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
35191 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
35192 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
35194 o Security improvements:
35195 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
35196 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
35197 fingerprint of server.
35198 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
35199 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
35200 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
35202 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35203 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
35204 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
35205 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
35206 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
35207 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
35208 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
35209 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
35210 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
35211 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
35212 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
35213 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
35214 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
35215 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
35216 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
35217 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
35218 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
35219 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
35220 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
35221 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
35222 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
35224 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
35225 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
35226 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
35228 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
35229 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
35231 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
35232 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
35233 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
35234 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
35235 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
35236 of the controller protocol.
35237 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
35238 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
35239 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
35242 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
35243 o New features (major):
35244 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
35245 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
35246 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
35247 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
35248 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
35249 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
35250 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
35251 we're using a default DirPort.
35252 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
35254 o New features (minor):
35255 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
35256 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
35257 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
35258 mirrors still cache and serve it).
35259 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
35260 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
35261 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
35262 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
35263 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
35264 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
35265 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
35266 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
35267 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
35268 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
35269 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
35270 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
35271 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
35272 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
35273 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
35275 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
35276 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
35277 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
35278 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
35279 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
35280 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
35281 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
35282 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
35284 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
35285 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
35286 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
35287 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
35288 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
35289 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
35290 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
35291 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
35292 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
35293 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
35295 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
35296 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
35297 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
35298 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
35299 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
35301 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35302 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
35303 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
35305 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
35306 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
35308 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
35309 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
35310 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
35311 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
35312 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
35313 don't warn twice about the same name.
35314 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
35315 if we've not heard of the server.
35316 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
35317 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
35320 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
35321 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35322 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
35323 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
35324 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
35325 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
35326 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
35327 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
35328 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
35329 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
35330 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
35331 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
35332 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
35333 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
35334 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
35337 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
35338 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
35339 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
35340 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
35341 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
35343 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
35344 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
35345 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
35346 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
35347 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
35348 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
35352 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
35353 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
35354 nickname) is reachable by you.
35355 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
35358 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35359 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
35360 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
35361 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
35362 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
35363 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
35364 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
35365 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
35366 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
35367 we fail to connect).
35368 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
35369 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
35370 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
35371 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
35373 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
35374 it was self-testing that told us so.
35377 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
35378 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
35379 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
35380 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
35381 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
35382 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
35383 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
35384 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
35385 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
35386 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
35387 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
35388 exit policy using him for any exits.
35389 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
35392 o New controller features/fixes:
35393 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
35394 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
35395 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
35396 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
35397 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
35398 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
35399 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
35400 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
35401 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
35403 o Start on the new directory design:
35404 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
35405 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
35407 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
35408 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
35409 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
35410 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
35412 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
35413 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
35414 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
35415 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
35416 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
35417 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
35418 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
35419 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
35422 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
35423 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
35424 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
35425 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
35426 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
35427 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
35428 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
35429 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
35430 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
35431 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
35433 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
35434 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
35435 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
35436 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
35437 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
35438 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
35439 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
35440 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
35441 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
35443 o Config option changes:
35444 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
35445 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
35446 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
35447 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
35448 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
35449 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
35451 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
35452 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
35453 people have started using them for spam too.
35454 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
35455 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
35456 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
35457 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
35458 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
35459 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
35460 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
35461 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
35462 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
35463 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
35464 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
35465 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
35466 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
35467 services faster on the service end.
35468 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
35469 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
35470 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
35471 it a fair shake next time we try.
35472 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
35473 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
35474 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
35475 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
35476 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
35477 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
35478 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
35479 able to discover them.
35480 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
35481 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
35482 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
35483 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
35484 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
35485 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
35486 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
35487 testing for reachability.
35488 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
35489 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
35491 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
35493 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
35494 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
35497 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
35498 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
35500 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35501 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
35502 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
35503 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
35506 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
35507 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35508 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
35510 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
35511 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
35514 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
35515 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
35518 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
35519 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
35520 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
35521 options, getinfo keys.
35524 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
35525 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35526 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
35527 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
35528 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
35529 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
35530 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
35532 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
35533 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
35537 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
35538 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
35539 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
35541 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
35543 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
35544 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
35545 circuit events and we go offline.
35546 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
35547 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
35548 you don't have enough intro points already.
35550 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
35551 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
35552 many bytes we've used in this time period.
35553 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
35554 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
35555 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
35556 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
35557 enabled by default yet.
35559 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
35560 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
35561 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
35562 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
35563 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
35566 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
35567 o New directory servers:
35568 - tor26 has changed IP address.
35570 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35571 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
35572 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
35573 pthreads libraries.
35574 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
35575 claims its dirport is 0.
35576 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
35577 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
35581 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
35582 o New directory servers:
35583 - tor26 has changed IP address.
35585 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
35586 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
35588 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
35589 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
35590 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
35591 ports that have changed.
35592 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
35594 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
35595 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
35596 Windows-style errno back.
35597 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
35599 want to make it an NT service.
35600 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
35601 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
35602 name, give the full name in our response.
35603 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
35604 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
35605 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
35606 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
35607 pthreads libraries.
35609 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35610 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
35614 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
35615 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
35616 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
35617 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
35618 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
35621 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
35622 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35623 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
35624 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
35625 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
35626 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
35627 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
35628 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
35631 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
35633 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
35634 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
35635 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
35636 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
35637 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
35638 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
35640 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
35641 temporarily unreachable.
35642 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
35646 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
35647 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
35648 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
35649 our protocol works.
35650 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
35654 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
35655 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
35656 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
35657 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
35658 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
35662 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
35663 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
35664 libevent before 1.1a.
35667 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
35669 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
35670 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
35671 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
35672 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
35673 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
35675 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
35676 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
35677 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
35678 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
35679 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
35680 of CPU time plus memory.
35681 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
35682 normal web requests.
35683 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
35684 tor_lookup_hostname().
35685 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
35686 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
35687 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
35688 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
35689 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
35690 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
35692 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
35693 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
35694 HttpProxyAuthenticator
35695 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
35696 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
35697 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
35699 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
35700 the user asks you to.
35701 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
35702 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
35703 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
35704 their descriptors are being rejected.
35705 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
35709 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
35711 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
35712 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
35713 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
35715 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
35717 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
35719 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
35720 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
35721 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
35722 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
35723 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
35724 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
35725 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
35726 keys) from the exit server's process.
35727 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
35728 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
35729 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
35730 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
35731 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
35732 point at your Tor server.
35733 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
35734 you're not sending a socks reply back.
35737 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
35738 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
35739 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
35740 to make it easier to write controllers.
35743 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
35745 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
35746 installing on Tiger.
35747 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
35748 complain during installation.
35749 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
35750 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
35751 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
35752 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
35753 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
35754 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
35756 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
35757 something more reasonable when first installing.
35758 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
35761 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
35763 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
35764 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
35766 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
35767 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
35768 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
35769 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
35770 when using the default exit policy.
35771 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
35772 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
35773 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
35774 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
35775 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
35776 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
35777 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
35778 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
35779 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
35780 we fetched a new directory.
35781 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
35782 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
35785 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
35786 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
35787 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
35788 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
35789 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
35790 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
35791 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
35792 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
35794 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
35795 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
35796 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
35797 save memory on systems that need to fork.
35798 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
35799 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
35800 is valid without actually launching Tor.
35801 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
35802 rather than just rejecting it.
35805 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
35807 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
35808 we didn't like its cert.
35810 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
35811 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
35812 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
35813 on patch from Adam Langley.
35814 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
35815 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
35816 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
35817 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
35819 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
35820 directory every time you regenerate it.
35821 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
35822 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
35825 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
35826 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35827 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
35828 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
35829 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
35832 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
35834 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
35835 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
35836 TLS errors better in other situations too.
35837 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
35838 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
35839 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
35840 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
35841 and don't log when you are.
35842 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
35843 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
35845 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
35846 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
35847 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
35848 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
35849 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
35852 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
35853 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
35854 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
35855 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
35856 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
35857 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
35858 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
35859 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
35860 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
35861 nickname+key are allowed.
35862 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
35863 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
35864 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
35865 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
35866 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
35867 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
35868 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
35869 have quite wrong clocks).
35870 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
35871 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
35872 - Efficiency improvements:
35873 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
35874 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
35875 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
35876 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
35877 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
35878 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
35879 lowercase and be done with it.
35880 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
35881 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
35882 to abandon partially built circuits.
35883 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
35884 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
35886 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
35888 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
35889 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
35890 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
35891 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
35893 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
35894 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
35896 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
35897 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
35898 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
35899 obeying the exit policy internally.
35900 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
35901 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
35903 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
35904 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
35905 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
35906 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
35908 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
35909 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
35910 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
35911 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
35912 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
35914 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
35915 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
35916 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
35917 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
35918 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
35919 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
35920 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
35921 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
35922 descriptors we just dropped.
35923 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
35924 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
35925 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
35926 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
35927 artificially capped at 500kB.
35930 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
35931 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35932 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
35933 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
35934 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
35935 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
35936 busy for more than 100 seconds.
35939 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
35940 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
35941 - Fixes on reachability detection:
35942 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
35943 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
35944 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
35945 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
35946 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
35947 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
35948 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
35949 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
35950 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
35951 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
35952 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
35953 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
35954 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
35955 server not already connected to them.
35956 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
35957 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
35958 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
35960 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
35962 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
35963 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
35964 are in a different state than they actually are.
35965 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
35966 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
35967 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
35969 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
35970 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
35971 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
35973 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
35974 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
35975 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
35976 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
35977 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
35978 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
35979 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
35981 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
35982 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
35983 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
35984 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
35987 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
35988 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
35989 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
35990 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
35991 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
35992 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
35993 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
35994 creating actual system users.
35995 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
35996 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
36000 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
36002 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
36003 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
36004 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
36005 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
36006 hidden services better.
36007 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
36009 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
36010 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
36011 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
36012 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
36013 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
36014 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
36015 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
36016 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
36017 patch by Matt Edman).
36018 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
36019 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
36020 required exit node for certain sites.
36021 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
36022 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
36023 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
36024 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
36025 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
36026 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
36027 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
36028 rather than just "success" or "failure".
36029 - A more sane version numbering system. See
36030 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
36031 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
36032 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
36034 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
36035 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
36036 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
36037 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
36038 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
36039 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
36040 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
36042 o Robustness/stability fixes:
36043 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
36044 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
36045 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
36047 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
36048 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
36049 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
36051 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
36052 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
36053 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
36055 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
36056 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
36057 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
36058 that will want high uptime circuits.
36059 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
36060 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
36061 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
36062 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
36063 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
36064 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
36065 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
36066 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
36067 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
36068 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
36069 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
36070 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
36071 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
36072 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
36073 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
36074 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
36075 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
36076 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
36077 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
36078 when we try to launch one.
36079 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
36080 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
36081 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
36082 "ShutdownWaitLength".
36083 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
36084 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
36085 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
36086 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
36087 and to take errno into account where possible.
36090 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
36091 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
36092 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
36093 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
36094 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
36095 file more reasonable.
36096 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
36097 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
36098 addresses -- it won't.
36099 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
36100 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
36101 for google.com" problem.
36102 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
36103 so it's not just "unknown platform".
36104 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
36105 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
36106 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
36107 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
36109 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
36110 they could use instead.
36111 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
36112 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
36113 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
36114 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
36115 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
36116 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
36117 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
36118 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
36119 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
36121 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
36125 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
36126 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
36128 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
36129 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
36130 private-IP addresses.
36131 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
36132 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
36134 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
36135 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
36136 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
36137 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
36138 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
36139 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
36140 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
36142 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
36143 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
36144 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
36145 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
36146 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
36147 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
36148 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
36149 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
36151 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
36153 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
36154 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
36155 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
36156 whether the server is hibernating.
36159 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
36160 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
36161 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
36162 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
36163 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
36164 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
36165 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
36166 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
36167 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
36168 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
36169 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
36170 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
36171 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
36172 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
36173 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
36175 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
36176 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
36177 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
36178 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
36179 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
36180 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
36181 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
36182 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
36183 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
36184 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
36185 existing torrc files.
36186 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
36189 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
36190 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36191 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
36192 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
36193 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
36194 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
36195 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
36196 the win32 SYSTEM account.
36197 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
36198 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
36199 file descriptors available.
36200 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
36201 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
36202 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
36205 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
36206 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36207 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
36208 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
36210 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
36211 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
36212 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
36213 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
36214 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
36216 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
36217 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
36218 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
36219 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
36220 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
36221 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
36222 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
36223 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
36224 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
36225 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
36226 800kB/s of capacity.
36227 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
36230 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
36231 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36232 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
36233 need as much processor time.
36234 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
36235 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
36236 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
36237 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
36238 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
36239 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
36240 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
36241 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
36242 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
36243 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
36244 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
36245 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
36247 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
36248 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
36249 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
36250 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
36251 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
36252 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
36253 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
36256 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
36257 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
36258 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
36260 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
36261 style address, then we'd crash.
36262 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
36263 a dirserver is broken.
36264 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
36266 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
36267 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
36268 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
36270 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
36271 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
36272 name out of the warning/assert messages.
36273 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
36274 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
36275 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
36277 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
36278 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
36279 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
36281 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
36283 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
36284 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
36285 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
36286 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
36287 values at once couldn't work.
36288 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
36289 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
36290 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
36291 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
36292 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
36293 they can handle any number of routers.
36294 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
36295 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
36296 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
36297 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
36298 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
36299 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
36300 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
36301 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
36302 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
36305 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
36306 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
36307 - Make hibernation actually work.
36308 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
36309 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
36310 don't use the stream status code.
36313 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
36315 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
36316 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
36318 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
36321 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
36322 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
36323 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
36324 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
36325 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
36326 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
36327 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
36328 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
36329 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
36330 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
36332 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36333 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
36334 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
36335 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
36336 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
36337 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
36338 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
36339 - Make unit tests work on win32.
36342 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
36343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
36344 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
36346 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
36347 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
36348 than just chopping them off.
36349 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
36351 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36352 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
36353 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
36354 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
36355 right after sending the begin cell.
36356 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
36357 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
36358 exit nodes too. Oops.
36361 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
36362 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
36363 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
36364 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
36365 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
36366 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
36367 the user knows which one it's talking about.
36368 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
36369 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
36370 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
36373 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
36374 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36375 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
36376 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
36378 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
36380 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
36381 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
36382 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
36384 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
36385 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
36386 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
36387 Clip rather than rejecting.
36388 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
36389 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
36392 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
36393 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
36394 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
36395 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
36397 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
36400 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
36401 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36402 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
36403 win32 socket errors better.
36405 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36406 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
36409 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
36410 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36411 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
36412 so we don't see those messages days later.
36414 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36415 - Make tor-resolve work again.
36416 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
36417 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
36420 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
36421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
36422 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
36423 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
36425 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
36426 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
36427 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
36430 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
36431 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36432 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
36433 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
36434 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
36435 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
36436 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
36437 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
36438 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
36440 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
36441 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
36442 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
36443 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
36445 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
36446 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
36449 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
36450 hibernation properties by
36451 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
36452 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
36453 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
36454 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
36455 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
36456 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
36457 get back to normal.)
36458 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
36460 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
36461 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
36462 to fill the last cell completely.
36463 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
36466 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
36467 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36468 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
36469 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
36470 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
36471 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
36472 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
36473 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
36474 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
36475 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
36476 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
36478 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
36479 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
36480 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
36481 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
36482 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
36483 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
36484 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
36485 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
36487 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
36488 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
36489 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
36490 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
36491 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
36492 have it on start-up.
36495 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
36496 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
36497 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
36498 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
36499 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
36500 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
36501 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
36502 configuration to torrc.
36503 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
36504 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
36505 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
36506 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
36507 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
36509 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
36510 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
36511 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
36512 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
36513 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
36514 log more informatively.
36515 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
36516 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
36517 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
36518 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
36519 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
36520 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
36521 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
36522 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
36523 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
36524 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
36525 from each other, to hinder linkability.
36528 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
36529 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
36530 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
36531 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
36532 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
36533 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
36534 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
36536 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
36537 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
36538 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
36539 they ran out of file descriptors.
36540 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
36541 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
36542 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
36543 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
36544 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
36545 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
36546 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
36548 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
36551 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
36552 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
36553 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
36554 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
36555 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
36556 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
36557 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
36558 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
36559 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
36560 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
36561 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
36562 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
36563 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
36564 with the control port.
36565 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
36566 use in authenticating to the control interface.
36567 - New log format in config:
36568 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
36569 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
36572 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
36573 from their dirserver.
36574 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
36576 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
36577 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
36578 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
36579 them act more like real nodes.
36580 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
36581 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
36583 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
36584 nickname to its identity key.
36585 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
36586 not on the command line.
36587 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
36588 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
36589 1024) file descriptors.
36591 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
36592 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
36594 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
36595 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
36596 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
36599 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
36600 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
36601 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
36602 exit policy, not reject *:*.
36603 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
36604 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
36605 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
36606 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
36607 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
36608 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
36609 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
36612 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
36613 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
36614 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
36615 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
36616 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
36617 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
36618 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
36621 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
36622 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
36623 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
36624 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
36625 the ones we find in directories.)
36626 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
36628 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
36629 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
36631 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
36632 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
36633 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
36635 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
36636 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
36637 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
36638 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
36640 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
36641 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
36642 any more exit policy lines.
36645 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
36646 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
36647 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
36648 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
36649 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
36650 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
36651 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
36652 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
36653 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
36654 will be able to get a directory.
36655 - Http proxy support
36656 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
36657 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
36658 be routed through this host.
36659 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
36660 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
36661 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
36662 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
36665 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
36667 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
36668 clients/servers with an open dirport.
36669 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
36670 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
36671 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
36672 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
36673 intermittent connections.
36674 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
36675 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
36677 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
36678 in reporting stats locally.
36679 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
36680 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
36681 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
36684 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
36686 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
36687 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
36690 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
36692 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
36693 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
36694 if you don't want it open.
36695 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
36696 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
36697 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
36698 intermittent connections.
36699 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
36701 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
36702 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
36703 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
36704 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
36705 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
36706 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
36707 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
36708 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
36709 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
36710 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
36711 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
36712 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
36713 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
36714 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
36715 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
36716 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
36719 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
36720 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
36721 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
36722 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
36723 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
36725 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
36727 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
36728 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
36729 specified in HTTP 1.0.
36730 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
36731 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
36732 than once per minute.
36733 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
36734 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
36737 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
36738 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
36741 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
36742 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
36743 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
36744 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
36747 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
36748 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
36750 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
36751 don't put it into the client dns cache.
36752 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
36753 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
36754 until we get our next directory.
36756 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
36757 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
36758 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
36759 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
36760 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
36761 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
36762 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
36763 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
36764 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
36765 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
36766 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
36768 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
36770 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
36771 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
36773 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
36774 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
36775 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
36777 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
36779 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
36780 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
36781 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
36782 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
36783 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
36784 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
36785 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
36786 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
36789 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
36790 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
36791 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
36792 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
36795 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
36796 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
36797 ask them to resolve the host "".
36800 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
36801 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
36802 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
36803 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
36804 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
36805 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
36806 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
36807 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
36808 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
36809 clients don't use this yet.)
36810 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
36811 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
36812 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
36813 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
36814 for pointing out this bug.)
36815 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
36816 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
36817 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
36818 kazaa, gnutella ports.
36819 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
36821 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
36822 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
36823 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
36824 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
36825 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
36826 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
36827 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
36828 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
36829 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
36830 wolf unpredictably.
36831 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
36832 that's still handshaking.
36833 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
36834 you'll choose it for your path.
36835 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
36836 end relay cell, etc.
36837 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
36838 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
36839 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
36842 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
36843 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
36845 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
36846 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
36847 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
36848 list to decide who's running or verified.
36849 - Bugfixes and features:
36850 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
36851 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
36852 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
36853 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
36854 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
36855 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
36857 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
36858 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
36859 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
36860 know you might want to get it verified.
36861 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
36864 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
36866 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
36867 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
36868 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
36869 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
36871 o Protocol changes:
36872 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
36873 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
36874 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
36875 hadn't heard of before.
36878 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
36879 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
36880 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
36881 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
36882 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
36883 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
36884 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
36885 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
36886 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
36887 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
36888 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
36889 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
36890 - Directory caching.
36891 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
36892 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
36893 directory they've pulled down.
36894 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
36895 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
36896 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
36897 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
36898 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
36899 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
36900 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
36902 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
36903 This isn't used yet.
36904 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
36905 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
36906 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
36907 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
36908 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
36909 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
36910 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
36911 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
36912 - File and name management:
36913 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
36914 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
36916 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
36917 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
36918 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
36919 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
36920 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
36921 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
36922 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
36924 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
36925 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
36926 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
36927 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
36928 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
36930 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
36931 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
36932 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
36933 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
36934 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
36935 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
36936 - New docs in the tarball:
36938 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
36941 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
36942 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
36943 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
36946 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
36947 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
36948 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
36951 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
36952 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
36955 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
36956 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
36957 - Make it build on Win32 again.
36958 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
36959 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
36963 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
36965 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
36966 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
36967 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
36968 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
36969 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
36970 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
36971 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
36972 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
36973 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
36974 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
36977 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
36980 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
36981 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
36982 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
36983 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
36985 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
36986 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
36987 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
36989 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
36990 hidden service per 15-minute period.
36991 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
36992 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
36993 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
36994 o Fixes for security bugs:
36995 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
36996 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
36997 a trusted dirserver.
36999 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
37000 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
37001 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
37002 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
37003 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
37004 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
37005 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
37006 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
37007 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
37008 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
37010 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
37011 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
37012 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
37013 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
37015 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
37016 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
37017 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
37018 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
37019 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
37020 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
37021 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
37022 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
37023 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
37024 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
37025 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
37026 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
37027 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
37030 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
37031 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
37032 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
37033 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37036 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
37037 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
37038 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
37039 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
37040 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
37041 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37042 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
37046 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
37047 [version bump only]
37050 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
37051 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
37052 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
37053 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
37054 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
37056 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
37059 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
37060 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
37061 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
37062 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
37063 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
37064 o Better debugging for tls errors
37065 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
37066 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
37067 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
37068 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
37069 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
37070 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
37071 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
37072 o win32's close can't close a socket.
37075 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
37076 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
37077 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
37078 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
37079 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
37080 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
37081 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
37082 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
37083 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
37084 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
37085 just close the circ.
37086 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
37087 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
37088 (this was quite rare).
37091 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
37092 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
37093 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
37094 if you decrypted them correctly.
37095 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
37096 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
37097 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
37100 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
37101 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
37102 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
37103 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
37104 a second one and it works.
37105 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
37106 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
37107 alice would just have to wait to time out.
37108 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
37109 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
37110 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
37111 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
37112 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
37113 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
37114 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
37115 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
37116 i'd still like to find the bug though.
37117 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
37119 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
37123 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
37124 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
37125 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
37126 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
37127 he retries a couple of times
37128 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
37129 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
37130 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
37131 too long (they were sticking around forever).
37132 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
37136 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
37137 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
37138 - make hup work again
37139 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
37140 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
37141 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
37142 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
37143 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
37144 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
37146 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
37147 o changes from 0.0.5:
37148 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
37149 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
37150 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
37151 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
37152 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
37154 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
37155 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
37156 in-memory directories too
37159 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
37160 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
37163 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
37165 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
37166 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
37167 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
37168 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
37171 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
37172 [version bump only]
37175 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
37176 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
37178 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
37179 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
37180 but that aren't warnings
37183 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
37184 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
37185 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
37186 the dns farm to do it.
37187 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
37188 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
37190 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
37191 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
37192 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
37195 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
37196 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
37197 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
37198 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
37199 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
37200 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
37201 expect it to have a nickname.
37202 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
37203 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
37206 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
37207 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
37211 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
37212 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
37213 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
37214 - include missing header fcntl.h
37215 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
37216 - deal with hardware word alignment
37217 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
37218 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
37219 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
37220 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
37221 by kill -USR1 currently.
37222 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
37223 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
37224 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
37227 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
37228 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
37229 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
37232 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
37234 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
37235 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
37236 - And fix a few endian issues.
37239 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
37241 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
37242 try that circuit again: try a new one.
37243 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
37244 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
37245 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
37246 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
37247 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
37248 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
37250 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
37251 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
37252 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
37254 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
37256 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
37257 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
37258 side isn't reading right then.
37259 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
37260 RecommendedVersions
37261 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
37262 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
37263 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
37266 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
37268 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
37269 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
37272 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
37276 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
37278 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
37279 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
37280 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
37281 connection is finished.
37282 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
37283 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
37284 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
37285 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
37286 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
37287 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
37288 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
37289 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
37290 rather than warn and continue.
37291 - Make --version work
37292 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
37295 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
37297 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
37298 knows it's working.
37299 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
37300 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
37302 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
37303 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
37304 so you can collect coredumps there.
37306 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
37307 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
37308 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
37309 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
37310 dns cache actually gets populated.
37311 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
37312 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
37313 end cell down it first.
37314 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
37315 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
37318 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
37320 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
37321 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
37323 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
37324 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
37325 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
37326 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
37327 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
37328 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
37330 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
37332 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
37333 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
37334 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
37335 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
37336 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
37337 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
37339 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
37340 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
37343 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
37345 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
37346 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
37347 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
37348 tor. It even has a man page.
37349 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
37350 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
37351 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
37352 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
37354 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
37356 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
37359 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
37361 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
37362 it, apt-getters. :)
37363 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
37364 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
37365 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
37366 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
37367 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
37368 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
37369 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
37370 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
37371 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
37372 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
37373 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
37375 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
37376 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
37379 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
37381 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
37382 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
37385 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
37387 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
37388 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
37389 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
37390 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
37391 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
37392 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
37393 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
37394 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
37395 logfile so you know it's working.
37396 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
37397 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
37400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
37402 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
37403 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
37404 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
37407 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
37409 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
37410 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
37411 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
37414 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
37415 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
37416 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
37418 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
37419 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
37421 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
37422 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
37423 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
37425 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
37426 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
37430 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
37432 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
37433 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
37434 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
37437 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
37438 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
37439 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
37440 - Add port ranges to exit policies
37441 - Add a conservative default exit policy
37442 - Warn if you're running tor as root
37443 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
37444 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
37445 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
37446 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
37448 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
37451 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
37452 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37453 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
37454 really screw things up.
37455 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
37457 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
37458 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
37460 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
37461 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
37462 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
37463 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
37464 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
37465 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
37468 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
37471 - Change default loglevel to warn.
37472 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
37473 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
37475 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
37478 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
37479 o Robustness and bugfixes:
37480 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
37481 - to get ownership/permissions right
37482 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
37483 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
37484 pull down a directory again
37485 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
37486 causing server crashes
37487 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
37488 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
37489 - exit if bind() fails
37490 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
37491 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
37492 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
37493 - fix minor bias in PRNG
37494 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
37497 - Wrote the design document (woo)
37499 o Circuit building and exit policies:
37500 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
37502 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
37503 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
37504 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
37505 exists, rather than failing
37506 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
37507 which AP connections are standing by
37508 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
37509 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
37510 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
37512 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
37513 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
37516 - APPort is now called SocksPort
37517 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
37519 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
37520 hardcoded (for dirservers)
37521 - Reloads config on HUP
37522 - Usage info on -h or --help
37523 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
37526 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
37527 o General stability:
37528 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
37529 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
37530 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
37531 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
37532 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
37533 to take down the network when I approve a new router
37534 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
37537 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
37538 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
37540 o Autoconf improvements:
37541 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
37542 - Make install now works
37543 - create var/lib/tor on make install
37544 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
37545 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
37547 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
37548 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
37549 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
37550 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup