1 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-?? - 2008-02-??
3 - Start choosing which bridge to use proportional to its advertised
4 bandwidth, rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor
5 for bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
8 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
9 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
11 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
12 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
13 24 hours, since we false believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
14 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16 o Minor features (performance):
17 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
19 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
20 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
21 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
22 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
23 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
24 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
25 non-system include paths.
27 o Minor features (controller):
28 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
29 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
30 saved to disk by SAVECONF. Partial fix for bug 586.
33 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
34 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
35 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
36 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
37 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
38 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
39 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
40 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
42 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
43 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
44 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
48 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
49 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
50 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
51 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
52 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
55 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
56 Tor's x509 certificates.
59 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
60 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
61 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
62 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
63 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
64 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
66 o Minor features (security):
67 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
68 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
70 o Minor features (directory authority):
71 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
72 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
73 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
74 bandwidthburst values.
76 o Minor features (controller):
77 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
78 processes from running us out of memory.
80 o Minor features (misc):
81 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
82 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
83 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
84 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
86 o Deprecated features (controller):
87 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
88 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
89 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
92 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
93 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
95 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
96 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
97 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
98 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
99 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
100 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
101 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
102 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
104 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
105 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
106 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
107 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
108 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
109 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
110 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
111 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
113 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
114 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
115 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
116 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
117 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
118 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
119 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
120 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
121 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
122 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
123 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
124 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
126 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
127 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
129 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
130 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
131 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
132 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
133 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
134 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
137 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
138 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
139 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
140 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
141 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
143 o New directory authorities:
144 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
148 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
149 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
150 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
151 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
152 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
153 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
154 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
155 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
159 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
160 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
161 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
162 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
163 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
164 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
165 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
166 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
167 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
168 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
171 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
172 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
173 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
174 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
178 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
179 the request isn't encrypted.
180 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
181 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
182 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
183 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
184 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
187 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
188 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
191 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
194 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
195 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
196 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
198 o New directory authorities:
199 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
202 o Major performance improvements:
203 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
204 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
205 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
206 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
207 memory fragmentation.
210 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
211 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
212 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
213 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
214 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
215 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
216 bodies when they receive them.
217 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
218 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
219 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
221 o Minor performance improvements:
222 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
223 of them were actually distinct.
224 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
225 interested in a given message.
228 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
229 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
230 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
231 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
232 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
233 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
234 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
235 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
236 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
237 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
238 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
240 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
241 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
242 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
243 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
244 this country" and "1 person from this country".
245 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
246 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
247 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
248 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
249 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
251 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
252 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
253 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
255 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
256 but client versions are not.
257 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
258 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
260 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
261 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
262 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
263 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
264 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
266 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
267 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
268 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
271 o Minor features (controller):
272 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
273 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
274 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
275 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
277 o Minor features (directory authorities):
278 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
279 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
280 running a test network on a single host.
281 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
282 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
284 o Minor features (bridges):
285 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
286 unencrypted connections.
288 o Minor features (other):
289 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
290 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
291 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
292 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
295 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
296 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
297 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
298 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
301 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
302 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
303 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
304 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
308 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
309 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
310 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
311 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
312 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
313 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
314 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
315 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
316 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
317 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
318 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
319 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
322 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
323 rebuild our server descriptor.
324 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
325 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
326 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
327 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
328 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
329 nonstandard integer types.
330 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
331 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
332 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
333 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
334 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
336 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
337 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
338 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
339 when they receive them.
340 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
341 This includes some 64-bit systems.
342 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
343 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
344 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
345 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
346 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
347 router_get_by_hexdigest().
348 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
349 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
353 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
354 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
355 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
358 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
359 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
360 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
361 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
362 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
363 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
364 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
365 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
368 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
369 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
370 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
371 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
373 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
374 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
377 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
378 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
381 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
383 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
384 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
386 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
387 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
388 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
389 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
390 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
391 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
392 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
393 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
394 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
395 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
399 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
400 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
401 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
404 - Make the unit tests build again.
405 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
406 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
407 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
408 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
409 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
410 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
411 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
412 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
413 the next one as a duplicate.
416 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
417 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
418 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
419 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
422 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
423 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
424 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
427 o New directory authorities:
428 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
432 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
433 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
434 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
435 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
436 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
437 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
438 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
440 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
441 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
443 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
444 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
445 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
446 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
447 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
448 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
450 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
451 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
452 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
453 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
454 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
455 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
458 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
459 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
460 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
461 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
462 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
463 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
464 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
465 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
466 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
467 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
468 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
469 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
470 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
471 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
472 where Tor is blocked.
473 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
474 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
475 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
476 to a file periodically.
477 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
478 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
479 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
483 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
484 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
485 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
486 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
487 in the relevant networkstatus document.
488 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
489 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
490 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
491 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
492 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
493 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
494 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
496 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
497 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
498 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
499 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
500 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
501 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
502 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
503 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
504 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
505 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
506 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
507 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
508 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
509 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
510 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
511 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
512 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
513 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
514 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
515 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
516 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
517 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
518 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
519 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
520 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
521 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
522 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
523 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
526 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
527 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
528 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
529 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
530 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
531 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
532 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
533 even if your DirPort isn't on.
534 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
535 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
536 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
538 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
539 multiple controller passwords.
540 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
541 router based on the router's purpose.
542 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
543 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
544 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
545 the approved-routers file.
548 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
549 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
550 well as a few minor bugs.
553 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
554 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
555 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
557 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
558 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
559 rebuild our server descriptor.
561 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
562 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
563 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
564 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
565 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
566 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
567 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
568 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
569 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
570 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
572 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
573 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
574 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
575 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
576 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
577 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
578 then be flexible about families.
581 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
582 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
583 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
587 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
588 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
589 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
590 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
591 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
594 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
595 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
596 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
597 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
598 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
601 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
602 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
604 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
605 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
606 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
607 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
608 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
609 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
610 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
612 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
613 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
614 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
615 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
618 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
619 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
622 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
623 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
624 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
627 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
628 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
629 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
630 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
631 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
632 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
633 addresses many more minor issues.
635 o New directory authorities:
636 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
639 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
640 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
641 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
642 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
644 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
645 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
646 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
647 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
649 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
650 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
651 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
652 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
653 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
654 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
657 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
658 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
660 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
661 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
662 no longer work for clients.
663 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
664 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
666 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
667 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
668 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
669 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
670 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
671 enough directory information to build a circuit.
672 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
673 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
674 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
675 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
676 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
677 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
679 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
680 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
681 requests for all of them.
682 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
684 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
685 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
686 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
689 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
690 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
694 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
695 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
696 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
697 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
698 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
699 networkstatuses that we already have.
700 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
701 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
702 we start knowing some directory caches.
703 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
704 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
705 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
706 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
707 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
708 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
709 Good in combination with --hash-password.
710 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
711 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
713 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
714 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
715 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
717 o Minor features (bridges):
718 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
719 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
720 back to trying the bridge directly.
721 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
722 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
724 o Minor features (controller):
725 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
726 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
727 report the value as a "minimum skew."
730 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
731 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
735 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
736 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
737 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
738 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
739 reported by tup and ioerror.
740 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
741 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
743 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
744 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
746 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
747 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes Bug 536.
748 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
750 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
751 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
752 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
753 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
754 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
755 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
756 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
758 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
759 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
760 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
762 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
763 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
764 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
765 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
766 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
769 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
770 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
771 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
772 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
773 lists for a few hours each day.
775 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
776 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
777 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
778 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
779 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
780 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
781 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
782 rend_process_relay_cell().
784 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
785 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
786 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
787 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
788 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
789 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
790 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
791 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
793 o Major bugfixes (other):
794 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
795 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
796 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
797 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
798 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
799 circuit cannibalization).
800 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
801 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
802 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
803 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
804 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
805 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
808 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
809 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
811 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
812 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
813 absent. Resolves bug 467.
814 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
815 a way to trigger this remotely.)
816 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
817 OR address is readable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
818 were reporting the dir port.)
819 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
820 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
821 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
822 the future. Fixes bug 434.
823 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
825 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
826 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
827 the onion key from getting rotated.
828 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
829 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
830 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
831 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
832 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
833 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
834 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
835 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
836 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
839 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
840 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
841 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
842 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
843 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
844 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
846 o Major features (directory system):
847 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
848 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
849 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
850 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
851 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
852 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
853 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
854 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
855 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
856 - If the consensus list a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
857 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
858 Partially implements proposal 122.
859 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
860 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
863 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
864 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
865 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
866 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
868 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
869 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
870 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
871 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
872 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
873 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
874 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
875 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
876 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
878 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
879 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
881 - Allow certificates to include an address.
882 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
883 and download operations.
884 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
885 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
886 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
887 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
888 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
889 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
891 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
892 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
895 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
896 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
897 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
898 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
900 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
901 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
902 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
904 o Minor features (performance):
905 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
906 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
907 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
908 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
909 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
910 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
911 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
914 o Minor features (compilation):
915 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
916 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
918 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
919 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
920 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
921 stick around indefinitely.
922 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
924 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
925 v3 directory authority.
926 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
927 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
929 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
930 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
931 "moria on moria:9031."
932 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
933 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
934 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
935 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
936 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
937 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
938 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
939 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
941 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
942 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
943 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
944 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
945 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
946 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
947 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
948 downloads than for other types.
950 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
951 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
953 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
954 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
955 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
957 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
958 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
959 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
960 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
961 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
962 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
963 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
964 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
966 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
967 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
968 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
969 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
970 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
971 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
972 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
973 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
974 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
975 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
976 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
978 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
979 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
982 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
983 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
984 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
985 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
986 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
987 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
988 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
989 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
990 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
991 so that they all take the same named flags.
994 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
995 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
996 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
999 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
1000 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
1001 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
1002 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
1003 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
1004 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
1006 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
1007 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
1008 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
1009 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
1010 annotations along with descriptors.
1011 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
1012 source, and its purpose.
1013 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
1015 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
1016 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
1017 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
1018 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
1021 o Major features (directory authorities):
1022 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
1024 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
1025 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
1026 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
1027 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
1028 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
1029 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
1031 o Major features (v3 directory system):
1032 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
1033 and download the descriptors listed in them.
1034 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
1035 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
1036 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
1038 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1039 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1040 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1041 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
1044 o Major bugfixes (performance):
1045 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
1046 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
1047 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
1048 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
1050 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
1051 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
1052 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
1053 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
1054 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
1055 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1057 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
1058 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
1060 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
1061 certificate is requested.
1062 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
1063 certificate requests.
1065 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
1066 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
1067 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
1068 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
1071 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1072 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1073 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1074 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1076 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
1077 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
1079 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
1080 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
1081 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1082 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
1083 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
1084 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
1085 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
1086 downloads more sensible.
1087 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
1088 another when serving certificates.
1090 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1091 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
1092 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
1093 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
1095 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
1096 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1097 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
1099 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1100 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1102 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1103 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1104 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1105 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
1106 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1108 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1109 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
1110 WARN-severity events.
1111 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1112 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
1113 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1115 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
1116 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
1117 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
1119 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1120 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1121 circuit cannibalization).
1123 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1124 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
1125 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
1126 new module, networkstatus.c.
1127 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
1128 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
1129 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
1130 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
1131 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
1132 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
1133 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
1134 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
1135 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
1137 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
1139 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
1140 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1143 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
1144 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
1145 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
1146 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
1148 o New directory authorities:
1149 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
1150 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
1152 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1153 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1154 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1156 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1157 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
1158 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
1159 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
1160 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1161 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
1162 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
1163 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
1164 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
1165 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
1166 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1168 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1169 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1170 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1171 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1172 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1173 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1174 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
1175 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
1176 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
1178 o Minor features (security):
1179 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
1180 address maps to an internal address space.
1181 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
1182 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
1184 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1185 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
1186 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
1187 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
1188 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
1190 o Minor features (speed):
1191 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
1192 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
1193 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
1194 on big-endian hosts.)
1196 o Minor features (controller):
1197 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
1198 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
1199 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
1200 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
1204 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
1205 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
1206 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
1207 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
1208 implementation of proposal 104.
1209 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
1210 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
1211 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
1212 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
1213 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
1214 patch from Karsten Loesing.
1215 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
1216 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
1219 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1220 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
1221 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1222 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
1223 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1224 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
1225 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1226 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1227 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
1228 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1229 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
1230 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
1231 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
1232 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1233 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
1234 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
1235 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
1236 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1237 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
1238 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
1240 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1241 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
1242 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
1244 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
1245 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
1246 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
1247 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
1250 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
1251 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
1252 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
1253 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1254 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
1257 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
1258 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
1261 o Major bugfixes (security):
1262 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
1263 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
1264 become more of a headache than it's worth.
1266 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1267 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1268 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1270 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1271 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1272 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1273 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1274 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1275 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1277 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1278 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1279 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1280 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
1281 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
1283 o Minor features (controller):
1284 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
1285 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
1286 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
1287 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
1289 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1290 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
1291 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
1292 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
1293 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
1294 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
1295 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
1296 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
1298 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1299 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
1300 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
1301 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
1302 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
1303 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
1304 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
1305 if we ran off the end of the list.
1306 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
1307 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
1308 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
1309 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
1310 every time we change any piece of our config.
1311 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
1312 encourage people using them to stop.
1313 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
1315 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
1316 servers to choose a circuit.
1317 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
1318 unparseable piece of it.
1321 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
1322 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
1323 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
1324 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1327 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
1328 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
1329 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
1330 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
1331 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
1333 o New directory authorities:
1334 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
1337 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
1338 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
1339 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
1340 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
1342 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1343 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1344 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1346 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1347 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1348 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1349 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1350 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1351 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1353 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
1354 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
1355 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1358 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
1359 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
1360 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
1361 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
1365 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
1366 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
1367 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
1368 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
1370 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
1371 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
1373 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
1374 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
1375 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
1376 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
1377 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
1378 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
1379 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1380 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
1381 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1382 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
1385 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
1386 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
1387 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
1388 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
1389 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
1390 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
1393 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
1394 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
1395 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
1396 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
1399 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
1400 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
1401 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
1402 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
1403 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
1406 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1407 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1408 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1409 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
1410 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
1413 o Minor features (directory servers):
1414 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
1415 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
1417 o Minor features (directory voting):
1418 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
1421 o Minor features (security):
1422 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
1423 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
1424 encourage people using them to stop.
1426 o Minor features (controller):
1427 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
1428 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
1429 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
1430 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
1431 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
1432 cookie authentication file, and config option
1433 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
1435 o Minor features (unit testing):
1436 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
1437 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
1438 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
1439 logging for the unit tests.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1442 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
1443 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
1444 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
1445 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
1446 every time we change any piece of our config.
1447 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
1448 the future. Fixes bug 434.
1449 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
1451 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
1452 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
1453 the onion key from getting rotated.
1454 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
1455 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
1456 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
1459 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1460 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
1461 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
1463 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
1464 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
1465 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
1466 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
1469 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
1470 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
1471 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
1472 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
1473 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
1474 TorK, etc. Or worse.
1476 o Major security fixes:
1477 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
1478 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
1481 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
1482 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
1483 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
1484 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
1486 o Major security fixes:
1487 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
1488 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
1490 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
1491 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
1494 o Minor features (performance):
1495 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
1496 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
1497 performance-intensive.
1498 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
1499 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
1500 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
1501 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
1502 siightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
1503 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
1507 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
1508 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
1509 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
1510 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
1514 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
1515 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
1516 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
1517 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
1518 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
1520 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
1521 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
1522 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
1523 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
1525 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
1526 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
1527 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
1528 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
1529 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
1531 o Major features (experimental):
1532 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
1533 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
1534 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
1535 handling before it's ready for use.
1538 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
1539 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
1540 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
1541 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
1542 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
1543 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
1545 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
1546 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
1547 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
1548 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
1549 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
1551 o Major bugfixes (directory):
1552 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
1553 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
1555 o Minor features (controller):
1556 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
1557 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
1558 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
1560 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
1562 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
1563 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
1565 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
1566 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
1567 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
1568 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
1569 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
1570 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
1571 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
1574 o Minor features (misc):
1575 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
1577 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
1578 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
1579 the authority identity key.
1580 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
1582 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
1583 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
1584 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
1587 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
1588 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
1589 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
1590 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
1591 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
1592 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
1593 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
1594 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
1596 o Performance improvements:
1597 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
1599 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
1600 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
1603 o Deprecated and removed features:
1604 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
1605 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
1606 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
1607 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
1609 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
1610 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
1611 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
1612 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
1613 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
1614 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
1615 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
1616 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
1617 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
1620 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
1621 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
1622 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
1623 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
1624 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
1626 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
1627 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
1630 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1631 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
1632 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
1633 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
1634 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
1635 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
1636 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
1637 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
1638 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
1641 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
1642 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
1643 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
1644 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
1646 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
1647 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
1649 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1650 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
1651 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
1652 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
1653 routerlist while inserting a new router.
1654 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
1655 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
1657 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
1658 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
1659 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
1661 o Major bugfixes (security):
1662 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
1664 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
1665 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
1666 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
1667 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
1668 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
1669 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
1670 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
1671 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
1672 guard list unless we need to.
1674 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
1675 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
1676 don't get overused as guards.
1678 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
1679 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
1680 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
1681 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
1682 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
1684 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1685 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
1686 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
1689 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1690 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
1691 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
1692 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
1693 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
1694 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
1695 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
1696 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
1699 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
1700 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
1701 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
1702 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
1704 o Minor features (directory):
1705 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
1706 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
1707 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
1708 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
1710 o Minor build issues:
1711 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
1712 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
1713 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
1714 in the tarball, not as "x".
1717 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
1718 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
1719 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
1720 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
1721 forward on a lot of fronts.
1723 o Major features, server usability:
1724 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
1725 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
1726 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
1727 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
1729 o Major features, client usability:
1730 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
1731 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
1732 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
1733 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
1734 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
1735 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
1736 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
1737 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
1739 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
1740 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
1741 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
1742 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
1743 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
1744 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
1746 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
1747 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
1748 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
1750 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
1751 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
1752 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
1753 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
1754 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
1756 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
1757 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
1758 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
1759 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
1761 o Major features, other:
1762 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
1763 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
1764 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
1765 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
1766 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
1769 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
1770 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
1771 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
1774 o Minor fixes (resource management):
1775 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
1776 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
1777 our allocated connection limit.
1778 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
1779 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
1780 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
1781 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
1782 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
1784 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
1785 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
1786 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
1788 o Minor features (build):
1789 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
1790 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
1791 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
1792 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
1794 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
1795 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
1796 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
1797 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
1798 Use this version consistently in log messages.
1800 o Minor features (logging):
1801 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
1802 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
1803 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
1804 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
1805 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
1808 o Minor features (directory system):
1809 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
1810 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
1811 not to serve V2 directory information.
1812 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
1813 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
1814 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
1816 o Minor features (controller):
1817 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
1818 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
1820 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
1821 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
1822 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
1823 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
1824 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
1825 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
1827 o Minor features (hidden services):
1828 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
1829 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
1830 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
1831 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
1833 o Minor features (other):
1835 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
1836 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
1837 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
1838 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
1839 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
1840 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
1841 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
1842 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
1843 longer a completely silly thing to do.
1844 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
1845 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
1846 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
1847 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
1850 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
1851 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
1852 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
1853 back an error and close the connection.
1854 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
1855 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
1858 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1859 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
1860 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
1861 makes the log messages nicer.
1862 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
1863 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
1864 partial results on small file reads.
1866 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
1867 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
1868 more often than they are allowed to appear.
1869 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
1870 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
1872 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1873 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
1874 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
1875 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
1877 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1878 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
1879 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
1880 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
1881 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
1882 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
1883 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
1884 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
1885 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
1886 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
1887 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
1889 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
1890 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
1891 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
1893 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
1894 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
1895 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
1896 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
1898 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1899 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
1900 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
1902 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
1903 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
1906 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1907 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
1908 implicit in other procedure arguments.
1909 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
1910 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
1911 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
1912 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
1913 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
1914 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
1915 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
1916 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
1917 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
1920 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
1921 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
1922 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
1923 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
1925 o Directory authority changes:
1926 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
1927 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
1928 or use hidden services.
1930 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1931 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
1932 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
1933 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
1934 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
1935 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
1936 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
1937 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
1938 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
1941 o Major bugfixes (security):
1942 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
1943 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
1944 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
1946 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
1947 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
1948 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
1949 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
1950 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
1951 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
1952 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
1953 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
1954 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
1955 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
1958 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
1960 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
1961 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
1963 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
1964 having a hard time downloading.
1965 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
1966 partial results on small file reads.
1967 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
1968 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
1969 the gaps in the store get very large.
1972 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
1973 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
1975 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
1976 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
1979 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
1980 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
1981 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
1982 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
1983 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
1984 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
1986 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
1987 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
1988 free speech on the Internet.
1991 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
1992 get one we don't recognize.
1993 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
1994 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
1997 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
1999 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
2000 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
2001 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
2002 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
2005 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
2006 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
2009 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
2010 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
2011 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
2012 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
2013 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
2014 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
2018 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
2019 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2020 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
2021 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
2022 on Win98 and friends again.
2024 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2025 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
2026 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
2029 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
2030 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2031 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
2032 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
2033 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
2034 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
2035 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
2036 and maybe also bug 397.)
2038 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2039 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
2040 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
2042 o Minor bugfixes (server):
2043 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
2046 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2047 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
2048 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
2049 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
2050 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
2052 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2053 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
2054 load on authorities.
2056 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2057 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
2058 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
2059 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
2061 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
2063 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
2064 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
2065 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
2066 the last of bug 326.)
2067 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
2068 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
2072 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
2073 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2074 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
2075 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
2076 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
2077 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
2078 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
2080 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
2081 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
2083 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2084 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
2085 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
2087 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
2088 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
2089 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
2091 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2092 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
2093 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
2094 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
2096 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
2097 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
2099 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
2100 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
2101 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
2104 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2105 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
2106 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
2107 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
2108 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
2109 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
2110 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
2111 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
2112 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
2113 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
2114 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
2115 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
2116 other than file-not-found.
2117 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
2118 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
2119 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
2120 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
2121 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
2122 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
2123 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
2124 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
2125 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
2126 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
2127 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
2128 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
2129 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
2130 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
2131 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
2133 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
2135 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
2136 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
2138 o Minor features (controller):
2139 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
2140 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
2141 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
2143 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
2144 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2145 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
2146 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
2147 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
2148 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
2149 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
2150 connected or resolved cell.
2152 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2153 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
2154 some profiles, but not others.)
2155 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
2156 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
2157 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
2160 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
2162 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
2163 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
2164 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
2165 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
2166 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
2167 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
2168 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
2169 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
2170 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
2171 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
2172 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
2173 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
2174 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
2175 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
2176 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
2178 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
2181 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
2182 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
2183 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
2184 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
2185 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
2186 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
2187 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
2189 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
2190 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
2191 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
2192 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
2193 buckets go absurdly negative.
2194 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
2195 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
2198 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
2199 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
2200 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
2201 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
2202 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
2203 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
2204 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
2205 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
2208 o Major bugfixes (other):
2209 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
2210 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
2211 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
2212 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
2214 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
2216 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
2217 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
2219 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
2220 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
2221 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
2222 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
2223 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
2226 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2227 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
2228 possible memory-stomping bugs.
2229 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
2230 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
2232 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
2233 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
2234 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
2235 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
2236 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
2237 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
2239 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2240 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
2241 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
2242 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
2244 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
2245 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
2246 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
2247 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
2248 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
2249 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
2250 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
2251 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
2252 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
2253 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
2254 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
2255 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
2256 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
2258 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
2259 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
2260 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
2261 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
2262 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
2263 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
2264 to the resulting address.
2267 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
2268 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
2269 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
2270 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
2273 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
2274 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
2276 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
2277 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
2278 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
2279 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
2280 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
2281 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
2282 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
2283 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
2284 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
2285 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
2286 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
2287 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
2288 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
2289 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
2290 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
2291 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
2292 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
2295 o Minor features (controller):
2296 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
2297 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
2298 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
2299 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
2300 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
2301 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
2302 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
2306 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
2308 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
2309 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
2310 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
2311 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
2312 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
2313 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
2316 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
2317 weren't planning to resolve.
2318 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
2319 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
2320 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
2321 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
2322 the controller from learning about current events.
2324 o Minor features (more controller status events):
2325 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
2326 learn when our address changes.
2327 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
2328 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
2329 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
2330 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
2332 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
2333 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
2334 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
2335 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
2336 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
2337 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
2338 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
2339 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
2340 are accepted by a directory.
2341 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
2342 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
2343 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
2344 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
2345 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
2347 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
2348 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
2349 about changes to DNS server status.
2351 o Minor features (directory):
2352 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
2353 too much load to the exit nodes.
2356 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
2358 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
2359 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
2360 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
2361 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
2362 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
2364 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
2365 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
2366 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
2368 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
2369 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
2370 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
2371 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
2372 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
2373 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
2374 config options if you like.
2376 o Minor features (config and docs):
2377 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
2378 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
2379 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
2380 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
2381 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
2383 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
2384 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
2385 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
2386 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
2387 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
2389 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
2390 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
2391 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
2392 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
2393 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
2394 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
2395 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
2396 documentation: "make check-docs".
2397 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
2398 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
2400 o Minor features (DNS):
2401 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
2402 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
2403 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
2404 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
2405 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
2406 our tests for DNS hijacking.
2408 o Minor features (directory):
2409 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
2410 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
2411 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
2412 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
2413 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
2414 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
2415 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
2416 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
2417 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
2418 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
2419 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
2420 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
2421 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
2422 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
2423 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
2424 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
2425 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
2426 for the thing we're trying to download.
2427 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
2428 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
2429 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
2431 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
2432 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
2433 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
2436 o Minor features (controller):
2437 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
2438 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
2440 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
2441 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
2442 entry guard status as it changes.
2444 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
2445 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
2446 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
2447 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
2449 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
2450 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
2451 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
2452 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
2455 o Major bugfixes (security):
2456 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
2457 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
2458 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
2459 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
2461 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
2462 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
2463 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
2464 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
2465 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
2467 o Major bugfixes (other):
2468 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
2469 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
2470 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
2471 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
2473 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
2474 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
2475 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
2476 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
2477 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
2478 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
2482 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
2483 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
2484 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
2485 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
2486 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
2488 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
2489 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
2491 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
2492 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
2493 family lists conveniently.
2494 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
2495 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
2496 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
2498 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
2499 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
2501 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
2502 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
2503 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
2504 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
2505 if their identity keys are as expected.
2506 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
2507 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
2508 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
2510 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2511 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
2512 reported by Mike Perry.
2513 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
2514 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
2515 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
2516 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
2519 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
2520 o Security bugfixes:
2521 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
2522 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
2523 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
2524 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
2528 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
2529 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
2530 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
2533 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
2535 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
2536 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
2537 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
2540 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
2541 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
2542 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
2543 watching for STREAM events.
2544 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
2545 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
2546 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
2547 operations, for profiling.
2550 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
2551 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
2552 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
2553 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
2554 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
2555 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
2557 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
2561 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
2562 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
2563 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
2564 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
2565 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
2567 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
2568 correctly in the Windows installer.
2569 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
2570 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
2571 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
2573 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
2574 when we're running as a client.
2577 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
2579 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
2580 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
2581 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
2582 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
2583 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
2584 its circuits on demand.
2585 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
2586 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
2587 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
2588 connections more stable on average.
2589 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
2590 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
2591 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
2593 o Security bugfixes:
2594 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
2595 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
2598 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
2600 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
2601 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
2602 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
2603 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
2604 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
2605 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
2606 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
2607 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
2610 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
2612 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
2613 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
2614 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
2615 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
2616 routers for even longer.
2617 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
2618 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
2619 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
2620 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
2621 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
2622 caching HTTP proxies.
2623 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
2626 o Minor features, controller:
2627 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
2628 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
2629 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
2630 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
2632 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
2633 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
2634 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
2635 working much like those for circuit events.
2636 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
2637 about the current status of a router.
2638 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
2639 a router's status has changed.
2640 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
2641 can tell which events and features are supported.
2642 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
2643 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
2645 o Security bugfixes:
2646 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
2647 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
2650 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
2651 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
2652 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
2653 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
2654 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
2655 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
2656 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
2657 long nicknames where appropriate.
2658 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
2659 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
2660 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
2661 chews through many circuits before giving up.
2662 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
2663 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
2664 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
2665 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
2666 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
2667 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
2669 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
2670 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
2671 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
2673 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
2674 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
2675 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
2676 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
2677 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
2678 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
2679 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
2680 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
2681 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
2682 (reported by fookoowa).
2683 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
2684 and reported by some Centos users.
2685 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
2686 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
2687 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
2688 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
2689 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
2690 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
2691 before we check for libevent.
2694 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
2696 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
2697 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
2698 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
2699 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
2700 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
2701 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
2702 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
2703 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
2704 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
2705 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
2706 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
2707 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
2708 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
2709 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
2710 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
2711 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
2712 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
2713 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
2714 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
2715 lets you turn it off.
2716 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
2717 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
2718 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
2719 us into the directory more quickly.
2721 o New/improved config options:
2722 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
2723 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
2724 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
2725 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
2726 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
2727 all the machines on the same subnet.
2728 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
2729 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
2730 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
2731 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
2732 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
2733 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
2734 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
2735 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
2736 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
2737 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
2739 o Minor features, controller:
2740 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
2741 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
2742 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
2743 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
2744 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
2745 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
2746 for more information.
2747 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
2748 best guess to the user.
2749 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
2750 descriptor has changed.
2751 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
2753 o Minor features, other:
2754 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
2755 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
2756 useful to the network.
2757 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
2758 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
2759 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
2760 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
2761 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
2762 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
2763 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
2764 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
2765 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
2766 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
2767 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
2768 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
2769 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
2770 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
2771 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
2773 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
2774 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
2775 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
2776 could return an unnamed server instead.
2777 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
2778 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
2779 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
2780 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
2781 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
2782 a more attractive target for compromise.)
2783 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
2784 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
2785 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
2787 o Major bugfixes, other:
2788 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
2789 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
2790 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
2791 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
2792 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
2793 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
2794 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
2795 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
2796 its circuits on demand.
2797 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
2798 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
2799 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
2800 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
2802 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
2803 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
2804 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
2806 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
2808 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
2809 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
2810 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
2811 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
2812 "extendcircuit" request.
2813 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
2814 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
2815 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
2817 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
2818 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
2819 instead of "X resolved to X".
2820 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
2821 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
2822 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
2823 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
2824 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
2825 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
2826 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
2827 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
2828 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
2830 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
2831 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
2832 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
2833 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
2834 result more than once.
2835 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
2836 non-versioning dirservers.
2837 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
2838 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
2840 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
2841 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
2842 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
2843 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
2844 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
2845 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
2846 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
2847 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
2848 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
2850 o Packaging, features:
2851 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
2852 now universal binaries.
2853 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
2854 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
2855 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
2857 o Packaging, bugfixes:
2858 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
2859 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
2860 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
2861 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
2863 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
2864 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
2865 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
2868 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
2869 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
2870 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
2874 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
2876 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
2877 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
2878 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
2879 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
2880 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
2881 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
2882 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
2883 it can't resolve its hostname.
2886 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
2887 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
2888 "extendcircuit" request.
2889 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
2890 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
2891 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
2892 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
2894 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
2895 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
2896 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
2898 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
2899 methods: these are known to be buggy.
2900 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
2901 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
2905 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
2907 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
2908 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
2909 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
2910 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
2911 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
2912 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
2913 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
2914 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
2915 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
2916 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
2917 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
2918 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
2919 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
2920 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
2921 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
2922 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
2923 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
2924 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
2925 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
2926 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
2927 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
2928 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
2929 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
2930 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
2933 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
2934 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
2935 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
2936 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
2937 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
2938 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
2939 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
2940 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
2941 recommendation system saner.)
2942 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
2944 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
2945 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
2946 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
2947 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
2948 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
2949 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
2950 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
2951 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
2952 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
2953 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
2954 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
2955 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
2957 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
2958 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
2959 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
2960 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
2961 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
2962 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
2963 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
2964 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
2965 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
2966 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
2967 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
2968 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
2970 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
2971 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
2972 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
2973 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
2974 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
2975 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
2978 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
2979 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
2980 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
2981 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
2982 our DirPort now, etc.
2983 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
2984 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
2985 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
2986 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
2987 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
2988 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
2989 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
2991 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
2992 whether the config options are bad or good.
2993 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
2994 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
2995 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
2996 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
2997 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
2998 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
2999 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
3000 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
3003 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
3004 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
3005 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
3006 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
3007 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
3008 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
3009 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
3010 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
3011 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
3012 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
3013 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
3014 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
3015 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
3016 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
3017 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
3018 of it), is not therefore "up".
3019 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
3020 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
3021 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
3022 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
3023 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
3024 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
3027 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
3029 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
3030 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
3031 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
3032 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
3033 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
3034 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
3035 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
3036 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
3037 test reachability, so you won't publish.
3040 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
3041 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
3042 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
3043 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
3044 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
3046 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
3047 own server descriptor yet.
3050 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
3052 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
3053 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
3054 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
3055 make sure to test via one of these.
3056 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
3057 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
3058 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
3059 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
3060 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
3062 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
3063 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
3064 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
3067 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
3068 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
3069 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
3070 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
3071 directory authority.
3072 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
3073 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
3074 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
3075 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
3078 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
3079 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
3080 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
3082 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
3083 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
3084 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
3085 current guards when picking a new guard.
3086 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
3087 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
3088 when we had more than one pending.
3089 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
3090 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
3091 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
3092 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
3093 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
3094 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
3095 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
3096 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
3097 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
3098 debug the reachability problems better.
3100 o Log / documentation fixes:
3101 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
3102 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
3103 about protocol violations by others.
3104 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
3105 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
3106 about what happened to our old torrc.
3109 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
3111 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
3113 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
3114 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
3115 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
3116 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
3119 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
3121 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
3122 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
3123 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
3124 old ORPort and receive connections.
3125 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
3127 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
3128 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
3129 and network-statuses.
3130 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
3131 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
3132 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
3133 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
3135 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
3138 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
3139 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
3140 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
3143 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
3145 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
3146 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
3147 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
3148 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
3149 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
3152 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
3153 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
3155 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
3156 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
3157 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
3158 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
3159 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
3160 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
3161 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
3162 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
3163 rather than not sending anything back at all.
3164 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
3165 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
3166 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
3167 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
3168 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
3169 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
3170 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
3171 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
3172 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
3173 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
3174 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
3175 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
3176 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
3177 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
3178 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
3179 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
3180 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
3181 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
3182 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
3183 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
3184 default ulimit -n is 1024.
3187 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
3188 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
3189 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
3190 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
3193 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
3195 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
3196 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
3197 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
3198 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
3199 entry guards running these flawed versions.
3200 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
3201 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
3202 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
3203 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
3204 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
3207 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
3208 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
3210 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
3211 and it is confusing some users.
3212 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
3213 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
3214 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
3215 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
3216 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
3219 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
3221 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
3222 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
3223 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
3224 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
3225 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
3226 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
3227 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
3228 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
3229 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
3230 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
3231 dirport is set for now.
3233 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
3234 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
3235 unattached before we fail it?
3236 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
3237 at least this many seconds ago.
3238 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
3239 at least this many seconds ago.
3242 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
3243 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
3244 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
3245 or resolve-wait stream.
3246 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
3247 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
3248 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
3249 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
3250 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
3251 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
3252 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
3253 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
3255 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
3256 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
3257 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
3258 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
3259 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
3260 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
3261 given as hex digests.
3262 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
3263 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
3264 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
3265 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
3266 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
3267 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
3268 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
3269 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
3272 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3273 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
3274 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
3275 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
3276 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
3277 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
3278 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
3279 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
3280 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
3281 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
3282 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
3285 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
3286 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
3287 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
3288 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
3289 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
3290 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
3291 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
3294 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
3295 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
3296 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
3297 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
3298 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
3299 misreading their logs.
3300 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
3301 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
3302 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
3303 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
3304 valid router descriptors.
3305 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
3306 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
3307 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
3308 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
3309 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
3310 silently resetting it to its default.
3311 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
3313 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
3316 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
3318 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
3319 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
3320 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
3321 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
3322 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
3324 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
3325 because older Tors do not understand it.
3326 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
3330 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
3331 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
3332 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
3333 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
3334 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
3335 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
3336 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
3337 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
3338 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
3339 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
3340 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
3342 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
3343 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
3344 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
3345 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
3347 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
3348 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
3351 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
3352 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
3353 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
3354 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
3355 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
3356 without getting overloaded.
3357 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
3359 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
3360 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
3361 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
3362 be forward-compatible.
3363 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
3364 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
3365 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
3366 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
3368 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
3369 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
3370 and OR conns to port 443.
3371 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
3372 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
3374 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
3375 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
3376 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
3377 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
3378 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
3379 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
3380 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
3383 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
3384 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3385 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
3386 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
3388 o Other important bugfixes:
3389 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
3390 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
3391 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
3392 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
3394 o Backported features:
3395 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
3396 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
3397 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
3398 without getting overloaded.
3399 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
3400 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
3401 503's whenever they feel busy.
3402 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
3403 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
3404 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
3405 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
3406 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
3409 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
3410 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
3411 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
3412 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
3413 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
3414 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
3415 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
3416 know if the crashes continue.
3417 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
3418 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
3419 seg faults in at least some cases.)
3420 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
3421 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
3422 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
3425 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
3426 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
3427 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
3428 try to be a bit more fair.
3429 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
3430 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
3431 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
3432 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
3433 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
3434 bug that let it go negative.
3435 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
3436 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
3437 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
3438 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
3439 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
3440 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
3441 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
3442 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
3443 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
3444 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
3445 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
3448 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
3450 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
3451 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
3452 service descriptors.
3455 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
3456 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
3457 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
3458 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
3460 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
3461 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
3462 versions *are* still recommended.
3463 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
3464 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
3465 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
3466 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
3467 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
3468 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
3469 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
3470 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
3472 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
3473 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
3474 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
3475 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
3476 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
3477 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
3478 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
3479 on it. Not used by clients yet.
3480 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
3481 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
3482 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
3483 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
3484 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
3485 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
3486 established a circuit.
3487 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
3488 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
3489 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
3490 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
3493 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
3494 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
3495 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
3496 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
3497 quickly enough. Oops.
3498 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
3500 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3501 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
3504 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
3505 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
3506 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
3507 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
3508 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
3509 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
3510 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
3511 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
3512 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
3513 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
3514 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
3515 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
3516 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
3517 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
3518 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
3519 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
3520 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
3523 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
3524 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
3525 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
3526 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
3527 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
3528 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
3529 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
3530 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
3531 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
3532 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
3533 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
3534 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
3535 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
3536 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
3537 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
3538 connections more reliable.
3541 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
3542 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
3543 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
3544 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
3545 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
3546 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
3547 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
3548 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
3549 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
3550 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
3551 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
3552 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
3553 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
3554 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
3558 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
3559 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
3560 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
3561 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
3562 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
3563 need to be uint64_t's.
3564 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
3565 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
3566 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
3568 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
3570 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
3571 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
3572 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
3573 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
3574 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
3575 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
3576 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
3578 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
3579 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
3580 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
3581 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
3582 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
3583 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
3584 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
3585 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
3586 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
3587 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
3588 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
3589 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
3590 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
3593 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
3594 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
3595 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
3596 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
3597 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
3598 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
3599 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
3601 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
3602 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
3603 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
3604 can answer v2 directory requests too.
3605 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
3606 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
3607 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
3608 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
3610 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
3611 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
3612 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
3613 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
3614 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
3615 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
3616 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
3617 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
3618 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
3619 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
3620 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
3621 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
3622 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
3623 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
3624 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
3626 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
3627 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
3630 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
3631 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3632 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
3633 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
3634 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
3635 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
3636 too -- so detect and avoid this.
3637 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
3639 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
3640 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
3641 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
3642 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
3643 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
3644 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
3645 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
3646 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
3647 rendezvous circuits.
3648 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
3650 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3651 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
3652 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
3653 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
3654 advertising it because of hibernation.
3655 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
3656 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
3657 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
3658 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
3659 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
3660 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
3661 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
3662 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
3663 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
3664 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
3665 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
3666 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
3667 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
3668 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
3671 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
3672 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3673 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
3674 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
3675 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
3676 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
3677 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
3678 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
3679 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
3680 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
3681 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
3682 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
3683 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
3684 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
3685 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
3686 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
3687 connections once a week.
3688 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
3689 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
3690 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
3691 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
3692 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
3693 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
3695 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
3696 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
3697 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
3699 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3700 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
3701 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
3702 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
3703 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
3704 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
3705 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
3706 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
3707 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
3708 firewall options forbid.
3709 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
3710 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
3711 can only proxy to certain destinations.
3712 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
3713 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
3714 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
3715 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
3716 aids some statistical attacks.
3717 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
3718 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
3719 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
3720 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
3722 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
3723 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
3724 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
3725 server descriptor sometimes.
3726 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
3727 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
3728 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
3729 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
3730 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
3731 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
3732 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
3733 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
3735 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
3736 case the controller wants to change that too.
3737 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
3738 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
3739 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
3740 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
3742 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
3743 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
3744 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
3746 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
3747 descriptors that they know they will reject.
3749 o Features and updates:
3750 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
3751 significantly faster.
3752 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
3753 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
3754 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
3755 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
3756 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
3757 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
3758 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
3759 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
3760 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
3761 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
3762 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
3763 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
3764 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
3765 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
3766 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
3767 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
3768 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
3769 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
3770 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
3771 as authoritative dirserver.
3772 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
3773 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
3774 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
3777 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
3778 o Usability improvements:
3779 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
3780 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
3782 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
3783 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
3784 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
3786 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
3787 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
3788 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
3789 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
3790 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
3791 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
3792 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
3793 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
3794 memory leaks better.
3795 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
3796 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
3797 their operators to pay close attention.
3798 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
3799 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
3801 o Performance improvements:
3802 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
3803 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
3804 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
3805 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
3806 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
3807 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
3808 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
3809 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
3810 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
3811 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
3812 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
3813 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
3814 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
3815 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
3816 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
3817 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
3818 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
3820 o Security improvements:
3821 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
3822 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
3823 fingerprint of server.
3824 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
3825 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
3826 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
3828 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3829 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
3830 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
3831 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
3832 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
3833 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
3834 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
3835 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
3836 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
3837 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
3838 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
3839 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
3840 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
3841 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
3842 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
3843 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
3844 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
3845 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
3846 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
3847 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
3848 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
3850 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
3851 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
3852 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
3854 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
3855 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
3857 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
3858 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
3859 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
3860 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
3861 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
3862 of the controller protocol.
3863 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
3864 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
3865 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
3868 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
3869 o New features (major):
3870 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
3871 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
3872 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
3873 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
3874 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
3875 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
3876 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
3877 we're using a default DirPort.
3878 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
3880 o New features (minor):
3881 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
3882 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
3883 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
3884 mirrors still cache and serve it).
3885 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
3886 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
3887 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
3888 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
3889 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
3890 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
3891 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
3892 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
3893 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
3894 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
3895 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
3896 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
3897 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
3898 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
3899 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
3901 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
3902 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
3903 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
3904 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
3905 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
3906 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
3907 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
3908 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
3910 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
3911 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
3912 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
3913 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
3914 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
3915 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
3916 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
3917 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
3918 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
3919 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
3921 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
3922 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
3923 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
3924 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
3925 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
3928 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
3929 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
3931 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
3932 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
3934 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
3935 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
3936 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
3937 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
3938 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
3939 don't warn twice about the same name.
3940 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
3941 if we've not heard of the server.
3942 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
3943 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
3946 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
3947 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3948 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
3949 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
3950 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
3951 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
3952 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
3953 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
3954 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
3955 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
3956 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
3957 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
3958 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
3959 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
3960 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
3963 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
3964 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
3965 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
3966 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
3967 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
3969 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
3970 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
3971 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
3972 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
3973 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
3974 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
3978 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
3979 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
3980 nickname) is reachable by you.
3981 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
3985 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
3986 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
3987 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
3988 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
3989 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
3990 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
3991 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
3992 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
3993 we fail to connect).
3994 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
3995 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
3996 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
3997 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
3999 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
4000 it was self-testing that told us so.
4003 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
4004 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
4005 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4006 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4007 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
4008 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
4009 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
4010 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
4011 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
4012 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
4013 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
4014 exit policy using him for any exits.
4015 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
4018 o New controller features/fixes:
4019 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
4020 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
4021 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
4022 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
4023 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
4024 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
4025 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
4026 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
4027 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
4029 o Start on the new directory design:
4030 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
4031 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
4033 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
4034 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
4035 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
4036 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
4038 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
4039 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
4040 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
4041 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
4042 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
4043 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
4044 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
4045 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
4048 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
4049 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
4050 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
4051 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
4052 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
4053 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
4054 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
4055 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
4056 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
4057 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
4059 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
4060 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
4061 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
4062 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
4063 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
4064 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
4065 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
4066 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
4067 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
4069 o Config option changes:
4070 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
4071 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
4072 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
4073 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4074 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4075 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
4078 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
4079 people have started using them for spam too.
4080 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
4081 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
4082 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
4083 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
4084 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
4085 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
4086 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
4087 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
4088 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
4089 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
4090 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
4091 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
4092 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
4093 services faster on the service end.
4094 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
4095 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
4096 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
4097 it a fair shake next time we try.
4098 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
4099 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
4100 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
4101 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
4102 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
4103 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
4104 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
4105 able to discover them.
4106 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
4107 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
4108 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
4109 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
4110 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
4111 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
4112 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
4113 testing for reachability.
4114 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
4115 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
4117 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
4119 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
4120 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
4123 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
4124 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
4126 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4127 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
4128 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
4129 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
4132 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
4133 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4134 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
4136 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
4137 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
4140 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
4141 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
4144 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
4145 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
4146 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
4147 options, getinfo keys.
4150 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
4151 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4152 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
4153 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4154 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4155 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
4156 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
4158 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
4159 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
4163 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
4164 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4165 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
4167 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
4169 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
4170 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
4171 circuit events and we go offline.
4172 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
4173 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
4174 you don't have enough intro points already.
4176 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4177 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
4178 many bytes we've used in this time period.
4179 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
4180 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
4181 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
4182 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
4183 enabled by default yet.
4185 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
4186 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
4187 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
4188 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4189 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4192 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
4193 o New directory servers:
4194 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4196 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4197 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4198 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4200 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
4201 claims its dirport is 0.
4202 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
4203 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
4207 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
4208 o New directory servers:
4209 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4211 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
4212 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
4214 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
4215 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
4216 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
4217 ports that have changed.
4218 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4220 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
4221 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
4222 Windows-style errno back.
4223 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
4225 want to make it an NT service.
4226 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
4227 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
4228 name, give the full name in our response.
4229 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
4230 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
4231 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
4232 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4235 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4236 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
4240 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
4241 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
4242 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
4243 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
4244 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
4247 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
4248 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4249 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
4250 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
4251 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4252 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4253 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4254 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
4257 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
4259 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4260 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4261 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4262 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
4263 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
4264 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
4266 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
4267 temporarily unreachable.
4268 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
4272 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
4273 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
4274 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
4276 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
4280 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
4281 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
4282 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
4283 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
4284 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
4288 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
4289 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
4290 libevent before 1.1a.
4293 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
4295 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
4296 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
4297 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
4298 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
4299 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
4301 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
4302 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
4303 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
4304 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
4305 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
4306 of CPU time plus memory.
4307 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
4308 normal web requests.
4309 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
4310 tor_lookup_hostname().
4311 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
4312 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
4313 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
4314 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
4315 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
4316 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
4318 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
4319 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
4320 HttpProxyAuthenticator
4321 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
4322 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
4323 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
4325 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
4326 the user asks you to.
4327 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
4328 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
4329 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
4330 their descriptors are being rejected.
4331 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
4335 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
4337 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
4338 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
4339 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
4341 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
4343 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
4345 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
4346 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
4347 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
4348 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
4349 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
4350 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
4351 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
4352 keys) from the exit server's process.
4353 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
4354 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
4355 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
4356 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
4357 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
4358 point at your Tor server.
4359 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
4360 you're not sending a socks reply back.
4363 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
4364 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
4365 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
4366 to make it easier to write controllers.
4369 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
4371 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
4372 installing on Tiger.
4373 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
4374 complain during installation.
4375 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
4376 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
4377 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
4378 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
4379 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
4380 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
4382 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
4383 something more reasonable when first installing.
4384 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
4387 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
4389 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
4390 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
4392 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
4393 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
4394 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
4395 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
4396 when using the default exit policy.
4397 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
4398 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
4399 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
4400 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
4401 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
4402 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
4403 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
4404 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
4405 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
4406 we fetched a new directory.
4407 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
4408 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
4411 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
4412 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
4413 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
4414 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
4415 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
4416 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
4417 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
4418 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
4420 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
4421 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
4422 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
4423 save memory on systems that need to fork.
4424 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
4425 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
4426 is valid without actually launching Tor.
4427 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
4428 rather than just rejecting it.
4431 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
4433 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
4434 we didn't like its cert.
4436 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
4437 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
4438 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
4439 on patch from Adam Langley.
4440 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
4441 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
4442 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
4443 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
4445 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
4446 directory every time you regenerate it.
4447 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
4448 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
4451 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
4452 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
4453 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
4454 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
4455 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
4458 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
4460 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
4461 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
4462 TLS errors better in other situations too.
4463 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
4464 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
4465 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
4466 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
4467 and don't log when you are.
4468 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
4469 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
4471 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
4472 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
4473 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
4474 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
4475 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
4478 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
4479 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
4480 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
4481 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
4482 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
4483 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
4484 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
4485 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
4486 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
4487 nickname+key are allowed.
4488 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
4489 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
4490 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
4491 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
4492 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
4493 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
4494 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
4495 have quite wrong clocks).
4496 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
4497 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
4498 - Efficiency improvements:
4499 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
4500 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
4501 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
4502 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
4503 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
4504 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
4505 lowercase and be done with it.
4506 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
4507 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
4508 to abandon partially built circuits.
4509 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
4510 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
4512 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
4514 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
4515 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
4516 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
4517 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
4519 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
4520 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
4522 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
4523 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
4524 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
4525 obeying the exit policy internally.
4526 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
4527 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
4529 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
4530 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
4531 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
4532 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
4534 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
4535 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
4536 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
4537 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
4538 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
4540 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
4541 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
4542 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
4543 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
4544 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
4545 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
4546 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
4547 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
4548 descriptors we just dropped.
4549 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
4550 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
4551 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
4552 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
4553 artificially capped at 500kB.
4556 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
4557 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
4558 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
4559 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
4560 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
4561 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
4562 busy for more than 100 seconds.
4565 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
4566 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
4567 - Fixes on reachability detection:
4568 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
4569 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
4570 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
4571 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
4572 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
4573 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
4574 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
4575 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
4576 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
4577 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
4578 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
4579 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
4580 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
4581 server not already connected to them.
4582 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
4583 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
4584 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
4586 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
4588 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
4589 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
4590 are in a different state than they actually are.
4591 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
4592 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
4593 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
4595 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
4596 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
4597 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
4599 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
4600 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
4601 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
4602 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
4603 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
4604 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
4605 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
4607 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
4608 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
4609 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
4610 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
4613 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
4614 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
4615 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
4616 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
4617 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
4618 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
4619 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
4620 creating actual system users.
4621 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
4622 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
4626 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
4628 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
4629 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
4630 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
4631 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
4632 hidden services better.
4633 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
4635 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
4636 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
4637 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
4638 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
4639 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
4640 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
4641 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
4642 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
4643 patch by Matt Edman).
4644 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
4645 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
4646 required exit node for certain sites.
4647 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
4648 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
4649 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
4650 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
4651 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
4652 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
4653 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
4654 rather than just "success" or "failure".
4655 - A more sane version numbering system. See
4656 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
4657 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
4658 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
4660 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
4661 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
4662 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
4663 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
4664 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
4665 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
4666 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
4668 o Robustness/stability fixes:
4669 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
4670 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
4671 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
4673 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
4674 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
4675 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
4677 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
4678 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
4679 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
4681 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
4682 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
4683 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
4684 that will want high uptime circuits.
4685 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
4686 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
4687 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
4688 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
4689 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
4690 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
4691 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
4692 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
4693 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
4694 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
4695 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
4696 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
4697 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
4698 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
4699 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
4700 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
4701 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
4702 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
4703 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
4704 when we try to launch one.
4705 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
4706 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
4707 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
4708 "ShutdownWaitLength".
4709 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
4710 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
4711 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
4712 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
4713 and to take errno into account where possible.
4716 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
4717 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
4718 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
4719 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
4720 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
4721 file more reasonable.
4722 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
4723 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
4724 addresses -- it won't.
4725 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
4726 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
4727 for google.com" problem.
4728 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
4729 so it's not just "unknown platform".
4730 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
4731 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
4732 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
4733 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
4735 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
4736 they could use instead.
4737 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
4738 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
4739 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
4740 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
4741 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
4742 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
4743 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
4744 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
4745 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
4747 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
4751 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
4752 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
4754 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
4755 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
4756 private-IP addresses.
4757 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
4758 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
4760 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
4761 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
4762 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
4763 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
4764 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
4765 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
4766 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
4768 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
4769 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
4770 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
4771 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
4772 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
4773 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
4774 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
4775 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
4777 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
4779 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
4780 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
4781 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
4782 whether the server is hibernating.
4785 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
4786 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
4787 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
4788 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
4789 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
4790 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
4791 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
4792 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
4793 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
4794 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
4795 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
4796 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
4797 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
4798 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
4799 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
4801 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
4802 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
4803 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
4804 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
4805 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
4806 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
4807 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
4808 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
4809 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
4810 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
4811 existing torrc files.
4812 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
4815 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
4816 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
4817 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
4818 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
4819 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
4820 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
4821 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
4822 the win32 SYSTEM account.
4823 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
4824 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
4825 file descriptors available.
4826 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
4827 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
4828 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
4831 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
4832 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4833 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
4834 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
4836 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
4837 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
4838 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
4839 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
4840 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
4842 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
4843 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
4844 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
4845 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
4846 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
4847 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
4848 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
4849 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
4850 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
4851 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
4852 800kB/s of capacity.
4853 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
4856 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
4857 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4858 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
4859 need as much processor time.
4860 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
4861 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
4862 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
4863 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
4864 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
4865 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
4866 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
4867 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
4868 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
4869 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
4870 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
4871 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
4873 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
4874 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
4875 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
4876 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
4877 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
4878 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
4879 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
4882 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
4883 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
4884 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
4886 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
4887 style address, then we'd crash.
4888 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
4889 a dirserver is broken.
4890 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
4892 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
4893 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
4894 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
4896 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
4897 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
4898 name out of the warning/assert messages.
4899 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
4900 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
4901 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
4903 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
4904 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
4905 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
4907 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
4909 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
4910 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
4911 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
4912 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
4913 values at once couldn't work.
4914 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
4915 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
4916 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
4917 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
4918 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
4919 they can handle any number of routers.
4920 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
4921 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
4922 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
4923 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
4924 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
4925 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
4926 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
4927 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
4928 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
4931 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
4932 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4933 - Make hibernation actually work.
4934 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
4935 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
4936 don't use the stream status code.
4939 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
4941 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
4942 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
4944 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
4947 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
4948 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
4949 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
4950 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
4951 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
4952 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
4953 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
4954 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
4955 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
4956 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
4958 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4959 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
4960 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
4961 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
4962 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
4963 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
4964 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
4965 - Make unit tests work on win32.
4968 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
4969 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
4970 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
4972 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
4973 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
4974 than just chopping them off.
4975 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
4977 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4978 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
4979 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
4980 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
4981 right after sending the begin cell.
4982 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
4983 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
4984 exit nodes too. Oops.
4987 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
4988 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
4989 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
4990 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
4991 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
4992 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
4993 the user knows which one it's talking about.
4994 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
4995 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
4996 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
4999 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
5000 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5001 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
5002 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
5004 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
5006 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5007 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
5008 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
5010 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
5011 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
5012 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
5013 Clip rather than rejecting.
5014 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
5015 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
5018 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
5019 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
5020 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
5021 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
5023 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
5026 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
5027 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5028 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
5029 win32 socket errors better.
5031 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5032 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
5035 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
5036 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5037 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
5038 so we don't see those messages days later.
5040 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5041 - Make tor-resolve work again.
5042 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
5043 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
5046 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
5047 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5048 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
5049 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
5051 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
5052 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
5053 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
5056 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
5057 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5058 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
5059 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
5060 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
5061 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
5062 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
5063 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
5064 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
5066 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
5067 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
5068 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
5069 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
5071 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
5072 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
5075 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
5076 hibernation properties by
5077 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
5078 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
5079 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
5080 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
5081 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
5082 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
5083 get back to normal.)
5084 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
5086 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
5087 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
5088 to fill the last cell completely.
5089 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
5092 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
5093 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5094 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
5095 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
5096 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
5097 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
5098 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
5099 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
5100 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
5101 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
5102 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
5104 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
5105 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
5106 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
5107 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
5108 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
5109 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
5110 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
5111 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
5113 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
5114 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
5115 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
5116 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
5117 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
5118 have it on start-up.
5121 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
5122 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
5123 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
5124 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
5125 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
5126 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
5127 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
5128 configuration to torrc.
5129 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
5130 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
5131 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
5132 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
5133 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
5135 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
5136 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
5137 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
5138 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
5139 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
5140 log more informatively.
5141 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
5142 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
5143 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
5144 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
5145 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
5146 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
5147 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
5148 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
5149 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
5150 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
5151 from each other, to hinder linkability.
5154 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
5155 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
5156 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
5157 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
5158 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
5159 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
5160 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
5162 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
5163 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
5164 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
5165 they ran out of file descriptors.
5166 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
5167 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
5168 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
5169 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
5170 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
5171 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
5172 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
5174 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
5177 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
5178 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
5179 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
5180 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
5181 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
5182 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
5183 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
5184 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
5185 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
5186 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
5187 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
5188 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
5189 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
5190 with the control port.
5191 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
5192 use in authenticating to the control interface.
5193 - New log format in config:
5194 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
5195 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
5198 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
5199 from their dirserver.
5200 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
5202 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
5203 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
5204 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
5205 them act more like real nodes.
5206 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
5207 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
5209 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
5210 nickname to its identity key.
5211 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
5212 not on the command line.
5213 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
5214 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
5215 1024) file descriptors.
5217 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
5218 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
5220 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
5221 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
5222 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
5225 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
5226 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
5227 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
5228 exit policy, not reject *:*.
5229 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
5230 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
5231 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
5232 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
5233 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
5234 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
5235 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
5238 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
5239 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
5240 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
5241 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
5242 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
5243 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
5244 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
5247 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
5248 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5249 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
5250 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
5251 the ones we find in directories.)
5252 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
5254 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
5255 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
5257 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
5258 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
5259 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
5261 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
5262 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
5263 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
5264 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
5266 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
5267 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
5268 any more exit policy lines.
5271 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
5272 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
5273 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
5274 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
5275 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
5276 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
5277 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
5278 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
5279 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
5280 will be able to get a directory.
5281 - Http proxy support
5282 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
5283 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
5284 be routed through this host.
5285 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
5286 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
5287 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
5288 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
5291 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
5293 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
5294 clients/servers with an open dirport.
5295 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
5296 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
5297 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
5298 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
5299 intermittent connections.
5300 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
5301 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
5303 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
5304 in reporting stats locally.
5305 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
5306 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
5307 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
5310 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
5312 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
5313 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
5316 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
5318 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
5319 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
5320 if you don't want it open.
5321 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
5322 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
5323 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
5324 intermittent connections.
5325 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
5327 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
5328 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
5329 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
5330 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
5331 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
5332 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
5333 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
5334 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
5335 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
5336 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
5337 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
5338 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
5339 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
5340 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
5341 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
5342 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
5345 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
5346 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
5347 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
5348 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
5349 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
5351 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
5353 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
5354 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
5355 specified in HTTP 1.0.
5356 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
5357 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
5358 than once per minute.
5359 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
5360 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
5363 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
5364 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
5367 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
5368 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
5369 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
5370 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
5373 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
5374 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
5376 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
5377 don't put it into the client dns cache.
5378 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
5379 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
5380 until we get our next directory.
5382 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
5383 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
5384 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
5385 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
5386 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
5387 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
5388 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
5389 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
5390 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
5391 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
5392 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
5394 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
5396 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
5397 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
5399 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
5400 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
5401 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
5403 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
5405 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
5406 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
5407 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
5408 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
5409 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
5410 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
5411 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
5412 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
5415 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
5416 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
5417 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
5418 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
5421 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
5422 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
5423 ask them to resolve the host "".
5426 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
5427 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
5428 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
5429 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
5430 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
5431 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
5432 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
5433 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
5434 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
5435 clients don't use this yet.)
5436 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
5437 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
5438 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
5439 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
5440 for pointing out this bug.)
5441 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
5442 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
5443 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
5444 kazaa, gnutella ports.
5445 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
5447 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
5448 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
5449 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
5450 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
5451 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
5452 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
5453 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
5454 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
5455 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
5457 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
5458 that's still handshaking.
5459 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
5460 you'll choose it for your path.
5461 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
5462 end relay cell, etc.
5463 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
5464 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
5465 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
5468 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
5469 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
5471 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
5472 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
5473 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
5474 list to decide who's running or verified.
5475 - Bugfixes and features:
5476 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
5477 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
5478 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
5479 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
5480 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
5481 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
5483 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
5484 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
5485 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
5486 know you might want to get it verified.
5487 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
5490 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
5492 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
5493 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
5494 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
5495 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
5498 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
5499 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
5500 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
5501 hadn't heard of before.
5504 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
5505 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
5506 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
5507 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
5508 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
5509 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
5510 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
5511 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
5512 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
5513 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
5514 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
5515 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
5516 - Directory caching.
5517 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
5518 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
5519 directory they've pulled down.
5520 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
5521 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
5522 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
5523 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
5524 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
5525 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
5526 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
5528 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
5529 This isn't used yet.
5530 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
5531 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
5532 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
5533 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
5534 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
5535 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
5536 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
5537 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
5538 - File and name management:
5539 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
5540 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
5542 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
5543 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
5544 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
5545 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
5546 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
5547 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
5548 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
5550 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
5551 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
5552 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
5553 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
5554 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
5556 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
5557 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
5558 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
5559 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
5560 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
5561 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
5562 - New docs in the tarball:
5564 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
5567 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
5568 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
5569 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
5572 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
5573 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
5574 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
5577 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
5578 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
5581 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
5582 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
5583 - Make it build on Win32 again.
5584 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
5585 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
5589 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
5591 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
5592 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
5593 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
5594 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
5595 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
5596 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
5597 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
5598 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
5599 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
5600 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
5603 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
5606 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
5607 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
5608 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
5609 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
5611 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
5612 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
5613 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
5615 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
5616 hidden service per 15-minute period.
5617 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
5618 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
5619 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
5620 o Fixes for security bugs:
5621 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
5622 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
5623 a trusted dirserver.
5625 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
5626 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
5627 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
5628 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
5629 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
5630 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
5631 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
5632 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
5633 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
5634 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
5636 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
5637 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
5638 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
5639 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
5641 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
5642 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
5643 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
5644 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
5645 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
5646 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
5647 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
5648 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
5649 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
5650 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
5651 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
5652 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
5653 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
5656 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
5657 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
5658 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
5659 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
5662 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
5663 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
5664 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
5665 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
5666 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
5667 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
5668 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
5672 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
5676 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
5677 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
5678 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
5679 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
5680 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
5682 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
5685 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
5686 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
5687 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
5688 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
5689 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
5690 o Better debugging for tls errors
5691 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
5692 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
5693 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
5694 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
5695 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
5696 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
5697 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
5698 o win32's close can't close a socket.
5701 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
5702 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
5703 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
5704 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
5705 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
5706 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
5707 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
5708 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
5709 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
5710 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
5711 just close the circ.
5712 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
5713 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
5714 (this was quite rare).
5717 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
5718 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
5719 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
5720 if you decrypted them correctly.
5721 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
5722 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
5723 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
5726 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
5727 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
5728 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
5729 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
5730 a second one and it works.
5731 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
5732 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
5733 alice would just have to wait to time out.
5734 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
5735 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
5736 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
5737 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
5738 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
5739 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
5740 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
5741 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
5742 i'd still like to find the bug though.
5743 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
5745 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
5749 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
5750 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
5751 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
5752 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
5753 he retries a couple of times
5754 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
5755 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
5756 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
5757 too long (they were sticking around forever).
5758 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
5762 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
5763 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
5764 - make hup work again
5765 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
5766 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
5767 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
5768 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
5769 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
5770 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
5772 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
5773 o changes from 0.0.5:
5774 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
5775 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
5776 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
5777 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
5778 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
5780 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
5781 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
5782 in-memory directories too
5785 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
5786 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
5789 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
5791 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
5792 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
5793 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
5794 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
5797 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
5801 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
5802 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
5804 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
5805 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
5806 but that aren't warnings
5809 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
5810 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
5811 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
5812 the dns farm to do it.
5813 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
5814 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
5816 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
5817 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
5818 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
5821 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
5822 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
5823 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
5824 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
5825 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
5826 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
5827 expect it to have a nickname.
5828 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
5829 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
5832 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
5833 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
5837 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
5838 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
5839 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
5840 - include missing header fcntl.h
5841 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
5842 - deal with hardware word alignment
5843 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
5844 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
5845 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
5846 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
5847 by kill -USR1 currently.
5848 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
5849 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
5850 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
5853 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
5854 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
5855 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
5858 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
5860 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
5861 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
5862 - And fix a few endian issues.
5865 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
5867 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
5868 try that circuit again: try a new one.
5869 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
5870 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
5871 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
5872 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
5873 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
5874 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
5876 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
5877 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
5878 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
5880 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
5882 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
5883 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
5884 side isn't reading right then.
5885 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
5887 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
5888 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
5889 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
5892 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
5894 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
5895 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
5898 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
5902 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
5904 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
5905 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
5906 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
5907 connection is finished.
5908 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
5909 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
5910 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
5911 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
5912 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
5913 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
5914 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
5915 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
5916 rather than warn and continue.
5917 - Make --version work
5918 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
5921 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
5923 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
5925 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
5926 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
5928 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
5929 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
5930 so you can collect coredumps there.
5932 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
5933 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
5934 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
5935 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
5936 dns cache actually gets populated.
5937 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
5938 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
5939 end cell down it first.
5940 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
5941 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
5944 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
5946 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
5947 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
5949 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
5950 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
5951 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
5952 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
5953 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
5954 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
5956 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
5958 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
5959 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
5960 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
5961 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
5962 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
5963 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
5965 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
5966 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
5969 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
5971 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
5972 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
5973 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
5974 tor. It even has a man page.
5975 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
5976 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
5977 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
5978 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
5980 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
5982 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
5985 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
5987 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
5989 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
5990 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
5991 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
5992 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
5993 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
5994 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
5995 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
5996 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
5997 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
5998 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
5999 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
6001 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
6002 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
6005 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
6007 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
6008 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
6011 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
6013 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
6014 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
6015 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
6016 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
6017 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
6018 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
6019 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
6020 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
6021 logfile so you know it's working.
6022 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
6023 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
6026 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
6028 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
6029 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
6030 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
6033 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
6035 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
6036 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
6037 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
6040 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
6041 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
6042 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
6044 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
6045 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
6047 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
6048 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
6049 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
6051 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
6052 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
6056 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
6058 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
6059 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
6060 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
6063 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
6064 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
6065 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
6066 - Add port ranges to exit policies
6067 - Add a conservative default exit policy
6068 - Warn if you're running tor as root
6069 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
6070 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
6071 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
6072 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
6074 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
6077 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
6078 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6079 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
6080 really screw things up.
6081 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
6083 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
6084 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
6086 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
6087 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
6088 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
6089 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
6090 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
6091 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
6094 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
6097 - Change default loglevel to warn.
6098 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
6099 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
6101 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
6104 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
6105 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6106 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
6107 - to get ownership/permissions right
6108 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
6109 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
6110 pull down a directory again
6111 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
6112 causing server crashes
6113 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
6114 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
6115 - exit if bind() fails
6116 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
6117 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
6118 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
6119 - fix minor bias in PRNG
6120 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
6123 - Wrote the design document (woo)
6125 o Circuit building and exit policies:
6126 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
6128 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
6129 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
6130 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
6131 exists, rather than failing
6132 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
6133 which AP connections are standing by
6134 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
6135 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
6136 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
6138 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
6139 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
6142 - APPort is now called SocksPort
6143 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
6145 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
6146 hardcoded (for dirservers)
6147 - Reloads config on HUP
6148 - Usage info on -h or --help
6149 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
6151 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
6152 o General stability:
6153 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
6154 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
6155 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
6156 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
6157 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
6158 to take down the network when I approve a new router
6159 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
6162 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
6163 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
6165 o Autoconf improvements:
6166 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
6167 - Make install now works
6168 - create var/lib/tor on make install
6169 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
6170 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
6172 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
6173 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
6174 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
6175 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup