1 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
2 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
3 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
4 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
7 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
9 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
19 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
20 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
23 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
24 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
25 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
26 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
27 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
28 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
29 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
30 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
31 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
33 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
34 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
35 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
36 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
37 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
38 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
39 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
40 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
41 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
43 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
44 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
45 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
46 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
47 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
49 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
50 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
51 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
52 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
53 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
56 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
57 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
58 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
59 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
60 Reported by Guido Vranken.
62 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
63 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
64 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
66 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
67 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
68 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
69 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
70 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
71 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
74 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
75 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
76 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
77 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
78 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
79 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
80 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
83 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
84 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
85 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
86 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
87 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
88 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
89 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
91 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
92 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
93 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
94 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
97 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
98 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
99 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
100 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
102 o Minor features (geoip):
103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
106 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
107 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
108 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
110 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
111 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
112 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
113 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
114 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
115 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
117 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
118 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
119 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
123 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
124 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
125 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
126 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
127 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
129 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
130 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
132 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
133 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
134 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
135 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
136 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
137 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
138 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
140 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
141 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
142 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
143 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
144 Resolves ticket 15515.
147 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
148 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
150 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
151 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
152 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
154 o Directory authority changes:
155 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
156 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
157 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
158 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
161 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
162 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
163 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
166 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
167 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
168 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
169 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
170 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
171 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
172 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
173 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
175 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
176 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
177 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
178 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
180 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
181 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
182 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
183 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
185 o Minor features (controller):
186 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
187 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
188 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
190 o Minor features (geoip):
191 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
192 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
195 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
196 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
197 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
198 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
199 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
200 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
202 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
203 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
204 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
205 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
207 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
208 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
209 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
210 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
211 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
212 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
213 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
214 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
216 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
217 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
218 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
220 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
221 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
222 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
223 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
224 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
228 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
229 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
230 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
233 o Directory authority changes:
234 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
235 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
236 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
237 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
240 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
241 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
242 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
243 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
245 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
246 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
247 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
248 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
249 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
250 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
251 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
252 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
254 o Minor features (geoip):
255 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
256 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
260 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
261 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
263 It adds several new security features, including improved
264 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
265 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
266 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
267 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
268 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
269 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
270 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
271 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
272 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
273 and features mentioned below.
275 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
276 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
278 o Deprecated versions:
279 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
280 attention for some while.
283 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
284 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
285 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
286 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
287 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
288 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
290 o Major security fixes:
291 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
292 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
293 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
295 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
296 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
297 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
298 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
301 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
302 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
303 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
304 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
307 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
308 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
309 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
311 o Downgraded warnings:
312 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
313 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
316 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
317 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
318 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
319 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
320 (which does affect Tor).
322 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
323 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
324 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
325 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
327 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
328 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
329 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
330 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
333 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
334 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
335 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
336 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
337 the directory authorities.
340 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
341 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
342 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
343 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
344 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
345 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
346 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
347 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
348 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
349 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
350 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
351 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
353 o Directory authority changes:
354 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
357 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
358 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
359 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
360 the directory authorities.
363 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
364 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
365 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
366 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
367 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
368 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
369 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
370 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
371 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
372 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
373 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
374 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
376 o Directory authority changes:
377 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
379 o Minor features (geoip):
380 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
384 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
385 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
386 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
387 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
388 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
390 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
391 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
392 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
393 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
394 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
395 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
396 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
397 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
398 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
399 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
400 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
401 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
402 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
403 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
404 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
405 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
407 o Major bugfixes (relay):
408 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
409 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
410 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
411 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
412 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
413 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
414 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
416 o Minor features (bridge):
417 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
418 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
420 o Minor features (geoip):
421 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
424 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
425 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
426 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
427 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
428 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
429 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
430 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
431 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
432 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
433 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
434 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
435 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
436 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
437 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
438 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
440 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
441 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
442 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
443 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
444 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
446 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
447 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
448 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
449 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
450 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
454 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
455 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
456 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
457 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
458 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
459 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
460 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
461 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
462 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
463 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
466 o Distribution (systemd):
467 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
468 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
469 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
470 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
471 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
472 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
473 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
474 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
475 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
479 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
480 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
482 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
486 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
487 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
488 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
489 us closer to a release candidate.
491 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
492 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
493 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
494 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
495 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
497 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
498 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
499 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
500 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
501 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
502 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
503 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
504 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
505 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
509 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
510 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
511 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
512 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
513 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
514 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
515 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
519 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
520 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
521 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
522 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
523 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
524 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
525 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
526 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
528 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
530 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
531 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
532 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
533 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
534 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
535 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
536 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
537 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
538 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
539 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
542 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
543 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
544 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
545 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
547 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
548 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
549 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
552 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
553 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
554 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
555 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
558 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
559 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
560 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
561 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
562 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
563 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
564 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
565 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
566 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
567 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
570 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
571 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
572 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
573 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
574 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
575 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
576 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
577 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
581 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
582 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
583 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
584 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
585 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
586 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
587 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
588 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
589 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
590 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
591 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
592 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
593 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
596 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
600 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
601 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
602 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
603 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
604 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
605 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
608 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
609 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
610 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
611 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
612 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
613 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
614 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
615 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
616 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
617 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
618 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
619 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
620 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
622 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
623 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
624 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
625 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
628 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
629 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
630 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
632 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
633 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
634 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
635 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
636 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
637 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
638 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
639 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
640 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
641 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
642 router's identity is not forgeable.
644 o Major bugfixes (relay):
645 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
646 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
647 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
648 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
649 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
650 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
651 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
652 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
653 bugfix on every version of Tor.
655 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
656 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
657 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
658 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
661 o Minor features (diagnostic):
662 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
663 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
664 help diagnose bug 7164.
665 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
666 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
667 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
668 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
669 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
671 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
672 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
673 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
674 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
675 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
676 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
677 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
679 o Minor features (security, memory management):
680 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
681 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
682 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
683 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
684 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
685 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
687 o Minor features (security):
688 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
689 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
690 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
691 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
693 o Minor features (build):
694 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
695 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
696 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
698 o Minor features (other):
699 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
702 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
703 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
704 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
705 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
706 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
708 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
709 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
710 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
711 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
712 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
713 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
714 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
715 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
716 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
717 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
718 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
719 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
722 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
723 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
724 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
725 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
726 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
727 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
728 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
729 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
730 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
731 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
732 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
733 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
734 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
735 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
736 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
737 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
738 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
741 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
742 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
743 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
744 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
745 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
746 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
747 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
749 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
750 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
751 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
752 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
753 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
754 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
755 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
756 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
757 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
759 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
760 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
762 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
763 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
765 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
766 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
767 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
768 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
769 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
770 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
771 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
772 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
773 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
775 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
776 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
777 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
778 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
779 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
780 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
781 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
782 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
783 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
784 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
785 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
786 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
787 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
788 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
789 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
790 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
791 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
792 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
794 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
795 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
796 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
797 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
798 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
799 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
800 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
801 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
802 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
805 o Minor bugfixes (client):
806 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
807 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
808 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
809 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
811 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
812 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
813 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
814 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
816 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
817 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
818 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
819 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
820 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
821 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
822 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
823 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
825 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
826 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
827 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
828 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
831 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
832 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
833 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
834 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
835 versions. Found by "skruffy".
836 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
837 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
838 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
841 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
842 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
843 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
844 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
847 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
848 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
849 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
850 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
852 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
853 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
854 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
856 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
857 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
858 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
860 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
861 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
862 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
863 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
864 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
868 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
869 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
870 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
871 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
874 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
875 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
876 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
877 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
879 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
880 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
882 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
883 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
884 caches don't get confused.
887 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
888 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
889 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
890 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
891 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
894 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
895 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes #11742.
896 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
897 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
898 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
899 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
903 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
904 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
905 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
906 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
907 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
908 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
909 of RAM, and several others.
911 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
912 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
913 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
914 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
915 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
917 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
918 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
919 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
920 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
923 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
924 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
925 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
926 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
927 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
928 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
929 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
930 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
931 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
932 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
933 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
934 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
935 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
936 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
937 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
938 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
939 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
940 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
941 Resolves ticket 11438.
943 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
944 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
945 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
946 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
947 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
948 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
950 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
951 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
952 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
954 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
955 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
956 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
958 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
959 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
960 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
961 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
963 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
964 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
965 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
968 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
969 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
972 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
973 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
974 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
975 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
978 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
979 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
980 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
981 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
983 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
984 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
985 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
986 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
988 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
989 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
990 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
994 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
995 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
996 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
997 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
998 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
999 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
1000 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
1001 the Linux sandbox code.
1003 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
1004 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
1005 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
1007 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
1008 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1010 o Major features (security):
1011 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
1012 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
1013 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
1014 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
1015 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
1016 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
1017 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
1018 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
1020 o Major features (relay performance):
1021 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
1022 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
1023 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
1024 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
1025 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
1026 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
1027 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
1028 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
1029 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
1030 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
1032 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
1033 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
1034 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
1035 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
1036 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
1037 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
1038 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
1040 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
1041 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
1043 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
1044 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
1045 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
1046 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
1047 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
1048 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
1049 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1050 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
1051 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
1052 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
1053 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
1054 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
1055 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
1056 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
1057 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
1058 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
1059 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
1060 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
1061 Resolves ticket 11438.
1063 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
1064 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
1065 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
1066 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1068 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
1069 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
1070 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
1071 10267; patch from "yurivict".
1072 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
1073 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
1074 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
1075 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
1076 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
1077 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
1079 o Minor features (security):
1080 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
1081 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
1082 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
1083 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
1086 o Minor features (log verbosity):
1087 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
1088 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
1089 Resolves ticket 5286.
1090 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
1091 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
1092 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
1093 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
1094 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
1095 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
1096 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
1097 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
1098 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
1100 o Minor features (relay):
1101 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
1102 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
1103 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
1105 o Minor features (controller):
1106 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
1107 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
1109 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
1110 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
1111 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
1113 o Minor features (bridge client):
1114 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
1115 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
1116 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
1118 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1119 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
1120 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
1121 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
1122 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
1123 still referenced by a live node_t object.
1125 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
1126 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
1127 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
1128 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
1130 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
1131 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
1132 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
1133 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
1136 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
1137 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
1138 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1140 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
1141 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
1142 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
1143 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1144 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
1145 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
1146 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1148 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
1149 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
1150 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
1151 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1152 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
1153 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
1154 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1155 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
1156 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
1157 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
1158 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1159 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
1160 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
1163 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
1164 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
1165 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
1166 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
1167 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
1169 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
1170 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
1171 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
1174 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1175 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
1176 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1178 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1179 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
1180 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1183 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
1184 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
1185 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1187 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
1188 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
1189 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1190 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
1191 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
1193 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
1194 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
1195 early. Fixes bug 10081.
1197 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
1198 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
1199 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1200 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
1201 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1202 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
1203 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
1204 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
1206 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
1207 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
1208 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
1209 should never have affected anyone in practice.
1211 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
1212 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
1213 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1215 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
1216 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
1217 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
1218 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
1219 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
1220 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
1221 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
1222 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
1223 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
1224 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
1225 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
1226 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
1227 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
1228 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
1230 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
1231 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
1232 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
1233 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
1234 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
1235 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
1236 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
1237 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
1241 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
1242 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
1243 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
1244 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1245 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
1246 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1247 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
1248 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
1250 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
1252 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1253 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
1254 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
1255 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
1256 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
1259 o Deprecated versions:
1260 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
1261 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
1262 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
1263 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
1266 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
1267 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
1268 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
1269 Patch from Dana Koch.
1272 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
1273 Resolves ticket 11070.
1276 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
1277 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
1278 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
1279 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
1280 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
1283 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
1284 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
1286 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
1287 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
1288 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
1289 streams attached to each circuit.
1291 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
1292 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
1293 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
1294 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
1295 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
1296 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
1297 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
1298 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
1299 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
1300 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
1301 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
1302 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
1303 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
1305 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
1306 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
1307 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
1309 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
1310 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
1311 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
1312 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
1313 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
1314 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
1315 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
1316 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
1317 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
1319 o Minor features (other):
1320 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
1321 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
1322 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
1323 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
1324 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
1325 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
1326 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
1327 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
1328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1331 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
1332 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
1333 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
1334 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
1335 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
1336 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
1337 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
1338 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
1340 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1341 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
1342 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
1343 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
1344 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1345 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
1346 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
1347 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
1349 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
1350 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
1351 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
1352 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
1353 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
1354 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1355 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
1356 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
1357 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1358 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
1359 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
1360 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1362 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
1363 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
1364 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1365 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
1366 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
1367 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
1368 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
1369 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
1370 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1371 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
1372 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
1373 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
1374 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
1375 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
1377 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
1378 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
1380 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
1381 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
1382 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
1383 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
1384 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
1385 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
1386 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1387 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
1388 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
1389 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
1390 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
1391 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1392 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
1393 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
1395 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
1396 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
1397 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
1398 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
1401 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
1402 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
1403 the rest of bug 10841.
1406 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
1407 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
1408 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
1409 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
1410 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
1411 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
1412 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
1413 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
1414 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
1415 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
1416 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
1417 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1418 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
1419 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
1420 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
1422 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1423 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
1424 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
1426 o Test infrastructure:
1427 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
1428 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
1429 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
1430 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1433 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
1434 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
1435 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
1436 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
1438 o Major features (client security):
1439 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
1440 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
1441 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
1442 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
1443 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
1444 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
1447 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
1448 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
1449 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
1450 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1452 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1453 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
1454 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
1455 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
1456 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
1459 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
1460 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
1462 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
1463 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
1464 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
1465 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
1466 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
1467 GeoLite2 Country database.
1470 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
1471 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
1472 bugfix on every released Tor.
1473 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
1474 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
1475 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
1476 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1477 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
1478 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
1479 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
1480 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
1481 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
1482 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1483 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
1484 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
1485 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1486 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
1487 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1489 o Documentation fixes:
1490 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
1491 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1494 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
1495 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
1496 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
1497 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
1498 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
1499 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
1500 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
1501 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
1503 o Major features (client security):
1504 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
1505 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
1506 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
1507 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
1508 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
1509 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
1510 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
1511 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
1512 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
1513 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
1514 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
1515 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
1517 o Major features (bridges):
1518 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
1519 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
1520 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
1521 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
1522 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
1523 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
1524 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
1525 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
1528 o Major features (other):
1529 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
1530 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
1531 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
1532 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
1533 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
1534 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
1535 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
1536 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
1537 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
1538 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
1539 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
1540 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
1543 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
1544 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
1545 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1546 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
1547 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
1548 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
1549 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1551 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
1552 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
1553 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
1554 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
1555 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
1556 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
1557 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
1558 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
1559 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
1561 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
1562 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1563 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
1564 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
1565 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
1566 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
1568 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1569 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
1570 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
1571 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
1572 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
1573 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
1576 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
1577 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
1578 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
1579 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
1580 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
1581 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
1582 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
1584 o Minor features (security):
1585 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
1586 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
1589 o Minor features (config options and command line):
1590 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
1591 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
1592 Implements ticket 10060.
1593 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
1594 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
1595 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
1597 o Minor features (controller):
1598 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
1599 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
1600 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
1601 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
1602 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
1605 o Minor features (build):
1606 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
1607 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
1608 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
1609 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
1610 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
1611 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
1612 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
1614 o Minor features (testing):
1615 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
1616 the unit test scripts.
1617 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
1618 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
1619 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
1620 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
1622 o Minor features (log messages):
1623 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
1624 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
1625 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
1626 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
1627 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
1628 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
1629 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
1630 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
1631 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
1632 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1634 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1635 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
1636 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
1637 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
1638 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
1639 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
1640 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
1641 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
1642 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
1643 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1645 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
1646 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
1647 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
1648 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
1651 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1652 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
1653 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
1654 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
1655 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1657 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1658 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
1659 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
1660 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
1661 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
1662 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
1663 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
1665 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
1666 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
1667 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
1668 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
1669 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
1670 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
1671 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1673 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
1674 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
1675 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
1676 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1678 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
1679 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
1680 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
1681 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
1682 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
1683 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
1684 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
1685 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
1686 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
1687 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
1688 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1690 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1691 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
1692 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
1693 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
1694 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
1695 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
1696 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
1697 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
1698 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
1699 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
1701 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
1702 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
1703 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
1704 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
1707 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1708 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
1709 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
1710 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
1711 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
1712 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
1714 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
1715 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1717 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1718 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
1719 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
1720 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1722 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1723 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
1724 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
1725 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1726 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
1727 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
1728 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
1729 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1730 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
1731 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
1732 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
1733 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
1734 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
1735 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
1737 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
1738 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
1739 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1740 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
1741 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
1742 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
1744 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1745 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
1746 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1747 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
1748 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
1749 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
1750 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
1751 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
1752 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
1753 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1754 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
1755 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1757 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1758 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
1759 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
1760 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
1761 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
1762 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1763 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
1764 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
1765 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1766 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
1767 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
1768 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
1769 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
1770 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
1771 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
1772 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
1775 o Removed code and features:
1776 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
1777 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
1778 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
1779 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
1780 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
1781 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
1783 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
1784 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
1785 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
1786 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
1787 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
1788 part of a fix for bug 10841.
1790 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1791 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
1792 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
1793 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
1794 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
1795 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
1796 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
1797 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
1798 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
1799 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
1800 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
1803 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
1804 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
1805 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
1806 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
1807 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1809 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1810 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
1811 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
1812 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
1813 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
1814 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
1815 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
1818 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
1819 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
1820 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
1823 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
1824 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
1825 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
1826 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
1827 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
1828 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
1829 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
1831 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
1832 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
1835 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
1836 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
1837 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
1838 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
1839 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
1840 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
1841 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
1842 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
1844 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
1845 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1846 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
1847 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
1848 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
1849 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
1852 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
1853 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1854 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
1855 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
1856 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
1859 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
1860 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
1861 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
1862 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
1863 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
1864 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
1865 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
1866 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
1868 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
1869 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
1870 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
1871 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
1872 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
1873 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
1874 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
1875 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
1876 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
1877 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
1878 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
1879 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
1880 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
1881 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
1882 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
1883 security, and privacy fixes.
1886 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
1887 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
1888 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
1889 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
1892 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
1893 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
1894 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
1895 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
1896 them to solve bug 6033.)
1899 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
1900 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
1901 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
1902 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
1903 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
1904 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1905 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
1906 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
1908 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
1909 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
1910 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
1911 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1913 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
1914 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
1915 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1916 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
1917 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
1918 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
1919 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
1920 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
1921 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
1922 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1923 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
1924 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1926 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
1927 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
1928 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
1929 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
1930 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
1931 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1932 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
1933 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
1934 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1935 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
1936 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
1937 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
1938 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
1939 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
1940 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
1941 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
1944 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
1945 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
1946 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
1947 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
1948 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
1949 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
1950 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
1951 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
1952 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
1953 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
1954 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
1955 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
1956 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
1957 Implements part of proposal 222.
1959 o Minor features (other):
1960 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
1961 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
1962 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
1963 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
1964 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
1965 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
1966 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
1967 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
1968 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1970 o Documentation fixes:
1971 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
1972 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
1973 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
1974 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
1975 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
1976 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
1979 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
1980 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
1981 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
1982 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
1983 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
1984 release of the new branch.
1986 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
1987 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1988 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
1990 o Major features (security):
1991 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
1992 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
1993 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
1994 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
1995 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
1996 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
1997 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
1998 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
1999 Google Summer of Code.
2000 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
2001 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
2002 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
2003 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
2004 them to solve bug 6033.)
2006 o Major features (other):
2007 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
2008 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
2009 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
2010 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
2011 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
2013 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
2014 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
2015 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
2016 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
2017 Implements ticket 8530.
2018 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
2019 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
2022 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
2023 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
2024 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
2025 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
2026 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
2027 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2028 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
2029 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
2030 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2031 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
2032 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
2033 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
2034 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2037 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
2038 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
2039 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
2040 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
2041 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
2042 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
2043 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
2044 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
2045 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
2046 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
2050 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
2051 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
2052 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
2053 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
2054 invoking the other functions it calls.
2055 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
2056 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
2057 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
2058 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
2060 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
2061 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
2062 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
2063 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
2064 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
2065 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
2066 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
2067 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
2068 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
2069 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
2070 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
2071 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
2072 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
2073 Implements part of proposal 222.
2075 o Minor features (config options):
2076 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
2077 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
2078 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
2079 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
2080 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
2081 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
2082 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
2083 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
2084 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
2085 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
2086 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
2087 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
2088 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
2089 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
2090 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
2091 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
2092 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
2095 o Minor features (build):
2096 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
2097 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
2098 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
2099 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
2100 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
2103 o Minor features (other):
2104 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
2105 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
2106 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
2107 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
2108 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
2109 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
2110 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
2111 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
2112 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
2113 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
2114 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
2115 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
2117 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2120 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2121 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2122 bugfix on every released Tor.
2123 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
2124 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
2125 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
2126 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
2127 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
2128 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
2130 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
2131 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
2132 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
2133 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2134 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
2135 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
2136 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
2137 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
2140 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
2141 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
2142 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
2143 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
2145 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
2146 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2148 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
2149 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
2150 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
2152 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
2153 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
2154 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
2155 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
2156 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2158 o Minor code improvements:
2159 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
2160 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
2162 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
2163 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
2164 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
2165 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
2166 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
2169 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
2170 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
2171 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
2172 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
2174 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2175 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
2176 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
2177 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
2178 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
2179 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
2180 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
2181 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
2182 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
2183 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
2184 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
2185 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
2186 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
2187 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
2188 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
2189 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
2192 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
2193 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2194 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
2195 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
2196 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
2197 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
2198 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
2201 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
2202 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
2203 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
2204 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
2205 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
2206 Implements ticket 9574.
2209 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
2210 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
2211 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2212 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
2213 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
2214 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
2215 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
2216 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
2217 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2218 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
2219 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
2220 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
2224 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
2225 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
2226 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
2227 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
2229 o Minor fixes (config options):
2230 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
2231 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
2232 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
2233 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
2234 message is logged at notice, not at info.
2235 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
2236 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
2237 or we just won't work.)
2240 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
2241 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
2242 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
2243 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2246 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
2247 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2248 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
2251 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
2252 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
2253 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2254 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
2255 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2256 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
2257 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
2259 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
2260 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2261 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
2262 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
2265 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
2266 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
2267 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2268 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
2269 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
2270 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
2271 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
2272 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
2273 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
2274 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
2275 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2276 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
2277 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2280 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2283 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
2284 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
2285 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2286 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2289 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
2290 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
2291 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2294 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
2295 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
2296 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
2299 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
2300 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
2301 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2304 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
2305 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
2306 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
2307 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
2308 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
2309 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
2311 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
2312 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
2313 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
2314 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
2315 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
2316 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2318 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
2319 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
2320 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2323 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
2324 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
2325 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
2326 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
2327 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
2329 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
2330 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
2331 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
2332 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
2333 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
2334 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
2335 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
2337 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
2338 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
2339 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
2341 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
2342 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
2346 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
2347 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
2348 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
2350 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
2351 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
2352 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
2353 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
2354 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
2355 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
2357 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
2358 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
2359 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
2360 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
2361 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
2362 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
2363 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2366 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
2367 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
2368 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
2369 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
2370 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
2371 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
2372 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2373 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
2374 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2375 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
2376 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
2377 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2378 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
2379 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
2381 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
2382 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
2383 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
2384 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
2387 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2388 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
2389 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
2390 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
2391 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
2392 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
2394 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
2395 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
2399 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
2400 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
2401 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
2402 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
2403 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
2404 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
2405 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2407 o Removed documentation:
2408 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
2409 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
2411 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2412 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
2413 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
2414 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
2417 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
2418 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
2419 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
2420 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
2421 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
2422 variety of other issues.
2425 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
2426 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
2427 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
2428 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
2429 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
2430 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2431 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
2432 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
2434 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
2435 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
2436 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
2438 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
2439 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
2440 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
2441 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2442 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
2443 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
2444 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2446 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
2447 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
2448 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
2449 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
2450 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
2451 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
2452 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
2453 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2454 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
2455 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
2456 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
2457 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
2458 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2459 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
2460 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
2461 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
2462 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
2463 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
2464 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
2465 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
2466 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2468 o Major bugfixes (other):
2469 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
2470 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
2471 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
2472 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2475 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
2476 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
2477 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
2478 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
2480 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
2481 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
2483 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2485 o Minor features (build):
2486 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
2487 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
2489 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
2490 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
2492 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
2493 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
2494 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
2497 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2498 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
2499 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2500 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2501 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
2502 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
2503 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2504 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
2505 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
2506 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2507 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
2508 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
2509 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
2510 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
2513 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
2514 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
2515 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
2516 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
2517 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
2518 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
2519 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
2520 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
2521 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
2522 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
2523 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
2524 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
2525 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
2526 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2527 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2529 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2530 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
2531 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2532 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
2533 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
2534 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
2535 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
2536 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2537 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
2538 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
2539 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
2540 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
2541 Should help resolve bug 8235.
2542 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
2543 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
2544 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
2545 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2547 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
2548 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
2549 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
2550 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
2551 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
2552 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
2553 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
2554 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
2557 o Minor bugfixes (config):
2558 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
2559 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
2561 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
2562 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
2563 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2564 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
2565 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
2566 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
2567 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2568 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
2569 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
2570 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2571 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
2572 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
2573 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2574 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
2575 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
2578 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
2579 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
2580 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
2581 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
2582 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
2583 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
2584 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
2585 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
2587 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
2588 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
2589 or at least make it more diagnosable.
2590 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
2591 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
2592 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
2593 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2595 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
2596 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
2597 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
2598 the relaxed timeout log message.
2599 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
2600 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
2601 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
2603 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
2604 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
2605 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2606 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
2607 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2608 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
2609 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
2612 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
2613 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
2614 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
2615 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
2616 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2617 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
2618 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2619 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
2620 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2621 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
2622 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
2623 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
2624 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2625 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
2626 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
2627 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
2628 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2630 o Documentation fixes:
2631 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
2632 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
2633 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
2634 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
2635 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
2636 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
2637 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
2638 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
2641 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
2642 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
2646 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
2647 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
2648 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
2649 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
2651 o Major features (directory authorities):
2652 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
2653 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
2654 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
2655 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
2656 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
2657 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
2658 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
2659 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
2660 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
2661 Implements ticket 8151.
2663 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2664 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
2665 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
2666 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
2667 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
2669 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2670 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
2671 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
2672 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
2673 whether authentication information is present, causing all
2674 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
2675 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
2677 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
2678 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
2679 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
2681 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
2682 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
2683 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
2684 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
2685 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
2686 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
2687 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
2688 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
2689 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
2690 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
2691 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
2692 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
2693 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
2694 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
2695 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
2696 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
2697 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
2698 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
2701 o Minor features (portability):
2702 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
2703 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2704 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
2705 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
2706 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
2707 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
2708 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
2709 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2711 o Minor features (other):
2712 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
2713 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
2714 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
2715 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
2716 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
2717 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
2718 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
2719 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
2721 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2723 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2724 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
2725 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
2726 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
2727 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
2728 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2729 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
2730 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
2731 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
2732 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
2734 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
2735 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
2736 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
2737 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2739 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2740 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
2741 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
2742 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
2743 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
2744 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
2745 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
2747 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
2748 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
2749 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
2750 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
2751 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
2753 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
2754 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
2755 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
2756 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
2758 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2759 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
2760 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
2763 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
2764 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
2765 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2766 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
2768 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
2769 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2770 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
2771 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2773 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
2774 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
2775 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
2777 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
2778 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
2779 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
2780 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
2782 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
2783 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
2784 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2785 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
2786 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
2787 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
2788 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2790 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2791 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
2795 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
2796 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
2797 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
2798 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
2799 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
2802 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2803 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
2804 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
2805 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
2807 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
2808 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
2809 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
2813 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
2814 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
2815 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
2816 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
2817 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
2818 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
2819 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
2820 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
2821 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
2822 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2823 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
2824 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
2825 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
2828 o Major features (relay):
2829 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
2830 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
2831 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
2832 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
2833 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
2834 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
2835 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
2837 o Major features (portability):
2838 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
2839 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
2840 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
2841 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
2842 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2845 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
2846 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
2847 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
2848 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
2849 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
2850 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
2852 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
2853 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
2854 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
2855 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
2856 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
2857 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
2858 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
2859 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
2861 o Minor features (path selection):
2862 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
2863 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
2864 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
2865 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
2866 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
2867 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
2868 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
2869 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
2870 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
2871 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
2872 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
2873 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
2874 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
2875 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
2876 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
2877 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
2878 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
2879 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
2880 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
2882 o Minor features (log messages):
2883 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
2884 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
2885 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
2886 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
2889 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
2890 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
2891 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2892 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
2893 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
2894 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
2895 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
2896 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
2897 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
2898 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2899 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
2900 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2902 o Build improvements:
2903 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
2904 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
2905 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
2906 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
2907 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
2908 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
2909 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
2910 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
2911 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
2912 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
2913 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
2914 than to perform erroneously.
2917 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
2918 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
2919 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
2921 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
2922 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
2923 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
2926 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2927 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
2929 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
2930 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
2934 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
2935 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
2939 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
2940 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
2941 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
2945 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
2946 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
2947 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
2948 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
2951 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
2952 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
2953 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
2954 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
2955 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
2956 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
2957 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
2958 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
2959 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
2960 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
2961 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
2964 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
2965 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
2966 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
2967 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
2968 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
2969 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
2970 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
2971 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
2972 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
2973 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
2974 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
2976 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
2977 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
2978 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
2980 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
2981 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
2982 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
2984 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
2986 o Major features (better link encryption):
2987 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
2988 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
2989 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
2990 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
2991 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
2992 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
2995 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
2996 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
2997 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
2998 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
2999 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
3000 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
3001 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
3003 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
3004 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
3005 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
3006 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
3008 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
3011 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
3012 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
3013 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3016 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
3017 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
3018 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
3019 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
3020 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
3021 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
3022 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
3023 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3024 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3026 o Minor features (testing):
3027 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
3028 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
3029 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
3031 o Minor features (path bias detection):
3032 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
3033 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
3034 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
3035 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
3036 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
3037 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
3038 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
3039 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
3040 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
3041 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
3042 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
3043 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
3044 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
3045 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
3046 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
3047 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
3048 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
3049 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
3050 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
3051 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
3052 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
3053 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
3054 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
3055 detection capability loss.
3057 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3058 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
3059 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
3060 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
3061 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3062 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
3063 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
3064 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
3067 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3068 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
3069 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
3070 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
3071 and the different handshakes it supports.
3072 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
3073 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
3074 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
3075 any encoding is overkill.
3078 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
3079 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
3080 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
3081 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
3082 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
3083 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
3084 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
3085 and fixes a variety of other issues.
3087 o Major features (client resilience):
3088 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
3089 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
3090 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
3091 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
3092 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
3093 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
3094 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
3095 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
3096 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
3097 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
3098 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
3099 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
3100 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
3101 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
3102 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
3104 o Major features (IPv6):
3105 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
3106 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
3107 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
3108 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
3109 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
3110 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
3111 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
3112 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
3114 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
3115 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
3117 o Major features (geoip database):
3118 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
3119 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
3120 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
3121 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
3122 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
3123 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
3124 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
3125 Country database, as modified above.
3127 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
3128 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
3129 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
3130 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
3131 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
3132 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
3133 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
3134 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
3135 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
3136 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
3137 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
3138 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
3139 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
3140 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
3141 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
3142 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
3143 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
3146 o Major bugfixes (other):
3147 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
3148 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
3149 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
3150 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
3151 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
3152 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
3153 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
3154 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
3156 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
3157 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
3160 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
3161 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
3162 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
3163 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
3164 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
3165 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
3166 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
3167 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
3169 o Minor features (IPv6):
3170 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
3171 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
3172 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
3173 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
3174 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
3175 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
3176 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
3177 connect to the wrong addresses.
3178 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
3179 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
3180 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
3181 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
3185 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
3186 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
3187 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
3189 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
3190 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
3191 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
3193 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
3194 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
3195 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
3198 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
3199 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
3201 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3202 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
3203 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
3204 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
3205 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
3208 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
3209 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
3210 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
3211 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
3212 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
3213 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
3214 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
3215 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
3217 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
3218 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
3219 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
3220 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
3221 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
3222 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
3223 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
3224 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
3225 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
3226 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
3227 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
3230 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
3231 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
3232 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
3233 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
3234 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
3235 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
3236 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
3237 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
3238 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
3239 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
3242 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
3243 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
3247 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
3248 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
3249 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
3250 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
3253 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
3254 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
3256 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
3257 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
3258 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
3259 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
3260 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
3261 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
3262 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
3263 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
3264 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
3265 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
3268 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
3270 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
3271 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
3272 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
3273 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
3274 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
3277 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
3278 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
3279 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3280 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
3281 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
3283 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
3284 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3285 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
3286 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
3287 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
3288 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
3289 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
3291 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
3292 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3293 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
3294 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
3295 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
3296 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3297 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
3298 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3300 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3301 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
3302 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
3303 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
3304 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
3305 present the same extensions.)
3308 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
3309 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
3310 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
3311 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
3312 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
3314 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
3315 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
3316 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
3317 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
3319 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
3320 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
3321 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
3322 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3324 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
3325 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
3326 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
3327 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
3328 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
3329 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
3330 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
3331 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
3332 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3334 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
3335 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
3336 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
3337 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
3338 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3341 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
3342 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
3343 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
3345 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3346 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
3348 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
3349 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
3353 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
3354 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
3355 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
3356 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
3359 o Major bugfixes (security):
3360 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
3361 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
3362 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
3364 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
3365 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
3366 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
3367 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3370 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
3371 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
3372 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
3373 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
3374 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
3375 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
3376 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
3377 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3380 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
3381 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
3382 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
3383 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3386 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
3387 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
3388 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
3389 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
3390 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
3391 scheduling algorithms.
3393 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
3394 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
3395 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
3397 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
3398 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
3399 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
3400 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
3401 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
3402 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
3403 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
3404 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
3405 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
3406 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
3407 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
3409 o Internal abstraction features:
3410 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
3411 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
3412 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
3413 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
3414 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
3415 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
3416 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
3417 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
3418 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
3419 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
3420 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
3421 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
3422 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
3423 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
3424 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
3425 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
3426 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
3428 o Required libraries:
3429 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
3430 strongly recommended.
3433 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
3434 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
3435 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
3436 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
3437 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
3438 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
3439 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
3440 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
3441 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
3443 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
3444 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
3445 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
3446 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
3447 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
3448 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
3449 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
3450 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3451 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
3452 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
3453 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
3454 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
3455 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
3456 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
3457 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3460 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
3461 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
3462 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
3463 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
3464 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
3465 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
3466 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
3467 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
3468 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
3469 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
3470 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
3471 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
3472 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
3473 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
3474 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3475 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
3476 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
3477 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
3478 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
3480 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
3481 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
3482 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
3483 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
3484 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
3485 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
3486 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
3489 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
3490 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
3491 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
3492 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
3494 o New directory authorities:
3495 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
3496 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
3498 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
3499 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
3500 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
3501 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
3502 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
3503 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
3504 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
3505 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
3506 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
3507 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
3508 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
3511 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
3512 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
3513 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
3515 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3516 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
3517 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
3518 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3519 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
3520 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
3521 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3522 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
3523 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
3525 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3526 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
3527 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
3528 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
3529 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
3530 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
3531 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
3532 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
3533 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
3534 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
3535 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
3536 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
3537 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3538 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
3539 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
3540 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
3541 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
3542 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
3544 o Documentation fixes:
3545 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
3548 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
3549 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
3550 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
3551 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
3554 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3555 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3556 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3559 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
3560 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
3561 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
3562 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
3563 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
3564 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
3565 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
3566 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3568 o Security features:
3569 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
3570 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
3571 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
3572 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
3573 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
3574 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
3575 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
3576 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
3577 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
3581 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
3582 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
3583 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
3586 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
3587 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
3588 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3589 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
3590 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3591 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
3592 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
3593 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
3594 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
3595 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
3596 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3597 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
3598 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
3599 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
3601 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
3602 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3603 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
3604 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
3605 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3607 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
3608 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
3609 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
3610 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3611 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
3612 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
3613 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3614 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
3615 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
3616 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
3617 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
3618 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
3619 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
3620 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3621 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
3622 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
3623 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3624 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
3625 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
3626 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
3628 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3629 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
3630 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
3631 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
3632 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
3633 testable, and a little less fragile too.
3634 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
3635 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3637 o Documentation fixes:
3638 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
3639 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
3643 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
3644 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
3648 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3649 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3650 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3653 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
3654 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
3658 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
3659 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
3663 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3664 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3665 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3666 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
3667 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
3668 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
3669 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
3673 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
3674 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
3675 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
3676 log messages less noisy.
3679 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
3680 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
3684 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
3685 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
3686 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
3687 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
3688 last time we raised it).
3691 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
3692 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
3694 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
3695 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
3696 part of ticket 6736.
3697 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
3698 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
3699 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
3703 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
3704 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
3705 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3706 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
3707 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
3709 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
3710 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3711 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
3712 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
3713 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3714 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
3715 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
3716 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3717 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
3718 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3719 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
3720 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3723 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
3724 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
3725 bunch of compatibility code.
3728 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
3729 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
3730 the ORPort and the DirPort.
3733 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
3734 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
3735 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
3736 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
3738 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
3739 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3740 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
3742 o Major features (bridges):
3743 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
3744 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
3745 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
3748 o Major features (IPv6):
3749 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
3750 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
3751 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
3752 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
3753 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
3754 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
3755 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
3756 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
3757 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
3759 o Major features (build):
3760 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
3761 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
3762 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
3763 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
3764 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
3765 fixes by Jim Meyering.
3766 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
3767 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
3768 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
3770 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
3771 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
3772 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
3773 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
3774 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
3775 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
3776 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
3777 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
3778 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
3779 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
3780 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
3782 o Minor features (streamlining);
3783 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
3784 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
3786 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
3787 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
3788 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
3789 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
3790 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
3791 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3793 o Minor features (controller):
3794 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
3796 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
3797 Implements ticket 4971.
3799 o Minor features (IPv6):
3800 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
3801 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
3802 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
3803 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
3804 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
3806 o Minor features (log messages):
3807 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
3808 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
3809 Resolves ticket 6758.
3810 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
3811 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
3812 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
3813 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3814 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
3815 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
3816 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
3818 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
3819 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
3820 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
3821 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
3822 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
3825 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3826 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
3827 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
3828 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
3829 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
3831 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
3832 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
3833 Implements ticket 5529.
3834 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
3835 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
3836 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
3837 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
3838 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
3839 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
3840 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
3841 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
3842 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
3843 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
3846 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
3847 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
3848 from a source distribution.)
3851 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
3852 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3853 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
3854 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
3855 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
3856 and cleans up other smaller issues.
3858 o Major bugfixes (security):
3859 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
3860 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
3861 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
3862 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
3863 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
3864 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
3865 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
3866 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
3867 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
3868 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
3869 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
3870 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3871 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
3872 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
3873 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
3874 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
3878 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
3879 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
3880 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
3881 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3882 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
3883 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
3884 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
3885 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
3886 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
3887 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3890 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
3891 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
3892 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
3893 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
3894 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3895 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
3896 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
3897 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
3898 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
3899 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
3900 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
3902 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
3903 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
3904 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
3906 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
3907 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
3908 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
3909 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
3910 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3911 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
3912 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
3913 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
3914 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3915 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
3916 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3917 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
3918 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
3919 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
3922 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3923 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
3924 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
3925 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
3926 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3927 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
3928 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
3929 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
3930 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
3931 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
3932 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
3933 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
3934 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
3935 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
3936 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3939 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
3940 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
3941 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
3942 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
3943 Resolves ticket 6732.
3946 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
3947 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
3948 attack that could in theory leak path information.
3951 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
3952 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
3953 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3954 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
3955 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
3956 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
3957 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
3958 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
3959 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
3960 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
3961 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
3962 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
3963 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
3964 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3967 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
3968 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3969 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
3970 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
3973 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
3974 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
3975 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3976 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
3977 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
3978 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3979 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
3980 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
3981 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
3982 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
3983 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
3984 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
3985 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
3986 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
3987 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
3988 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
3989 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3992 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
3993 a little more useful.
3994 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
3995 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3996 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
3997 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
3998 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
3999 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
4000 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
4003 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
4004 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4005 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
4006 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4007 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
4008 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
4012 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
4013 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
4014 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
4015 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
4016 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
4019 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
4020 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
4021 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
4024 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
4026 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
4028 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4029 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
4030 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
4031 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
4032 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
4035 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
4036 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4037 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
4038 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
4039 since the beginning of Tor.
4042 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
4043 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
4044 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
4045 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
4046 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
4047 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
4048 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
4049 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4050 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
4051 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4054 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
4055 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4058 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
4059 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
4060 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4061 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4064 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
4065 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4066 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
4067 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
4068 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
4069 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4071 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4072 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
4073 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
4074 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
4075 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
4076 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
4077 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4078 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
4079 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
4080 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
4081 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
4082 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
4083 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
4084 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4085 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
4086 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
4087 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4088 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
4089 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4091 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4092 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
4093 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
4095 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
4096 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4097 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
4098 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
4100 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
4101 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4102 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
4103 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4104 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
4105 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
4106 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4107 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
4108 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4109 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
4110 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4111 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
4112 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
4113 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4114 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
4115 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
4118 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
4119 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
4120 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
4121 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
4122 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
4125 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
4126 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
4127 options. Closes bug 4748.
4130 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
4131 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
4132 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
4133 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
4134 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
4138 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
4139 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
4141 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
4142 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
4143 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
4144 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
4145 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
4146 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
4147 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
4148 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
4149 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
4152 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
4153 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
4154 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
4155 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
4156 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
4157 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
4158 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
4159 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
4162 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
4163 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
4164 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
4165 case for flushing marked connections.
4166 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
4167 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4168 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
4169 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
4170 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
4171 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
4172 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4173 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
4174 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4175 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
4176 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
4177 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
4178 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4179 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
4180 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
4181 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
4182 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4183 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
4184 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4185 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
4186 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
4187 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
4188 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4189 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
4190 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
4192 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
4193 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4194 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
4198 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
4199 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
4200 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
4201 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
4202 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
4203 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
4204 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
4205 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
4206 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
4207 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
4208 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
4209 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
4210 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
4211 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
4212 Addresses ticket 5458.
4213 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4215 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4216 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
4217 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
4220 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
4221 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
4222 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
4226 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
4227 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
4228 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
4229 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
4230 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
4231 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
4232 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4233 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
4234 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
4235 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
4236 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4239 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
4240 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4243 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
4244 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
4247 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
4248 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
4249 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
4250 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
4251 that get us closer to a release candidate.
4253 o Major bugfixes (general):
4254 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
4255 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
4256 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
4257 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
4258 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
4259 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
4260 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4261 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
4262 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
4264 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
4265 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
4266 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
4267 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
4270 o Major bugfixes (clients):
4271 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
4272 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
4273 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
4274 which introduced predicted ports.
4275 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
4276 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
4277 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
4278 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4279 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
4280 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
4281 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
4282 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
4283 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
4284 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
4285 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4286 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
4287 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
4289 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
4290 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
4291 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
4292 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
4293 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
4294 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
4295 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
4296 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
4297 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
4298 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
4299 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
4303 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
4304 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
4305 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
4306 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
4307 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
4308 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
4309 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
4310 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
4311 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
4312 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
4313 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
4314 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
4315 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
4316 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
4318 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
4319 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
4320 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
4321 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
4322 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
4323 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
4324 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
4325 sure. Closes bug 5139.
4326 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
4327 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
4328 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
4329 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
4330 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
4331 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
4332 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4334 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
4335 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
4336 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
4337 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
4338 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
4339 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
4340 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
4341 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
4342 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
4343 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
4344 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
4345 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
4346 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
4347 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
4348 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
4349 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
4350 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
4351 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4352 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
4353 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
4355 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4356 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
4357 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
4358 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
4359 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
4360 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
4361 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
4362 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
4363 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
4364 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
4365 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
4366 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
4367 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
4369 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
4370 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4371 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
4372 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
4374 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
4375 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
4376 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4377 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
4378 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
4379 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4380 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
4381 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4382 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
4383 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
4385 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
4386 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
4387 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
4389 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4390 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
4391 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
4392 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
4393 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
4394 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
4395 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
4396 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
4397 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4398 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
4399 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
4400 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4401 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
4402 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
4403 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
4404 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4405 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
4406 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
4407 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
4408 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
4410 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
4411 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
4412 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4413 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
4414 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
4415 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
4417 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
4418 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
4419 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
4421 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
4422 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
4423 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
4424 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4425 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
4426 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4428 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4429 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
4430 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
4432 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
4433 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
4434 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4435 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
4436 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
4437 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4438 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
4439 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
4440 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
4441 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4442 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
4443 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
4444 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
4445 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
4446 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
4447 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
4449 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
4450 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
4451 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4452 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
4453 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
4454 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4455 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
4456 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4457 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
4458 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4459 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
4460 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
4461 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
4464 o Documentation fixes:
4465 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
4466 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
4467 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
4468 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
4469 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
4470 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
4473 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
4474 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
4478 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
4479 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
4480 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
4481 and fixes several crash bugs.
4483 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
4484 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
4485 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
4486 those packages and upgrade anyway.
4488 o Directory authority changes:
4489 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
4490 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
4494 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
4495 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
4496 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
4497 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
4498 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
4499 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
4500 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
4501 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
4502 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
4503 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
4504 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
4505 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
4506 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
4507 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
4508 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
4509 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
4510 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
4511 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
4512 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
4513 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
4514 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
4515 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
4516 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
4517 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
4518 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
4519 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
4520 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
4523 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
4524 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4525 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
4526 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
4528 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
4529 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
4531 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
4532 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
4533 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
4534 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
4535 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
4536 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
4537 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
4538 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
4541 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
4542 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
4543 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
4544 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
4545 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
4546 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
4547 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
4548 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
4549 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
4550 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
4551 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
4552 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
4553 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
4554 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
4555 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
4556 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
4557 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
4558 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
4559 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
4560 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
4561 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
4562 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
4563 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
4564 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
4565 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
4566 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
4567 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
4568 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
4569 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
4570 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
4571 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
4572 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
4573 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4574 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
4575 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4576 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
4577 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
4578 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
4579 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
4580 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4581 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
4582 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4583 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
4584 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
4585 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
4586 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4588 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
4589 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
4590 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
4591 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
4592 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
4593 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
4594 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
4595 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
4596 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
4597 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
4598 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4599 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
4600 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4601 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
4602 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
4605 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
4606 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
4607 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
4608 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
4610 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4613 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
4614 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
4615 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
4616 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
4617 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
4618 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
4619 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
4622 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
4623 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
4624 the development branch build on Windows again.
4626 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4627 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
4628 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
4629 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
4630 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
4631 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
4632 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
4633 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
4634 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4635 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
4636 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
4637 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
4638 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4639 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
4640 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
4642 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4643 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
4644 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
4645 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4646 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
4648 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
4649 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
4650 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
4651 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
4652 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
4653 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4656 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
4657 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
4658 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
4659 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
4660 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
4661 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
4662 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
4663 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
4664 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
4667 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
4668 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
4669 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
4670 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
4674 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
4675 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
4676 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
4677 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
4679 o Directory authority changes:
4680 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
4684 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
4685 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4686 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
4687 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
4689 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
4690 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
4691 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
4692 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
4694 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
4695 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
4696 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4698 o Major features (performance):
4699 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
4700 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
4701 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
4702 much faster than other AES implementations.
4704 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
4705 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
4706 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
4707 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
4708 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
4709 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
4710 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
4711 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
4712 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
4713 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
4714 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
4715 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
4716 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
4717 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
4718 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4719 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
4720 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
4721 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
4723 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
4724 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
4725 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
4726 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4727 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
4728 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4729 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
4730 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
4731 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
4733 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
4734 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
4735 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4736 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
4737 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
4738 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4741 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
4742 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
4743 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
4744 please let us know about it.
4745 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
4746 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
4747 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
4748 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
4749 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4750 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4751 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
4752 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
4754 o Default torrc changes:
4755 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
4756 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
4758 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
4759 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
4760 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
4764 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
4765 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
4766 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
4767 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
4770 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
4771 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
4772 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
4773 it would be a bad idea to start.
4776 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
4777 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
4778 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
4779 that get us closer to a release candidate.
4781 o Directory authority changes:
4782 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
4785 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
4786 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
4787 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
4788 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
4789 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
4790 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
4791 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
4792 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
4793 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
4794 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
4795 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
4796 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
4797 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
4798 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
4799 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
4800 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
4802 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
4803 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
4804 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
4805 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
4806 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
4807 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4808 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
4809 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
4810 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4811 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
4812 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
4813 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
4815 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
4816 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
4817 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4818 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
4819 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
4821 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4822 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
4823 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
4824 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
4825 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
4826 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
4827 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
4828 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
4829 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
4830 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
4831 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
4832 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
4833 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4834 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
4835 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4836 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
4837 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
4838 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
4839 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
4840 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
4841 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
4842 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
4845 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4846 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
4847 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4848 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
4849 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
4850 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
4851 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
4852 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
4853 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4854 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
4855 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
4856 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
4857 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
4858 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
4859 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
4860 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
4861 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
4864 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
4865 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
4866 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4869 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
4870 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
4871 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
4872 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
4875 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
4876 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
4878 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
4879 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
4880 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
4881 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4882 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
4883 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
4884 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
4885 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4886 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
4887 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
4888 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
4889 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4892 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
4893 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
4894 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
4895 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
4896 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
4897 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
4898 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4901 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
4902 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
4903 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
4904 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4905 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
4906 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
4907 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
4908 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
4909 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
4910 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
4912 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
4913 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
4914 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
4915 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
4916 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4917 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
4918 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
4919 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
4920 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
4923 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4924 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
4925 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
4929 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
4930 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
4931 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
4932 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
4933 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
4934 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
4937 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
4938 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
4939 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
4940 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
4941 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
4942 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
4943 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
4944 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
4946 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
4947 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
4948 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
4949 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
4950 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
4951 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
4952 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
4953 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
4955 o Major security workaround:
4956 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
4957 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
4958 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
4959 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
4960 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
4961 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
4962 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
4963 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
4964 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
4965 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
4966 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
4969 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
4970 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
4971 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
4972 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
4973 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
4974 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
4975 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
4976 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4977 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
4978 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
4979 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
4980 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
4981 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
4983 o Minor features (controller):
4984 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
4985 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
4986 file. Resolves bug 1101.
4987 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
4988 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
4989 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
4990 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
4991 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
4992 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
4994 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
4995 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
4996 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
4997 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
4998 part of ticket 3457.
4999 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
5000 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
5001 circuit-status' control-port command.
5003 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5004 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5005 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5006 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5007 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5009 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
5010 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
5011 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
5012 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
5013 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
5014 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
5015 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
5017 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5018 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5020 o Minor features (other):
5021 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
5022 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
5023 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
5024 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
5025 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
5026 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
5027 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
5028 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
5030 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
5031 them from the other auths.
5032 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
5033 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
5034 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
5035 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
5037 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5039 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5040 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
5041 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
5042 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
5043 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
5044 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
5045 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
5046 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
5047 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
5048 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
5049 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5050 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
5051 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
5052 be disabled using the new
5053 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
5054 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5055 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
5056 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
5057 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
5058 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
5059 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
5060 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
5061 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
5062 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
5063 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
5064 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
5066 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
5067 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
5068 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
5071 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5072 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5073 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
5075 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5076 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5077 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
5078 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
5079 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5080 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
5081 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
5084 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5085 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5086 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5087 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
5088 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
5089 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
5090 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
5092 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
5093 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
5094 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5095 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
5096 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
5097 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
5098 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
5099 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
5100 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
5103 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5104 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5105 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5106 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5107 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5108 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5109 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5110 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5111 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5112 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
5113 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
5114 accidentally been reverted.
5115 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
5116 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
5117 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
5118 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
5119 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
5120 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
5121 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5122 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
5123 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
5124 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5125 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
5126 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
5127 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
5128 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
5129 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5130 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
5131 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5132 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
5133 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5136 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5137 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5138 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5139 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5140 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5141 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5142 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5144 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5145 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
5146 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
5147 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
5148 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
5149 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
5150 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
5152 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
5153 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
5154 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
5155 invalid value, rather than just -1.
5156 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
5157 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
5158 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
5159 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
5160 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
5161 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
5162 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
5166 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
5167 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
5168 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
5170 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
5171 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
5172 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
5173 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
5174 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
5175 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
5176 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
5177 (which Tor does not do by default).
5179 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
5180 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
5181 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
5182 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
5183 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
5185 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
5189 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5190 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5191 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5192 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5195 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
5196 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
5197 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
5198 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
5199 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
5200 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
5201 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
5202 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
5203 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5204 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
5205 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5208 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5211 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
5212 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
5213 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
5215 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
5216 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
5217 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
5218 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
5219 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
5220 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
5221 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
5222 (which Tor does not do by default).
5224 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
5225 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
5226 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
5227 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
5228 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
5230 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
5231 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
5232 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
5235 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
5236 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
5237 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
5238 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
5239 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
5241 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
5242 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
5245 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5246 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5247 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5248 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5249 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
5250 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
5251 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
5252 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
5254 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
5255 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
5256 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
5257 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
5258 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
5259 close based on processing a cell on it.
5260 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
5261 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
5262 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
5263 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5264 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
5265 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
5266 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5267 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
5268 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
5269 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
5270 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
5271 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
5272 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
5273 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
5274 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
5277 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
5278 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
5279 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
5280 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
5281 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
5282 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
5283 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
5285 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
5286 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
5287 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
5288 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
5289 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
5290 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5291 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
5292 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
5293 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5294 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
5295 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
5296 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
5297 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
5298 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5299 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
5300 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
5301 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
5302 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
5303 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5304 Reported by "troll_un".
5305 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
5306 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5307 Reported by "troll_un".
5308 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5309 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
5310 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
5311 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
5314 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
5315 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
5316 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
5317 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
5318 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
5319 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
5320 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
5321 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
5322 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
5323 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
5324 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5326 o Packaging changes:
5327 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
5328 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
5331 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
5332 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
5333 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
5334 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
5335 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
5337 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
5338 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
5340 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5341 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
5342 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
5343 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
5344 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5345 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
5346 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
5347 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
5348 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
5351 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5354 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
5355 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
5356 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
5357 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
5358 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
5359 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
5360 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
5363 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
5364 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
5365 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
5366 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
5367 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
5368 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
5369 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
5370 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
5371 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
5372 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
5373 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
5374 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
5375 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
5376 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
5377 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
5378 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
5379 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
5380 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
5381 Resolves ticket 4526.
5382 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
5383 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
5384 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
5385 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
5386 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
5387 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
5388 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
5389 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
5390 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
5391 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
5392 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
5393 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
5394 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
5395 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
5396 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
5397 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
5400 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
5401 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
5402 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
5403 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
5404 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
5405 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
5406 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
5407 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
5408 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
5409 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5411 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
5412 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
5413 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
5414 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
5415 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
5416 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
5417 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
5418 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
5419 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
5421 o Minor features (new/different config options):
5422 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
5423 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
5424 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
5425 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
5426 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
5427 Implements issue 933.
5428 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
5429 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
5430 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
5431 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
5432 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
5433 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
5434 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
5435 appending to the list.
5436 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
5437 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
5438 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
5439 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
5441 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
5442 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
5443 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
5444 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
5445 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
5446 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
5447 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
5448 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
5451 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
5452 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
5453 Resolves ticket 2474.
5454 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
5455 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
5456 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
5457 Required by fix for bug 3460.
5458 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
5459 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
5460 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
5461 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
5462 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
5463 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
5464 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
5465 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
5466 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
5468 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5469 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
5470 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
5472 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
5474 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
5475 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
5477 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
5478 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
5479 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
5480 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
5481 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
5482 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
5483 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
5485 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
5486 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
5487 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5488 Reported by "troll_un".
5489 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
5490 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5491 Reported by "troll_un".
5492 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
5493 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
5494 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
5495 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
5497 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
5498 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
5500 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
5501 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
5502 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
5503 with help from wanoskarnet.
5504 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
5505 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5508 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
5509 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
5510 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
5511 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5513 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
5514 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
5515 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
5516 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
5517 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
5518 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
5519 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
5520 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
5523 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
5524 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
5525 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
5526 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
5527 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
5528 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
5529 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
5530 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
5531 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
5534 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
5535 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
5536 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
5537 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
5539 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
5540 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
5541 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
5542 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5543 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
5544 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
5545 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
5546 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
5547 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
5548 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
5549 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
5550 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
5551 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
5552 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
5553 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
5554 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
5555 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
5556 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
5557 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
5558 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
5559 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
5560 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
5561 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
5562 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
5565 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
5566 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
5567 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
5568 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
5569 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
5570 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5571 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
5572 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
5575 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5576 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
5577 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
5578 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
5579 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
5580 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
5581 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
5582 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
5583 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
5584 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
5585 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
5586 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
5587 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
5588 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
5589 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
5591 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
5592 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
5593 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
5594 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
5595 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5596 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
5597 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
5598 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5599 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
5600 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
5601 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
5602 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
5603 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
5604 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5605 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
5606 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
5607 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5609 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5610 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
5611 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
5612 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
5613 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5615 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
5616 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
5617 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
5619 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
5620 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
5621 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
5623 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
5624 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
5626 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
5627 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5630 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
5631 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
5632 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
5633 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
5634 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
5635 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
5636 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
5637 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
5638 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
5639 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
5640 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
5641 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
5642 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
5643 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
5645 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
5646 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
5647 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5649 o Packaging changes:
5650 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
5651 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
5653 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5654 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
5655 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
5656 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
5657 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
5658 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
5659 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
5660 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
5661 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
5664 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
5666 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
5667 ./src/test/bench binary.
5668 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
5669 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
5672 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
5673 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
5674 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
5678 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
5679 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
5680 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
5681 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
5682 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
5683 close based on processing a cell on it.
5684 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
5685 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
5686 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5687 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
5688 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
5689 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
5690 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
5691 cells were introduced.
5694 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
5695 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
5698 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
5699 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
5700 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
5701 users. Everybody should upgrade.
5703 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
5704 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
5707 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
5708 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
5709 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
5710 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
5711 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
5712 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
5714 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
5715 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5716 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5717 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5718 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5719 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5720 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5721 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5722 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5723 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5724 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5725 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
5726 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
5727 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
5728 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
5729 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
5730 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
5731 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
5734 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5735 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
5736 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
5737 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
5738 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
5739 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
5740 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
5741 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
5742 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
5743 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
5744 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
5745 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
5746 Partly fixes bug 3825.
5747 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
5748 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
5749 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
5750 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
5751 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
5752 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
5753 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
5755 o Major bugfixes (other):
5756 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5757 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5758 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5759 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5760 Found by "frosty_un".
5761 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
5762 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
5763 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
5764 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
5765 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
5766 immensely in tracking this bug down.
5767 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
5768 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
5771 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5772 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
5773 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
5774 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
5775 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
5776 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
5777 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
5778 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
5779 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
5780 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
5781 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
5782 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
5783 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
5784 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5785 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
5786 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
5787 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
5788 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
5789 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
5790 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
5791 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
5793 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5794 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
5795 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
5796 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5797 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
5798 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
5799 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
5800 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
5801 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
5802 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
5803 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
5806 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
5807 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
5808 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
5809 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
5810 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
5811 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
5812 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
5813 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
5814 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
5815 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
5816 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
5817 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
5818 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
5819 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5821 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5822 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
5823 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
5824 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
5825 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
5826 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
5827 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
5828 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
5831 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
5832 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
5833 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
5835 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
5836 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
5837 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
5838 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
5839 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
5840 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
5841 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
5842 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
5843 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
5844 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
5845 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
5846 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
5847 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
5849 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
5850 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
5851 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
5852 currently connected to them.
5854 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
5855 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
5856 remain; see for example proposal 188.
5858 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
5859 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5860 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5861 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5862 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5863 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5864 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5865 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5866 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5867 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5868 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5869 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
5870 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
5871 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
5872 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
5873 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
5874 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
5875 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
5878 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
5879 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
5880 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
5881 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
5882 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
5883 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
5884 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
5885 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5886 when bridges were introduced.
5887 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5888 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5889 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5890 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5891 Found by "frosty_un".
5894 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
5895 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
5897 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
5898 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
5899 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
5900 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
5901 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
5902 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
5903 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
5906 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
5907 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
5908 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
5909 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
5910 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
5911 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
5912 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
5913 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
5914 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
5915 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
5916 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
5917 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
5918 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
5919 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
5920 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
5921 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
5922 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
5923 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
5926 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
5927 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
5928 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5929 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
5930 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
5931 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
5932 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
5933 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
5934 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
5935 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
5936 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5939 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5940 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5941 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
5942 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5945 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
5946 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
5947 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
5948 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
5949 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
5951 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5952 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
5953 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
5954 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
5955 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
5956 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
5957 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
5958 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5959 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5960 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5962 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5963 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5964 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5965 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5966 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5967 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5968 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5969 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5970 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5971 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5972 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5973 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5974 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5975 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5976 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5977 Found by "frosty_un".
5978 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
5979 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
5980 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
5981 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
5982 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
5983 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5984 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5985 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5986 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5987 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5988 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5989 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5990 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5991 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
5992 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
5993 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
5994 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
5995 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
5996 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
5998 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5999 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
6000 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
6001 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
6002 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
6003 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
6004 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
6005 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
6007 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6008 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
6009 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6010 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6011 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
6012 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
6013 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
6014 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
6015 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
6016 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
6017 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
6018 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
6020 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6021 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6022 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
6023 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6024 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
6025 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6026 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6027 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6028 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6030 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6032 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
6033 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
6034 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
6035 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6036 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
6037 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
6038 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
6039 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6041 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
6042 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
6043 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
6044 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
6045 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
6047 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6048 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6049 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6050 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
6051 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6054 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
6055 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
6056 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
6057 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
6058 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
6061 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6062 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6063 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6064 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6065 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6066 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6067 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6068 when bridges were introduced.
6071 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
6072 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
6073 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6075 o Major features (networking):
6076 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
6077 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
6078 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
6079 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
6080 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
6084 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6085 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6086 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6088 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6089 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6090 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6091 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6092 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6094 o Minor features (diagnostics):
6095 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
6096 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
6099 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
6100 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
6101 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
6102 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
6103 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
6104 listed in the network consensus and republish.
6106 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6107 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6108 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6109 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6111 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
6112 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
6113 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
6114 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
6115 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
6116 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
6117 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
6118 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
6119 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
6120 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
6121 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6123 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6124 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6125 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6126 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6127 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6128 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6129 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6130 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
6131 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
6132 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6134 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6135 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
6136 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
6137 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
6138 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
6139 fixes part of bug 2442.
6140 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
6141 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
6142 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
6144 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
6145 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
6146 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
6147 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
6148 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6150 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
6151 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
6152 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
6153 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
6154 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
6157 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
6158 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
6159 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
6163 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
6164 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
6165 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
6166 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
6167 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
6168 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
6169 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
6172 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
6173 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
6174 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
6175 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
6176 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
6177 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
6178 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
6181 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
6182 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
6183 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
6184 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
6185 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
6186 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
6187 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
6188 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
6189 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6192 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
6193 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
6196 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
6197 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
6198 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
6199 reachable from Iran again.
6202 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6203 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6204 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6206 o Minor features (security):
6207 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
6208 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
6209 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
6210 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
6211 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
6212 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
6213 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
6214 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
6215 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
6216 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6219 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6220 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6221 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6222 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6223 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6224 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6225 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
6226 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
6227 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6229 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
6230 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
6231 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
6232 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
6233 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
6235 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
6236 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
6237 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
6238 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
6239 fixes part of bug 2442.
6240 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
6241 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
6242 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
6244 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
6245 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
6246 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
6247 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
6248 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6251 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
6252 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
6253 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
6254 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
6255 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
6256 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
6259 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
6260 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
6261 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
6262 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
6263 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
6264 bufferevent-based networking backend.
6266 o Major features (stream isolation):
6267 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
6268 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
6269 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
6270 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
6271 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
6272 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
6273 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
6274 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
6275 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
6276 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
6277 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
6278 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
6279 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
6280 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
6282 o Major features (other):
6283 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
6284 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
6285 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
6286 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
6287 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
6288 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
6289 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
6290 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
6291 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
6292 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
6293 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
6294 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
6295 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
6297 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
6298 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
6300 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
6301 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
6302 Fixes part of bug 3752.
6303 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
6304 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
6305 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
6306 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
6307 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
6308 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
6309 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
6310 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
6311 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
6312 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
6313 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
6314 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
6315 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
6316 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
6317 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
6318 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
6319 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
6321 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
6322 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
6323 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
6324 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
6325 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
6326 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
6329 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
6330 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
6331 user. Implements ticket 1692.
6332 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
6333 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
6334 best copy data out of a buffer.
6335 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
6336 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
6337 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
6339 o Minor features (build compatibility):
6340 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
6341 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
6342 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
6344 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
6345 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6347 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
6348 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
6349 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6350 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
6351 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
6352 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
6353 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6355 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
6356 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
6357 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
6358 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
6359 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
6361 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
6362 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
6363 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
6366 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
6367 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
6368 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
6369 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
6370 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
6371 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
6372 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
6373 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
6374 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
6375 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
6376 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
6377 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6378 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
6379 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
6380 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
6381 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
6382 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
6383 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
6384 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
6387 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6388 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
6389 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
6393 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
6394 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
6395 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
6396 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
6397 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
6398 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
6401 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
6402 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
6403 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
6404 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
6405 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
6406 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
6407 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
6408 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
6409 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
6410 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
6412 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
6413 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
6414 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
6415 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
6416 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
6417 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
6418 many many other features and bugfixes.
6421 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
6422 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
6423 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
6426 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
6427 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
6428 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
6429 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
6430 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
6431 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
6432 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
6433 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
6436 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6439 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
6440 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
6441 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6442 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
6443 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
6444 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
6445 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
6446 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
6447 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
6448 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
6449 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
6450 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
6451 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
6452 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6453 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
6454 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
6455 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
6456 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
6460 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
6461 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
6462 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
6463 up a variety of recently introduced features.
6466 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
6467 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
6468 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
6469 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
6470 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
6471 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
6472 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
6473 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
6474 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
6475 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
6476 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
6477 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
6478 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
6479 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
6480 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
6481 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
6483 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
6484 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
6485 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
6486 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
6487 order. Fixes bug 2798.
6488 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
6489 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
6490 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
6491 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
6492 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
6493 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
6497 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
6498 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
6499 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
6500 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
6502 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
6503 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
6504 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
6505 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
6506 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
6507 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
6508 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
6509 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
6510 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
6511 Implements ticket 3264.
6512 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
6513 implements ticket 3439.
6515 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
6516 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
6517 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
6518 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
6519 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
6520 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
6521 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
6522 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
6523 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
6524 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
6525 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
6526 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
6527 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
6528 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
6529 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
6530 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
6531 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
6532 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
6533 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
6534 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
6535 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
6536 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
6537 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
6538 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
6539 fails. Spotted by coverity.
6540 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
6541 present. Found by coverity.
6542 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
6543 a directory cache that provides them.
6545 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6546 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
6547 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
6548 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
6549 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
6550 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
6552 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
6553 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
6554 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6555 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
6556 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
6557 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6558 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
6559 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
6561 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6562 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
6563 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
6564 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
6565 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
6566 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
6567 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
6569 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
6573 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
6574 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
6575 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
6578 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
6579 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
6580 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
6581 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
6584 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
6585 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
6586 discovered by katmagic.
6587 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
6588 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
6589 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
6590 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6591 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
6592 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
6593 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
6594 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6595 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
6596 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
6597 fixes part of bug 3465.
6598 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
6599 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
6603 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6606 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
6607 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
6608 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
6609 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
6610 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
6613 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
6614 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
6615 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
6616 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
6617 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
6620 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
6621 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
6622 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
6623 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
6624 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
6625 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
6628 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
6629 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
6630 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
6631 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6632 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
6633 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
6634 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
6635 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
6636 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
6637 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
6638 fixes part of bug 3407.
6639 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
6640 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
6641 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
6642 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
6643 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
6644 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
6645 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
6646 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
6647 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
6648 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
6650 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
6651 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
6652 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
6653 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
6656 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6658 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6659 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
6660 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
6662 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
6664 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
6667 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
6668 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
6669 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
6670 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
6671 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
6672 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
6676 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
6677 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
6678 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
6679 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6680 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
6681 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
6682 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
6684 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
6685 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6686 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
6687 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
6688 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
6689 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
6690 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
6691 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
6692 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
6693 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
6694 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
6695 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
6696 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
6697 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
6698 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
6699 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
6700 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
6701 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
6702 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
6706 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
6707 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
6708 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
6709 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
6710 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
6711 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
6712 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
6713 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
6714 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
6718 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6719 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
6720 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
6722 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
6724 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
6725 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
6726 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
6727 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
6728 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6729 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
6730 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
6731 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
6732 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
6734 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
6735 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
6736 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
6737 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
6738 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
6739 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
6741 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
6742 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
6744 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
6745 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
6746 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6749 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
6750 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
6751 Resolves ticket 3252.
6752 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
6753 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
6754 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
6755 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
6756 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
6757 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
6760 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6761 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6764 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
6765 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
6766 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
6769 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
6770 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6771 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
6772 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
6773 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
6776 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
6777 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6778 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
6779 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
6780 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
6781 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
6782 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
6783 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
6784 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
6788 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
6789 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
6790 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
6791 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
6792 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
6794 o Security/privacy fixes:
6795 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6796 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6797 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6798 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6799 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6800 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6801 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6802 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
6803 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
6804 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
6805 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
6806 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6807 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
6808 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
6809 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6812 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
6813 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
6814 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
6815 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
6816 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
6817 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
6818 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
6819 part of ticket 3076.
6820 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
6821 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
6822 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
6826 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
6827 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
6828 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
6829 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
6830 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
6831 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
6832 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
6833 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
6835 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
6836 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
6837 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
6838 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
6839 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
6840 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
6841 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
6842 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
6843 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
6844 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
6845 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
6846 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
6847 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6850 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
6851 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
6852 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
6853 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
6854 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6855 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6856 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6858 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
6859 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
6860 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
6861 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
6862 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
6863 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
6864 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
6865 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
6866 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
6867 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
6868 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
6869 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
6870 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
6871 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
6872 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
6873 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
6875 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
6876 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
6878 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
6879 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
6881 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
6882 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
6884 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
6885 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
6886 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6888 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
6889 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
6890 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
6891 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
6892 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6893 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
6894 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
6895 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
6896 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
6897 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
6898 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
6900 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
6901 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
6902 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
6903 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
6904 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
6905 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
6906 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
6907 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
6908 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
6909 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
6910 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6911 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
6912 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
6916 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
6917 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
6918 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
6922 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
6923 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
6924 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
6925 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
6926 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
6927 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
6929 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
6930 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
6931 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
6934 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
6935 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
6936 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
6937 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
6938 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
6939 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
6940 zero-copy transports where available.
6941 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
6942 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
6943 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
6944 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
6945 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
6946 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
6947 debug it as it breaks.
6948 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
6949 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
6950 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
6951 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
6952 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
6953 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
6954 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
6955 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
6956 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
6957 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
6958 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
6959 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
6960 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
6961 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
6962 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
6963 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
6964 PortForwarding option.
6965 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
6966 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
6967 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
6968 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
6969 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
6970 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
6971 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
6974 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
6975 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
6976 Implements enhancement 1668.
6977 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
6979 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
6980 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
6981 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
6982 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
6983 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
6984 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
6985 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
6987 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
6988 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
6989 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6990 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6991 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
6992 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
6993 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
6995 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
6996 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
6997 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
6998 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
6999 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
7000 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
7001 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
7003 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
7004 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
7005 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
7006 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
7007 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7008 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
7009 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
7010 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
7011 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
7012 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
7013 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
7014 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7015 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
7016 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
7017 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
7020 o Minor features (controller):
7021 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
7022 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
7023 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
7024 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
7025 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
7026 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
7027 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
7030 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
7031 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
7032 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
7033 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
7034 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
7035 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
7036 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
7037 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
7039 o Minor packaging issues:
7040 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
7041 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
7043 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7044 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
7045 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
7046 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
7047 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
7048 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
7049 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
7050 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
7051 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
7052 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
7053 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
7054 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
7055 our library structure used to force them to link it.
7058 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
7059 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
7060 are no longer in use as servers.
7062 o Documentation fixes:
7063 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
7064 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
7065 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
7069 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
7070 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
7071 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
7072 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
7073 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
7074 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
7075 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
7076 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
7077 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
7078 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
7081 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
7082 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
7083 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
7084 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
7085 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
7086 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
7087 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
7088 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
7089 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
7090 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7091 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
7092 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
7093 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7094 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
7095 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
7096 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
7098 o Security and stability fixes:
7099 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
7100 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
7101 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
7102 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
7103 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
7104 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
7105 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
7106 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
7107 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
7108 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
7109 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
7110 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
7111 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7112 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
7113 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
7114 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7117 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
7118 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
7119 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
7120 contributions to the network.
7122 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
7123 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
7124 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
7125 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
7126 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
7127 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
7128 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
7129 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
7130 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
7131 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
7132 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
7133 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
7134 connections to directory servers.
7135 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
7136 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
7137 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
7138 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
7139 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
7140 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
7141 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
7142 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
7143 information, or fetch directory information.
7144 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
7145 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
7146 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
7147 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
7148 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
7149 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
7150 unless you really want your Tor to break.
7151 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
7152 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
7153 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
7154 - When StrictNodes is 1:
7155 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
7156 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
7157 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
7158 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
7159 reachability self-tests.
7160 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
7161 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
7162 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
7163 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
7164 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7165 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
7166 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
7168 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
7169 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7170 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
7171 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
7172 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
7173 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7174 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
7175 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
7176 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
7177 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
7178 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
7181 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
7182 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
7183 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
7184 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
7185 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
7186 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7187 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
7188 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
7189 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
7190 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
7191 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
7192 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7193 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
7194 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
7195 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7196 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
7197 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
7199 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
7200 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
7201 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
7202 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
7203 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7204 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
7205 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7206 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
7207 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7208 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
7209 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
7210 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
7211 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
7212 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
7213 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
7214 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7215 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
7216 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
7217 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
7218 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
7221 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
7222 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
7223 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
7224 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
7225 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
7226 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
7227 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
7228 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
7229 Required by fix for bug 3000.
7230 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
7231 by fix for bug 3000.
7232 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
7233 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
7235 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7236 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
7237 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
7238 send a body too). Since only server versions before
7239 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
7240 keep the workaround in place.
7241 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
7242 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
7243 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
7244 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
7245 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
7246 want to do it differently.
7247 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
7248 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
7249 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
7250 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
7251 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
7255 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
7256 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
7257 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
7258 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
7259 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
7262 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
7263 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
7264 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
7265 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
7266 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
7268 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
7269 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
7270 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
7271 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
7272 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
7273 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
7274 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
7275 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
7276 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
7277 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
7278 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
7279 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
7282 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
7283 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
7284 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
7285 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
7286 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
7287 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
7288 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
7290 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
7291 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
7292 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
7293 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
7294 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
7295 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
7296 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
7297 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
7298 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
7299 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
7300 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
7301 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
7302 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
7303 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
7304 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
7305 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
7306 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
7307 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
7308 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
7309 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
7310 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
7311 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
7312 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7315 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
7317 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
7318 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
7319 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
7321 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
7322 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
7323 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
7324 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
7326 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
7327 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
7328 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
7329 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7332 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
7333 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
7335 o Documentation changes:
7336 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
7337 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
7339 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
7342 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
7343 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
7344 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
7345 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
7346 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
7347 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
7350 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7351 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
7352 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
7353 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
7354 the rest of bug 1074.
7355 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
7356 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
7357 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7358 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
7359 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
7360 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
7361 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7362 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
7363 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
7364 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
7365 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
7366 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
7367 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
7368 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7371 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
7372 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
7373 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
7374 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
7375 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
7376 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
7377 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
7378 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
7379 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
7380 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
7381 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
7382 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
7383 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
7384 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
7386 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7387 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
7388 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
7389 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
7390 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
7391 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
7393 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
7394 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
7395 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
7396 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
7397 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
7398 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
7399 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
7400 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
7401 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
7403 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
7404 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
7405 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
7406 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
7407 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
7408 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
7409 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
7410 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
7411 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
7412 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
7413 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
7414 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
7415 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
7416 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7417 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
7418 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
7420 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
7421 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
7422 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
7423 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
7424 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
7425 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
7427 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
7428 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
7429 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
7431 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7432 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
7433 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
7434 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
7435 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
7436 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
7437 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
7439 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
7440 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
7441 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
7442 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
7443 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
7447 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
7448 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
7449 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
7450 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
7451 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
7452 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
7453 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
7454 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
7455 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
7456 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
7457 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
7458 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
7460 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7462 o Minor features (log subsystem):
7463 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
7464 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
7465 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
7467 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
7468 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
7470 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
7471 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
7472 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
7475 o Packaging changes:
7476 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
7477 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
7478 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
7481 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
7482 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
7483 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
7484 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
7485 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
7486 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
7489 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7490 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
7491 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
7492 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
7493 the rest of bug 1074.
7494 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
7495 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7497 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
7498 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
7499 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
7500 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
7501 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
7502 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
7503 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7506 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
7508 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7511 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
7512 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
7513 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
7514 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
7515 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
7516 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
7517 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
7518 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
7519 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
7520 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
7521 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7523 o Packaging changes:
7524 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
7525 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
7526 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
7527 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
7528 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
7529 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
7532 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
7533 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
7534 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
7535 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
7536 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
7537 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
7540 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
7541 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7543 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
7544 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
7545 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
7546 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
7549 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
7551 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
7552 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
7553 Implements ticket 2432.
7556 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
7557 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
7558 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
7561 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
7562 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
7563 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
7564 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
7565 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
7566 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
7568 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7569 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
7570 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
7571 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
7573 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
7574 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
7575 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
7576 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
7577 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
7578 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
7579 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
7580 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
7582 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7583 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
7584 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
7585 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
7586 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
7587 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
7588 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
7589 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
7590 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
7591 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
7592 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
7593 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
7594 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
7595 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
7598 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7599 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
7600 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
7601 bug reported by doorss.
7602 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
7603 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
7604 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7605 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
7606 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
7608 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
7609 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
7610 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
7611 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
7612 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7614 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
7615 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7616 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
7618 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
7619 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
7620 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
7621 Automake 1.7 or later.
7622 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
7623 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
7624 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
7625 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
7627 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7628 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
7629 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
7632 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7633 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
7634 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
7635 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
7637 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7638 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
7639 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
7640 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
7641 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
7642 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
7643 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
7644 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
7645 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
7647 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
7648 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
7649 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
7652 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7653 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
7654 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
7655 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
7656 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
7657 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
7658 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
7659 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
7660 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
7661 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
7662 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
7663 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
7664 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
7666 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7667 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
7671 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
7672 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
7673 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
7674 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
7675 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
7677 o Major bugfixes (security):
7678 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
7679 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
7680 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
7682 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
7683 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
7684 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
7685 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
7686 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
7687 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
7688 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
7689 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
7691 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
7692 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
7693 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
7694 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
7695 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
7696 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
7697 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
7698 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
7699 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
7700 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
7701 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
7702 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
7703 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
7704 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
7707 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7708 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
7709 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
7710 bug reported by doorss.
7711 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
7712 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
7713 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7714 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
7715 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
7717 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
7718 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
7719 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
7720 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
7721 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7722 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
7723 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
7724 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
7725 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
7728 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7729 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
7732 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
7733 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
7734 Automake 1.7 or later.
7737 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
7738 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
7739 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
7740 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
7741 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
7744 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
7745 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
7746 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
7747 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
7748 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
7749 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
7750 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
7751 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
7752 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
7753 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
7754 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
7756 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
7757 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
7758 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
7759 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
7761 o Directory authority changes:
7762 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
7765 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
7766 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
7767 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
7768 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
7769 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
7770 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7771 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
7772 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
7773 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
7776 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7777 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
7778 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
7779 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
7780 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
7781 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
7782 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
7783 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
7784 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
7785 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
7789 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
7790 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
7791 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
7792 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
7796 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
7797 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
7798 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
7799 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
7801 o Directory authority changes:
7802 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
7805 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7808 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
7809 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
7810 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
7811 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
7812 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
7815 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
7816 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
7817 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
7818 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
7819 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7820 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
7821 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
7822 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
7823 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
7824 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7825 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
7826 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7827 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
7828 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
7829 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
7830 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
7831 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
7832 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7833 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
7834 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
7835 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
7836 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
7837 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
7840 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
7841 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
7842 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
7843 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
7845 o New directory authorities:
7846 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
7850 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
7851 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
7852 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
7854 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
7855 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7856 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
7857 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
7858 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
7859 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
7861 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
7862 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
7863 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
7866 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
7867 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
7868 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
7869 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
7870 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
7871 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
7872 Patch from mingw-san.
7875 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
7876 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
7877 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
7878 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
7879 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
7880 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
7883 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
7884 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
7885 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
7888 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
7889 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
7890 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
7891 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
7892 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7895 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
7896 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
7897 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
7898 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
7899 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
7900 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
7901 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
7902 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
7903 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
7906 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
7907 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
7908 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
7909 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
7910 to a stable release.
7913 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
7914 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
7915 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
7916 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7917 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
7918 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
7919 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
7920 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
7921 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7922 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
7923 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7924 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
7925 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
7926 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
7927 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
7928 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
7929 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
7930 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
7931 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
7932 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
7933 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
7934 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
7935 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
7936 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
7937 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
7938 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
7939 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
7940 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
7941 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
7942 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
7943 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
7946 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7947 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
7948 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
7949 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
7950 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
7951 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
7952 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
7953 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
7954 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
7955 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
7956 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
7957 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
7958 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
7959 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7960 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
7961 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
7962 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
7964 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
7965 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7966 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
7967 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
7968 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
7970 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
7971 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
7972 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
7973 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
7976 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
7977 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
7978 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
7979 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
7980 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
7981 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
7982 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
7983 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7985 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7986 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
7987 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
7988 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
7989 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
7990 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
7991 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
7992 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
7993 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
7994 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
7995 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
7996 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
7997 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
7998 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
7999 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
8002 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
8003 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
8004 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
8005 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
8006 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
8007 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
8008 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
8009 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
8010 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
8013 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
8014 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
8015 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
8016 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
8017 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
8019 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
8020 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
8021 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
8022 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
8023 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
8024 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
8025 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8026 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
8027 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
8028 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8029 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8030 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8031 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8032 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8034 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8035 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
8037 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
8038 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
8039 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
8040 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
8041 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
8042 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
8043 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
8044 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
8045 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
8046 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
8047 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
8048 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
8049 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
8050 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
8051 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
8052 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
8053 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
8054 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8056 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
8057 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
8058 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
8059 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
8060 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
8061 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
8062 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
8063 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
8064 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
8065 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
8066 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
8067 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
8068 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
8070 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
8071 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
8072 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
8073 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8076 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
8077 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
8078 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
8079 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
8080 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
8081 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
8082 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
8083 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
8084 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
8085 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
8086 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
8087 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
8088 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
8089 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
8090 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
8091 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
8092 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
8093 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
8094 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
8097 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8098 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
8099 based on the time during which we were active and not in
8100 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
8101 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
8102 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
8103 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
8104 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8106 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8107 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
8108 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
8109 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
8110 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
8111 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
8112 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
8113 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
8114 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
8115 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8118 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
8119 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
8120 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
8121 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
8123 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
8124 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
8125 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
8126 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
8127 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
8128 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
8129 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
8130 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
8131 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
8132 the longest-lived bug prize.
8133 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
8134 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
8135 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
8136 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
8137 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
8138 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
8140 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
8141 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
8142 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
8143 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
8144 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
8145 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
8149 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8150 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
8151 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
8152 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
8153 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
8154 got suppressed since the last warning.
8155 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
8156 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
8157 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
8158 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
8159 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
8160 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
8161 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
8162 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
8163 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
8164 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
8165 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
8166 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
8167 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
8168 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
8169 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
8170 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
8171 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
8172 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
8173 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
8175 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8176 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8177 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8179 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8180 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
8181 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
8182 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
8183 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
8184 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
8185 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
8186 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
8187 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
8188 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
8189 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
8190 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8191 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8192 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8193 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8195 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
8196 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
8197 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
8198 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
8199 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
8200 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8201 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
8203 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
8204 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
8205 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
8206 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
8207 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
8210 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8211 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
8212 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
8213 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
8214 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
8215 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
8216 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
8217 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
8218 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
8219 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
8220 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
8221 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
8222 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
8223 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
8224 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
8225 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
8226 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
8227 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
8230 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
8233 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
8234 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
8235 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
8236 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
8237 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
8241 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
8242 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
8243 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
8244 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
8245 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
8246 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
8247 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
8248 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
8249 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
8250 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
8251 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
8252 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
8253 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
8254 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
8255 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
8256 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
8257 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
8260 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
8261 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
8262 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
8263 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
8264 they first get the Guard flag.
8265 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
8269 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8270 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
8271 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
8272 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
8273 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
8274 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
8275 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
8276 Patch from mingw-san.
8277 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
8278 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
8280 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
8281 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
8282 Implements enhancement 1790.
8284 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8285 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
8286 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
8287 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
8288 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
8289 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
8290 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
8291 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
8292 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
8293 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
8294 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
8295 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
8296 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
8297 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
8298 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
8299 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
8300 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
8301 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
8302 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
8303 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
8305 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
8306 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
8307 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
8308 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
8309 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
8310 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
8311 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
8312 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
8313 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
8314 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
8315 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
8316 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
8317 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
8319 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
8320 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
8321 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
8322 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
8323 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
8324 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8326 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8327 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
8328 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
8329 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
8330 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
8331 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
8332 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
8333 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8334 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
8335 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
8336 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
8337 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
8339 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
8340 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
8341 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
8342 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
8343 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
8344 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
8345 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
8347 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
8349 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
8350 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8351 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
8352 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
8353 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
8354 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
8356 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8357 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
8358 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
8359 structures and defines in or.h for now.
8360 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
8361 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
8362 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
8363 statistics code to be more easily tested.
8364 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
8365 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
8366 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
8369 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
8370 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
8371 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
8372 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
8373 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
8374 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
8378 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
8379 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
8380 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
8381 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
8382 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
8383 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
8384 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
8385 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
8386 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
8387 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
8388 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
8389 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
8390 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
8392 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
8393 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
8394 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
8395 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
8396 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
8397 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
8398 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
8399 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
8400 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
8401 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
8402 can be controlled by the consensus.
8405 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
8406 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
8407 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
8408 more accurate data for many African countries.
8409 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
8410 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
8411 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
8412 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
8413 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
8414 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
8415 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
8416 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
8417 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
8418 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
8419 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
8420 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
8422 o New directory authorities:
8423 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
8427 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
8428 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
8429 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
8430 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
8431 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
8432 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
8433 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
8434 what should go in a patch.
8435 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
8436 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
8437 over our stored history.
8438 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
8439 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
8440 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
8441 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
8442 file. Fixes bug 1296.
8443 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
8444 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
8445 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
8449 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
8451 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
8452 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
8453 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
8454 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
8455 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
8456 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
8457 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
8458 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
8459 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
8460 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
8461 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
8462 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8463 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
8464 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
8465 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
8466 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
8467 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
8468 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
8469 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
8470 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
8471 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
8472 two-hop circuits are actually created.
8473 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
8474 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8475 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
8476 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8479 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
8480 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
8481 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
8482 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
8483 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
8485 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
8486 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
8489 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
8490 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
8491 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
8492 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
8493 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
8494 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
8495 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
8496 their directory fetches over TLS).
8497 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
8498 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
8499 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
8500 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
8501 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
8502 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
8503 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
8504 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
8507 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
8508 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
8512 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
8513 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8514 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
8515 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
8516 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
8517 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
8518 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8521 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
8522 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
8523 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
8524 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
8525 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
8528 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
8529 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
8530 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
8531 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
8532 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
8533 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
8534 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
8535 their directory fetches over TLS).
8538 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
8539 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
8541 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
8542 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
8543 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
8544 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
8545 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
8546 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
8547 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
8548 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
8549 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
8550 hour of their uptime.
8553 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
8554 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
8555 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
8559 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
8560 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
8561 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
8562 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
8563 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
8564 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
8566 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
8567 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
8568 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
8570 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
8571 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
8575 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
8576 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
8577 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
8581 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
8582 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
8583 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
8586 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
8587 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
8588 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
8589 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
8590 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
8591 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
8592 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
8593 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
8594 about the option without breaking older ones.
8595 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
8596 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
8597 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
8598 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
8601 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
8602 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
8603 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
8604 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
8606 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
8607 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
8608 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
8611 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
8612 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
8614 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
8615 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
8616 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
8617 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
8618 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
8619 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
8620 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8621 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
8622 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
8623 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
8624 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
8627 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
8628 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8629 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
8630 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
8631 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
8632 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
8633 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8636 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
8637 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
8638 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
8639 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
8640 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
8641 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
8644 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8645 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8646 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8647 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
8649 o Major features (performance):
8650 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
8651 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
8652 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
8653 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
8654 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
8655 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
8656 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
8658 o Minor features (performance):
8659 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
8660 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
8661 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
8662 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
8663 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
8667 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
8668 speeds up the build considerably.
8670 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8671 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
8672 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8673 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
8674 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8675 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
8676 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
8677 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8679 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
8680 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8681 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8683 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8684 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8685 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8686 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8688 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8689 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
8690 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
8691 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
8692 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
8693 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
8696 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
8697 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
8698 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
8700 o Directory authority changes:
8701 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
8702 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
8703 service directory authority) from the list.
8706 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8707 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8708 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8709 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8710 libraries in a security patch.
8711 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8712 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8713 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8714 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8716 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
8717 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
8718 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
8719 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
8720 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8721 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8722 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8725 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
8726 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
8727 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
8728 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
8729 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
8730 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
8731 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
8732 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
8733 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
8734 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
8735 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
8736 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
8737 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
8739 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
8740 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
8741 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
8742 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
8743 control-spec.txt said they were.
8744 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8745 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8746 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
8747 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
8748 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8750 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8751 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
8752 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
8754 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
8755 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
8756 iPhone SDK versions.
8757 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
8758 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
8759 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
8760 projects directory in svn.
8761 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
8762 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
8763 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
8767 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
8768 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
8769 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
8771 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
8772 to the circuit build timeout.
8773 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
8774 arguments we do not recognize.
8775 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
8776 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
8777 open() without checking it.
8780 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
8781 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
8782 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
8783 several minor potential security bugs.
8786 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8787 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8788 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8789 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
8790 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8791 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8792 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8795 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8796 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8798 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8799 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8800 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8801 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8805 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
8806 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
8810 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
8811 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
8812 customized patches to run/build.
8815 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
8816 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
8817 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
8820 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8821 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8822 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8823 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8824 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8825 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8826 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8827 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8830 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8831 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8832 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8833 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8834 libraries in a security patch.
8835 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8836 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8837 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8838 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8841 o Directory authority changes:
8842 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
8843 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
8844 service directory authority) from the list.
8847 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8848 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8851 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8852 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8853 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8854 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8855 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8858 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
8859 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
8860 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
8864 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
8865 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
8866 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
8867 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
8868 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8871 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
8872 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
8873 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
8877 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
8878 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
8879 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
8880 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
8881 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
8883 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
8884 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
8886 o Directory authority changes:
8887 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
8890 o Major features (performance):
8891 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8892 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8893 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8894 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8895 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8896 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8897 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8898 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
8899 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
8900 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
8901 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
8902 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
8903 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
8905 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
8906 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
8907 but never per-conn write limits.
8908 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
8909 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
8910 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
8911 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
8913 o Major features (relay selection options):
8914 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
8915 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
8916 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
8917 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
8918 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
8919 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
8920 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
8922 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
8923 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
8925 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
8926 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
8927 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
8928 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
8929 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
8930 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
8931 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
8932 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
8933 the network changes.
8936 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
8937 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
8938 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8941 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
8942 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
8943 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
8944 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
8945 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
8946 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
8947 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
8948 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
8949 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
8950 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
8951 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
8952 generated while acting as a relay.
8953 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
8954 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8955 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8956 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8957 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8958 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8960 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
8961 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
8962 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8963 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
8964 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
8965 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
8968 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
8969 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
8970 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
8972 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
8973 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
8974 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
8976 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
8977 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
8979 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
8980 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
8981 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
8983 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
8984 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
8987 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8988 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
8989 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
8990 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
8991 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
8992 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
8993 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
8994 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
8995 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
8997 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
9001 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
9002 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
9003 hidden service usage.
9006 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
9007 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
9008 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
9009 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
9010 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
9012 o Directory authority changes:
9013 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
9017 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
9018 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
9019 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9022 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
9023 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
9024 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
9025 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
9026 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
9029 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
9030 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
9031 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
9032 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
9033 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
9034 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
9035 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
9038 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
9039 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
9040 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9041 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
9042 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
9043 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
9045 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
9046 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
9049 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
9050 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
9051 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
9052 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
9053 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
9054 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
9057 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
9058 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
9059 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
9061 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
9062 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
9063 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
9064 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
9065 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
9066 download consensus + microdescriptors".
9067 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
9068 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
9069 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
9070 hash algorithm in the future.
9071 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
9072 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
9073 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
9074 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
9075 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
9076 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
9077 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
9078 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
9079 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
9082 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
9083 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
9084 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
9085 won't work unless we say we are.
9088 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
9089 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
9090 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
9091 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
9092 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
9093 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
9094 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
9095 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
9096 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9097 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
9098 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
9099 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
9100 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
9101 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
9102 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
9103 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
9104 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
9105 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
9106 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
9107 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
9108 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
9109 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
9112 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
9113 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
9114 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
9115 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
9117 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
9118 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
9120 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
9121 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
9122 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
9123 in the Vidalia Settings window.
9126 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
9127 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
9128 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
9129 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
9130 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
9132 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
9133 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
9135 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
9136 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
9137 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
9140 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
9141 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
9142 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
9144 o New directory authorities:
9145 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
9147 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
9150 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
9151 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
9153 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
9154 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
9155 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9156 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
9157 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
9158 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
9159 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9160 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9161 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
9162 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
9163 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
9164 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
9165 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
9166 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
9167 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
9168 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
9169 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
9171 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
9172 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
9173 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
9175 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
9176 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
9180 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
9181 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
9182 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
9183 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
9184 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
9187 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
9188 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9191 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9193 o Directory authorities:
9194 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
9198 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
9199 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
9200 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
9201 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
9202 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
9205 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
9206 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
9207 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
9208 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
9210 o New directory authorities:
9211 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
9214 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
9215 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
9216 SSL handshake issues.
9217 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
9218 during the TLS handshake.
9219 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
9220 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
9221 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
9222 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
9223 none of which are very big.
9226 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
9228 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
9229 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9230 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
9231 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
9232 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9233 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
9234 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
9235 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
9238 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9239 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
9240 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
9241 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
9242 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
9245 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
9246 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9249 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
9250 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
9253 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
9254 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
9255 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9258 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
9259 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
9260 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
9261 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
9262 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
9263 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
9266 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
9267 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
9268 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
9269 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
9270 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
9271 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
9272 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
9273 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
9274 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
9275 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
9276 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
9277 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
9278 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
9279 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
9280 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
9281 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
9282 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
9283 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
9286 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
9287 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
9291 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
9292 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
9293 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9294 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
9295 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
9296 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
9297 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9298 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
9299 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
9300 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
9301 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9302 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9303 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
9304 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
9305 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
9306 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
9307 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
9308 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
9309 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
9310 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
9311 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
9313 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
9314 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
9315 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
9316 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9317 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
9318 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
9320 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
9321 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
9322 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
9325 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
9326 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
9327 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
9328 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
9329 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
9330 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
9333 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
9334 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
9335 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
9336 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
9337 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
9340 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
9341 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
9342 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
9345 o New directory authorities:
9346 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
9350 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
9351 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
9352 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
9353 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
9354 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
9357 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
9358 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
9359 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
9360 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
9361 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
9364 o New options for gathering stats safely:
9365 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
9366 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
9367 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
9368 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
9369 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
9370 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
9371 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
9372 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
9373 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
9375 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
9376 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
9377 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
9378 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
9380 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
9381 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
9382 their extra-info documents.
9385 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
9386 source files Tor was built with.
9387 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
9388 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
9389 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
9390 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
9391 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
9392 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
9394 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
9395 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
9396 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
9397 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
9398 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
9400 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
9401 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
9404 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
9405 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
9406 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
9407 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
9408 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
9410 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
9411 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
9413 o Deprecated and removed features:
9414 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
9415 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
9416 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
9417 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
9418 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
9419 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
9420 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
9421 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
9423 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
9424 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
9425 via application-level web tricks.
9427 o Packaging changes:
9428 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
9429 installer bundles. See
9430 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
9431 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
9432 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
9433 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
9434 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
9435 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
9436 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
9437 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
9438 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
9439 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
9440 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
9441 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
9444 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
9445 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
9446 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
9449 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
9450 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
9451 part of patch provided by "optimist".
9454 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
9455 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
9456 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
9457 and confuse fewer users.
9460 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
9461 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
9462 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
9463 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
9464 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
9465 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
9466 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
9469 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
9470 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
9471 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
9472 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
9473 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
9474 other features and bug fixes.
9477 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
9480 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
9481 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
9482 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
9483 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
9484 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
9487 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
9488 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
9489 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
9490 failure message (oops).
9493 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
9494 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
9495 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
9496 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
9500 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
9501 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
9502 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
9503 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
9504 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
9505 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
9506 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9507 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
9508 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
9509 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
9510 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
9511 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
9512 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
9513 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
9514 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
9517 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
9518 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
9519 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
9520 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
9521 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
9522 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
9523 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
9524 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
9525 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
9526 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
9527 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
9528 Workaround for bug 1024.
9529 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
9533 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
9534 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
9535 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
9538 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
9540 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
9541 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
9542 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
9543 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
9544 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
9547 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
9548 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
9549 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
9550 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
9551 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
9552 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
9553 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
9554 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
9555 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
9556 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
9559 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
9560 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
9561 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
9562 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
9563 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
9564 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
9565 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
9566 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
9569 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
9570 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
9571 a bunch of minor bugs.
9574 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
9575 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
9576 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
9578 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
9579 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
9580 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
9581 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
9583 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
9587 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
9588 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
9589 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
9591 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9592 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
9594 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
9595 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
9597 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
9598 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
9599 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
9600 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
9601 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
9602 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
9603 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
9604 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
9606 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9607 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
9608 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
9610 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
9611 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
9612 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
9613 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
9614 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
9618 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
9619 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
9620 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
9623 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9624 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
9625 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
9626 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
9628 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9629 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
9630 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
9631 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9632 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
9633 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
9634 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
9635 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
9636 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
9637 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
9638 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
9639 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9640 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
9641 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
9642 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
9643 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
9644 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
9646 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
9647 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
9648 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
9649 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9652 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
9653 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9656 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
9657 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
9658 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
9659 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
9660 addresses to fall out of the directory.
9663 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
9664 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
9665 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
9666 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
9668 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
9669 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
9670 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
9671 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
9672 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
9673 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
9674 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
9675 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
9676 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
9677 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
9678 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
9679 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
9680 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
9682 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
9683 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
9686 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
9687 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
9688 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
9689 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
9690 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
9691 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
9693 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
9694 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
9695 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
9696 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
9697 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
9699 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
9702 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
9703 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
9705 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
9706 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
9707 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9708 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9709 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
9710 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
9712 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
9713 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9714 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
9715 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
9716 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
9717 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9718 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
9719 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
9720 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
9721 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
9722 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
9723 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
9727 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
9728 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
9729 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
9732 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
9733 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
9734 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9736 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
9737 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
9738 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
9739 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
9740 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
9741 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
9742 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
9743 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
9744 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
9745 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
9746 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
9747 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9748 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
9749 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
9750 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
9751 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
9752 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
9753 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
9754 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
9755 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
9756 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
9757 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
9758 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
9759 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
9760 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
9761 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
9763 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
9764 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
9765 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
9766 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
9767 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
9768 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
9769 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
9770 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
9771 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
9772 of 0. Suggested by lark.
9774 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9775 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
9776 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
9777 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
9778 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
9781 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
9783 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
9784 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
9785 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
9786 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
9789 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
9790 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
9791 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
9792 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9793 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
9795 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
9796 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
9797 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
9798 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
9801 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9802 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9803 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9804 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9805 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9806 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
9807 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
9808 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
9811 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
9812 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9813 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9814 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9817 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
9818 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
9819 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
9820 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9821 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
9822 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
9825 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9826 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9827 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9828 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9829 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9830 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9833 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
9834 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
9835 reported by Matt Edman.
9836 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
9838 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
9839 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
9840 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
9841 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
9843 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
9844 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9845 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
9846 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9847 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9848 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9849 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
9850 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
9851 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
9852 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
9853 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
9854 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
9855 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
9856 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9857 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
9858 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9859 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
9860 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
9861 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9864 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
9865 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9866 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
9867 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
9870 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
9871 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
9872 the letter of C99's alias rules.
9875 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
9876 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
9877 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
9878 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
9880 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
9881 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
9882 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
9885 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
9886 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
9889 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
9890 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
9891 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
9892 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
9893 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
9895 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
9896 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
9897 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
9898 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
9899 identify a connection.
9900 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
9901 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
9902 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
9903 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
9904 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
9905 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
9906 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9907 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
9908 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
9909 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
9911 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
9912 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
9913 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
9914 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
9915 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
9916 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
9917 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
9920 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
9921 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
9923 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
9924 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
9925 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
9926 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
9927 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
9928 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
9929 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9930 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
9932 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
9933 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
9934 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
9935 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
9936 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
9937 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
9938 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
9939 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
9940 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
9941 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
9942 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
9943 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
9944 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
9945 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
9946 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9947 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
9948 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
9949 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9950 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
9951 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
9952 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
9953 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
9954 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
9955 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
9956 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
9957 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
9958 840. Patch from rovv.
9959 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
9960 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
9961 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
9963 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
9964 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
9965 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
9966 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
9967 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
9968 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
9969 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9971 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9972 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
9973 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
9976 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
9977 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
9979 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
9980 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
9981 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
9982 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
9983 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
9984 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
9985 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
9986 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
9987 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
9989 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
9991 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9992 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
9996 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
9997 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
9998 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
9999 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
10000 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
10001 have had some time to upgrade.)
10004 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
10005 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
10008 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
10009 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
10010 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
10011 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
10012 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
10015 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
10016 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
10018 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
10019 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10020 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
10021 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
10022 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
10023 entirely. Patch from coderman.
10026 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
10027 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10028 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
10029 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
10030 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
10031 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10032 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
10036 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
10037 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
10038 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
10039 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
10040 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
10041 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
10042 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
10045 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
10046 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
10047 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
10048 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
10049 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
10051 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
10052 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
10053 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
10054 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
10055 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
10056 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
10057 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
10058 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
10059 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
10060 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
10064 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
10065 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
10066 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
10068 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
10069 without support for deprecated functions.
10070 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
10072 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10073 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
10074 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
10075 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
10076 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
10077 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10078 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10079 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
10080 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
10081 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
10082 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
10083 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
10084 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
10085 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
10086 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
10087 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
10088 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
10089 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
10090 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
10091 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
10092 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10093 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
10094 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
10096 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10097 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
10098 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
10099 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
10100 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
10101 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
10103 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
10104 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
10105 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
10106 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
10107 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
10109 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
10110 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
10111 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
10113 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
10114 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
10117 o Deprecated and removed features:
10118 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
10119 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
10120 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
10123 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10124 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
10125 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
10126 with log.h on Android.
10127 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
10128 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
10131 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
10132 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
10134 o New directory authorities:
10135 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
10139 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
10140 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
10141 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
10142 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
10143 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
10144 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10147 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
10148 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
10149 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
10150 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
10151 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
10152 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
10153 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
10154 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
10155 reported by "wood".
10156 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
10157 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
10158 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
10159 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
10162 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
10163 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
10165 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
10166 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
10167 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
10168 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
10169 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
10170 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
10171 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
10172 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
10173 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
10174 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
10175 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
10176 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
10177 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
10178 Implements proposal 148.
10179 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
10180 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
10181 system to do it for us.
10182 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
10183 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
10184 this fix will be slightly helpful.
10185 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
10186 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
10187 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
10188 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
10189 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
10190 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
10191 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
10192 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
10193 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
10196 o Minor features (controller):
10197 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
10198 been fetched and validated.
10199 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
10200 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
10201 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
10202 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
10203 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
10204 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
10207 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
10208 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10209 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
10210 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
10211 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
10213 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
10214 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
10215 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10216 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
10217 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
10218 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
10219 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
10220 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
10221 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
10223 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10224 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
10225 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
10226 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
10227 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
10228 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
10229 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
10230 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
10232 o Deprecated and removed features:
10233 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
10235 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
10236 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
10237 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
10239 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10240 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
10241 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
10243 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
10244 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
10245 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
10246 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
10247 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
10248 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
10251 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
10252 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
10253 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
10254 fixes a variety of other issues.
10257 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
10258 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
10259 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
10260 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
10263 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
10264 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
10265 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
10266 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10269 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
10270 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10271 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
10275 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
10277 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
10278 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
10279 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
10280 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
10281 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
10282 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
10283 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
10285 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
10286 rest, and don't automatically fail.
10287 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
10288 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10289 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
10290 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
10292 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
10293 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
10294 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
10295 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
10296 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
10297 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
10298 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
10299 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
10300 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
10301 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
10303 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
10307 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
10308 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
10309 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
10311 o Minor features (controller):
10312 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
10316 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
10317 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
10318 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
10319 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
10320 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
10321 variety of other issues.
10324 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
10325 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
10326 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
10327 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
10328 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
10329 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
10330 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
10331 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
10332 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
10333 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
10334 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
10335 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
10338 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
10339 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10341 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10342 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
10343 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
10344 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
10345 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
10346 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
10347 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10348 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
10349 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
10350 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
10351 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
10352 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
10353 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
10354 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
10355 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
10359 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
10360 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
10361 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
10362 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
10363 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
10364 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
10365 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
10366 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
10367 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
10368 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
10369 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
10370 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
10371 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
10372 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
10373 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
10374 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
10375 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
10376 list. It has been gone for many months.
10377 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
10378 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
10379 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
10382 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10383 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
10384 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
10387 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
10388 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
10389 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
10390 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
10391 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
10392 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
10393 variety of other issues.
10396 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
10397 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
10398 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
10399 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
10400 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
10401 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
10402 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
10403 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
10404 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
10405 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
10406 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
10407 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
10408 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
10409 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
10412 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
10413 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
10414 Suggested by Lucky Green.
10415 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
10416 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
10417 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
10418 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
10419 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
10420 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
10422 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
10423 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
10425 o Hidden service performance improvements:
10426 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
10427 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
10428 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
10429 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
10430 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
10431 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
10432 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
10433 faster after restart.
10436 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
10437 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
10438 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
10439 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
10440 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
10441 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
10442 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
10443 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
10444 840. Patch from rovv.
10445 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
10446 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
10447 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
10448 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
10449 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
10450 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
10451 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
10452 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
10453 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
10455 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
10456 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
10457 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
10458 have already been marked for close.
10459 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
10460 introduction points.
10461 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
10462 memory performance during directory parsing.
10463 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
10464 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
10465 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
10466 because of a pending download.
10469 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
10470 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
10471 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
10472 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10475 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
10476 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
10477 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
10478 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
10479 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
10480 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
10481 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
10482 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
10483 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
10484 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
10485 lookups more reliable.
10486 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
10487 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
10488 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
10489 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
10490 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
10491 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
10492 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10495 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
10496 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
10497 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10498 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
10499 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
10500 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
10501 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
10502 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
10503 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
10504 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
10505 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
10507 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
10508 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
10509 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
10510 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
10511 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
10512 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10513 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
10514 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
10515 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10518 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
10519 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
10520 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
10521 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
10522 locked down these days.
10523 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
10524 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
10525 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
10526 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
10527 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
10529 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
10530 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
10531 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
10532 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
10533 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
10534 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
10535 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
10536 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
10537 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
10538 people find host:port too confusing.
10539 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
10540 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10541 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
10544 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10546 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
10547 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
10548 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
10549 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
10550 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
10552 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
10553 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
10554 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
10555 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
10556 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
10557 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
10558 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
10559 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
10560 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
10561 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
10562 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
10563 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
10565 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
10566 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
10567 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
10568 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
10569 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
10570 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
10571 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10572 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
10573 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
10575 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
10576 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
10577 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
10578 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
10579 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
10580 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10581 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
10582 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
10583 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
10584 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
10585 bug 820, reported by seeess.
10586 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
10587 list. It has been gone for many months.
10589 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10590 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
10591 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
10592 actual mistakes we're making here.
10593 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
10594 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
10595 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
10596 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
10599 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
10600 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
10601 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
10602 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10605 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
10606 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
10607 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
10608 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
10609 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
10610 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
10612 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
10613 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
10614 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
10615 pointed out by rovv.
10618 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
10619 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10620 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
10621 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10622 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
10623 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
10624 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
10625 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
10626 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
10627 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10628 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
10629 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
10630 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
10631 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10632 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
10633 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
10634 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
10635 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
10636 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
10637 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
10638 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
10641 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
10642 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
10643 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
10644 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
10645 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
10646 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
10647 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10650 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
10652 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
10653 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
10654 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
10655 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
10656 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
10657 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
10658 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
10660 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
10661 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
10662 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
10663 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
10664 known descriptor before building circuits.
10666 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
10667 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
10668 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
10669 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
10670 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
10671 identify a connection.
10672 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
10673 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
10674 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
10676 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
10677 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
10678 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
10679 pointed out by rovv.
10682 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
10683 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10684 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
10685 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
10686 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
10687 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10688 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
10689 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10690 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
10691 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
10692 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
10693 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
10694 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
10695 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
10696 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10699 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
10700 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
10701 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
10702 answer sections match.
10703 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
10704 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
10707 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
10708 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10711 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
10712 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
10713 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
10715 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
10716 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
10717 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10720 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
10721 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
10722 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
10723 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
10726 o Removed features:
10727 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
10728 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
10731 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
10732 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
10733 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
10734 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
10735 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
10736 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
10738 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
10739 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
10740 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
10743 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
10744 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
10745 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
10746 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
10747 be sent using an "early" cell.
10750 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
10751 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
10752 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
10753 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
10754 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
10755 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
10756 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
10759 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
10760 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
10761 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
10762 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
10763 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
10764 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
10765 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
10766 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
10767 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
10768 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
10769 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
10770 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
10771 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
10772 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
10773 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
10774 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
10777 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
10778 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
10779 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
10780 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
10781 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
10782 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
10783 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
10784 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
10785 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
10787 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
10788 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
10789 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
10790 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
10791 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
10794 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10795 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
10796 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
10797 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
10799 o Removed features:
10800 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
10801 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
10805 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
10807 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
10808 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
10809 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
10812 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
10813 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
10814 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10817 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
10818 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
10819 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
10820 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
10821 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10822 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
10823 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
10824 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
10825 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10826 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
10827 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
10828 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
10829 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
10830 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
10831 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
10832 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
10833 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
10834 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
10835 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
10836 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
10837 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
10838 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
10839 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
10842 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
10843 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
10845 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
10846 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
10847 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
10848 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
10849 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
10850 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
10851 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
10853 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
10854 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
10855 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
10856 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
10857 found by Geoff Goodell.
10860 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
10861 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
10862 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
10863 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
10864 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
10865 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
10868 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
10869 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
10870 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
10873 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
10874 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
10875 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
10876 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
10877 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10878 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
10879 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
10880 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
10881 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10882 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
10883 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
10884 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
10885 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
10886 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
10889 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
10890 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
10891 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
10893 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
10894 fingerprints with or without space.
10895 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
10896 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
10897 partway through and wants to catch up.
10898 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
10899 state to start out in.
10902 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
10903 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
10904 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10905 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
10906 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
10909 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
10910 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
10911 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
10912 some of the connection attempts fail.
10913 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
10914 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
10915 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
10916 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
10917 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
10918 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
10920 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
10921 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
10922 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
10925 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
10926 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
10927 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
10928 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
10929 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
10930 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
10931 and adds a variety of smaller features.
10934 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
10935 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
10936 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
10937 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
10939 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
10940 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
10941 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
10942 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
10944 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
10945 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
10946 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
10947 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
10948 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
10949 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
10950 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
10953 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
10954 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
10955 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
10956 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
10957 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
10959 o Memory fixes and improvements:
10960 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
10961 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
10962 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
10963 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
10964 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
10965 on a typical directory cache.
10966 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
10967 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
10968 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
10969 and may reduce fragmentation.
10970 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
10971 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
10972 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
10974 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
10975 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
10976 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
10978 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
10979 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
10983 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
10984 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
10985 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
10986 done that for a long time.
10987 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
10988 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
10989 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
10990 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
10993 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
10994 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
10995 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
10996 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
10997 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
10998 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
11000 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
11001 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
11002 output to messages of warning and error severity.
11003 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
11004 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
11005 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
11006 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
11007 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
11008 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
11009 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
11010 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
11011 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
11012 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
11013 directory requests we should expect to see.
11014 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
11016 - Lots of new unit tests.
11017 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
11018 two parallel lists in lockstep.
11021 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
11022 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
11023 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11026 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
11027 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
11028 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
11029 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
11030 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
11031 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
11032 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
11035 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
11036 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
11037 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
11041 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
11042 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
11043 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
11046 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
11047 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
11048 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
11050 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
11051 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
11053 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
11054 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
11055 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
11056 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
11057 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11058 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
11059 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
11061 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
11062 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
11063 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
11064 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
11065 - Fix compile on Windows.
11068 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
11069 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
11070 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
11071 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
11072 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
11073 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
11074 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
11077 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
11078 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
11081 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
11082 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
11083 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
11084 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
11086 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
11087 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
11088 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
11091 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
11092 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
11093 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
11094 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
11098 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
11099 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
11100 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
11101 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
11103 o Major security fixes:
11104 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
11105 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
11106 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
11107 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
11108 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
11111 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
11112 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11115 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
11116 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
11119 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
11120 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
11123 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
11124 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
11125 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
11128 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
11129 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11132 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
11133 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
11134 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
11135 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
11136 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
11138 o New directory authorities:
11139 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
11140 it has been down for months.
11141 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
11145 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
11146 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
11148 o Minor features (security):
11149 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
11150 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
11151 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
11154 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
11155 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
11156 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
11157 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
11158 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
11159 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
11160 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
11161 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
11162 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11164 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
11165 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
11166 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11167 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
11168 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11169 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
11170 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11171 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
11172 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
11174 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11175 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
11176 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
11177 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
11178 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
11179 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
11180 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
11181 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
11182 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
11183 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
11184 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11185 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
11186 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
11187 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
11188 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
11189 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
11190 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
11191 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
11192 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
11195 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
11196 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11197 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
11198 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
11201 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
11202 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
11203 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
11204 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
11207 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
11208 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11209 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
11210 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
11211 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
11214 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
11215 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
11216 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
11217 certain censored countries by default again.
11220 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
11221 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11222 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
11223 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
11224 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11225 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
11226 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
11227 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
11229 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
11230 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
11231 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
11232 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
11233 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
11234 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
11235 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
11236 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
11237 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
11238 a directory. Fix from lodger.
11240 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11241 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
11242 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
11243 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
11244 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
11245 RelayBandwidth* values.
11246 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
11247 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
11248 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
11249 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
11250 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
11251 get_interface_address6().
11252 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
11253 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
11254 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
11256 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
11257 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
11258 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
11259 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11260 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
11261 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
11262 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11263 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
11264 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
11265 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11268 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
11269 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
11270 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
11273 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
11274 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11275 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
11276 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
11277 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
11280 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
11281 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
11282 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
11283 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
11284 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
11285 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
11286 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
11287 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
11288 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
11291 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
11292 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
11293 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
11294 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11297 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
11298 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
11299 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
11300 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
11301 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
11302 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
11303 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
11306 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
11307 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
11308 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
11309 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
11310 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
11311 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
11312 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
11314 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
11315 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
11316 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
11317 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
11318 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
11321 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
11322 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
11323 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11324 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
11325 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
11326 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
11327 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11328 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
11329 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
11330 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
11331 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
11332 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
11333 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
11334 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
11335 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
11336 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11337 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
11338 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11339 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11340 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
11341 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
11342 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
11343 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
11344 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
11345 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
11346 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
11348 o Minor features (performance):
11349 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
11351 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
11352 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
11353 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
11354 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
11355 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
11356 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
11357 non-system include paths.
11358 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
11359 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
11362 o Minor features (other):
11363 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
11365 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
11366 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
11367 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
11370 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
11371 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
11372 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
11373 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
11375 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
11376 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
11377 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
11378 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
11379 Should fix bug 537.
11380 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
11381 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
11382 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11383 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
11384 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11386 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11387 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
11388 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
11389 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
11390 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
11391 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
11392 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
11393 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
11394 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
11395 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
11396 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
11397 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
11398 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
11399 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
11400 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
11401 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11402 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
11403 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
11404 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
11405 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
11406 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
11407 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
11408 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
11409 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
11410 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
11413 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11414 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
11415 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
11419 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
11420 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
11421 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
11422 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
11423 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
11426 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
11427 Tor's x509 certificates.
11430 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
11431 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
11432 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11433 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
11434 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
11435 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11437 o Minor features (security):
11438 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
11439 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
11441 o Minor features (directory authority):
11442 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
11443 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
11444 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
11445 bandwidthburst values.
11447 o Minor features (controller):
11448 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
11449 processes from running us out of memory.
11451 o Minor features (misc):
11452 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
11453 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
11454 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
11455 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
11457 o Deprecated features (controller):
11458 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
11459 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
11460 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
11463 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
11464 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
11466 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
11467 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
11468 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11469 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
11470 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
11471 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11472 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
11473 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
11475 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
11476 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11477 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
11478 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11479 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
11480 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
11481 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
11482 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
11484 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
11485 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
11486 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
11487 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
11488 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11489 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
11490 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11491 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
11492 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11493 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
11494 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
11495 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11497 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11498 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
11500 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
11501 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
11502 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
11503 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
11504 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
11505 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
11508 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
11509 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
11510 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
11511 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
11512 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
11514 o New directory authorities:
11515 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
11519 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
11520 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
11521 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
11522 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
11523 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
11524 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
11525 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
11526 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
11530 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
11531 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
11532 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
11533 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
11534 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
11535 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
11536 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
11537 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
11538 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
11539 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
11542 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
11543 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
11544 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
11545 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
11549 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
11550 the request isn't encrypted.
11551 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
11552 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
11553 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
11554 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
11555 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
11558 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
11559 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
11562 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
11565 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
11566 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
11567 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
11569 o New directory authorities:
11570 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
11573 o Major performance improvements:
11574 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
11575 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
11576 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
11577 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
11578 memory fragmentation.
11581 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
11582 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
11583 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
11584 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
11585 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
11586 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
11587 bodies when they receive them.
11588 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
11589 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
11590 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
11592 o Minor performance improvements:
11593 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
11594 of them were actually distinct.
11595 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
11596 interested in a given message.
11599 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
11600 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
11601 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
11602 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
11603 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
11604 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
11605 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
11606 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
11607 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
11608 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
11609 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
11611 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
11612 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
11613 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
11614 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
11615 this country" and "1 person from this country".
11616 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
11617 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
11618 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
11619 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
11620 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
11622 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
11623 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
11624 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
11626 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
11627 but client versions are not.
11628 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
11629 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
11631 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
11632 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
11633 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
11634 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
11635 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
11637 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
11638 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
11639 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
11642 o Minor features (controller):
11643 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
11644 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
11645 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
11646 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
11648 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11649 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
11650 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
11651 running a test network on a single host.
11652 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
11653 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
11655 o Minor features (bridges):
11656 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
11657 unencrypted connections.
11659 o Minor features (other):
11660 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
11661 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
11662 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
11663 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
11666 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
11667 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
11668 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
11669 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11672 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
11673 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
11674 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
11675 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
11676 on network address.
11679 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
11680 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
11681 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
11682 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
11683 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
11684 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
11685 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
11686 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
11687 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
11688 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
11689 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
11690 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
11693 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
11694 rebuild our server descriptor.
11695 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
11696 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
11697 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
11698 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
11699 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
11700 nonstandard integer types.
11701 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
11702 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
11703 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
11704 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
11705 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
11707 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
11708 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
11709 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
11710 when they receive them.
11711 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
11712 This includes some 64-bit systems.
11713 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
11714 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
11715 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
11716 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
11717 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
11718 router_get_by_hexdigest().
11719 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
11720 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
11724 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
11725 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
11726 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11729 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
11730 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
11731 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
11732 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
11733 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
11734 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
11735 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
11736 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11739 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
11740 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
11741 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
11742 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
11744 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
11745 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
11748 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
11749 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
11752 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
11754 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
11755 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
11757 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
11758 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
11759 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
11760 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11761 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
11762 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
11763 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
11764 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11765 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
11766 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
11770 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
11771 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
11772 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
11775 - Make the unit tests build again.
11776 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
11777 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
11778 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
11779 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
11780 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
11781 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11782 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
11783 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
11784 the next one as a duplicate.
11787 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
11788 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
11789 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
11790 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
11793 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
11794 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
11795 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
11798 o New directory authorities:
11799 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
11803 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
11804 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
11805 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
11806 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
11807 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
11808 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
11809 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
11811 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
11812 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
11814 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
11815 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
11816 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
11817 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
11818 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
11819 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
11821 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
11822 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
11823 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11824 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
11825 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
11826 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11829 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
11830 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
11831 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
11832 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
11833 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
11834 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
11835 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
11836 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
11837 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
11838 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
11839 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
11840 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
11841 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
11842 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
11843 where Tor is blocked.
11844 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
11845 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
11846 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
11847 to a file periodically.
11848 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
11849 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
11850 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
11854 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
11855 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
11856 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
11857 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
11858 in the relevant networkstatus document.
11859 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
11860 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
11861 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11862 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
11863 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
11864 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
11865 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
11866 by Karsten Loesing.
11867 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
11868 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
11869 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
11870 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
11871 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
11872 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11873 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
11874 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
11875 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
11876 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11877 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
11878 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
11879 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
11880 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11881 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
11882 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
11883 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
11884 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
11885 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
11886 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11887 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11888 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
11889 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11890 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
11891 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
11892 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11893 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
11894 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11897 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
11898 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
11899 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
11900 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
11901 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
11902 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
11903 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
11904 even if your DirPort isn't on.
11905 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
11906 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
11907 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
11909 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
11910 multiple controller passwords.
11911 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
11912 router based on the router's purpose.
11913 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
11914 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
11915 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
11916 the approved-routers file.
11919 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
11920 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
11921 well as a few minor bugs.
11924 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
11925 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
11926 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
11928 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
11929 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
11930 rebuild our server descriptor.
11932 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11933 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
11934 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
11935 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
11936 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
11937 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
11938 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
11939 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
11940 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
11941 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
11943 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
11944 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
11945 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
11946 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
11947 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
11948 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
11949 then be flexible about families.
11952 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
11953 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
11954 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
11958 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
11959 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
11960 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
11961 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
11962 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
11965 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
11966 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
11967 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
11968 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
11969 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11972 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
11973 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
11975 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
11976 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
11977 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
11978 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
11979 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
11980 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
11981 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11983 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
11984 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
11985 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
11986 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
11989 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
11990 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
11993 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
11994 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
11995 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11998 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
11999 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
12000 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
12001 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
12002 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
12003 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
12004 addresses many more minor issues.
12006 o New directory authorities:
12007 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
12010 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
12011 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
12012 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
12013 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
12015 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
12016 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
12017 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
12018 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
12019 and are reaching it.
12020 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
12021 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
12022 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
12023 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
12024 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
12025 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
12028 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
12029 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
12031 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
12032 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
12033 no longer work for clients.
12034 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12035 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
12037 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
12038 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
12039 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
12040 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
12041 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
12042 enough directory information to build a circuit.
12043 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
12044 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
12045 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
12046 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
12047 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
12048 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
12050 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
12051 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
12052 requests for all of them.
12053 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
12055 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
12056 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
12057 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
12059 o New requirements:
12060 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
12061 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
12065 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
12066 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
12067 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
12068 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
12069 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
12070 networkstatuses that we already have.
12071 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
12072 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
12073 we start knowing some directory caches.
12074 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
12075 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
12076 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
12077 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
12078 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
12079 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
12080 Good in combination with --hash-password.
12081 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
12082 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
12084 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
12085 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
12086 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
12088 o Minor features (bridges):
12089 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
12090 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
12091 back to trying the bridge directly.
12092 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
12093 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
12095 o Minor features (controller):
12096 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
12097 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
12098 report the value as a "minimum skew."
12101 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
12102 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
12106 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
12107 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
12108 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
12109 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
12110 reported by tup and ioerror.
12111 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
12112 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
12114 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12115 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
12117 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
12118 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
12119 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
12121 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
12122 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12123 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
12124 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12125 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
12126 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12127 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
12129 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
12130 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
12131 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12133 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
12134 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
12135 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
12136 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
12137 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
12140 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
12141 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
12142 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
12143 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
12144 lists for a few hours each day.
12146 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12147 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
12148 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
12149 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
12150 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
12151 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12152 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
12153 rend_process_relay_cell().
12155 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12156 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
12157 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
12158 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
12159 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
12160 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
12161 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
12162 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
12164 o Major bugfixes (other):
12165 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
12166 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
12167 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
12168 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
12169 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
12170 circuit cannibalization).
12171 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
12172 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
12173 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
12174 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
12175 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
12176 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
12179 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
12180 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
12182 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
12183 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
12184 absent. Resolves bug 467.
12185 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
12186 a way to trigger this remotely.)
12187 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
12188 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
12189 were reporting the dir port.)
12190 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
12191 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
12192 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
12193 the future. Fixes bug 434.
12194 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
12196 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
12197 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
12198 the onion key from getting rotated.
12199 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
12200 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
12201 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
12202 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
12203 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
12204 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
12205 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
12206 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12207 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
12210 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
12211 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
12212 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
12213 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
12214 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
12215 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
12217 o Major features (directory system):
12218 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
12219 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
12220 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
12221 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
12222 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
12223 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
12224 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
12225 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
12226 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
12227 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
12228 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
12229 Partially implements proposal 122.
12230 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
12231 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
12234 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
12235 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
12236 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
12237 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
12239 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
12240 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
12241 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
12242 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
12243 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
12244 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12245 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
12246 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
12247 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12249 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
12250 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
12252 - Allow certificates to include an address.
12253 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
12254 and download operations.
12255 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
12256 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
12257 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
12258 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
12259 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
12260 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
12262 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
12263 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
12266 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
12267 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
12268 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
12269 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
12271 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
12272 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
12273 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
12275 o Minor features (performance):
12276 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
12277 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
12278 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
12279 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
12280 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
12281 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
12282 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
12285 o Minor features (compilation):
12286 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
12287 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
12289 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
12290 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
12291 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
12292 stick around indefinitely.
12293 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
12295 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
12296 v3 directory authority.
12297 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
12298 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
12300 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
12301 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
12302 "moria on moria:9031."
12303 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
12304 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
12305 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
12306 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
12307 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
12308 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
12309 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
12310 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
12312 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
12313 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
12314 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
12315 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
12316 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
12317 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
12318 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
12319 downloads than for other types.
12321 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
12322 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
12324 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
12325 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
12326 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12328 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12329 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
12330 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12331 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
12332 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
12333 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
12334 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
12335 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
12337 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12338 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
12339 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
12340 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
12341 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12342 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
12343 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
12344 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12345 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
12346 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
12347 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
12349 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
12350 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
12353 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12354 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
12355 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
12356 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
12357 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
12358 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
12359 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
12360 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
12361 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
12362 so that they all take the same named flags.
12365 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
12366 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
12367 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
12370 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
12371 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
12372 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
12373 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
12374 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
12375 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
12377 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
12378 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
12379 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
12380 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
12381 annotations along with descriptors.
12382 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
12383 source, and its purpose.
12384 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
12386 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
12387 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
12388 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
12389 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
12392 o Major features (directory authorities):
12393 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
12395 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
12396 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
12397 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
12398 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
12399 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
12400 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
12402 o Major features (v3 directory system):
12403 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
12404 and download the descriptors listed in them.
12405 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
12406 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
12407 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
12409 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12410 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
12411 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
12412 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
12415 o Major bugfixes (performance):
12416 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
12417 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
12418 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
12419 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
12421 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
12422 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
12423 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
12424 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
12425 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
12426 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
12428 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
12429 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
12431 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
12432 certificate is requested.
12433 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
12434 certificate requests.
12436 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
12437 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
12438 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
12439 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
12442 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12443 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
12444 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
12445 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12447 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
12448 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
12450 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
12451 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
12452 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12453 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
12454 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
12455 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
12456 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
12457 downloads more sensible.
12458 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
12459 another when serving certificates.
12461 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12462 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
12463 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
12464 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
12466 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
12467 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12468 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
12470 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
12471 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12473 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12474 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
12475 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
12476 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
12477 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12479 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
12480 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
12481 WARN-severity events.
12482 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
12483 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
12484 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
12486 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
12487 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
12488 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
12490 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
12491 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
12492 circuit cannibalization).
12494 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12495 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
12496 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
12497 new module, networkstatus.c.
12498 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
12499 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
12500 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
12501 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
12502 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
12503 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
12504 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
12505 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
12506 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
12508 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
12510 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
12511 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12514 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
12515 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
12516 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
12517 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
12519 o New directory authorities:
12520 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
12521 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
12523 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12524 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
12525 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12527 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
12528 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
12529 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
12530 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
12531 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
12532 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
12533 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
12534 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
12535 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
12536 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
12537 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12539 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12540 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
12541 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
12542 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
12543 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
12544 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
12545 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
12546 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
12547 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
12549 o Minor features (security):
12550 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
12551 address maps to an internal address space.
12552 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
12553 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
12555 o Minor features (guard nodes):
12556 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
12557 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
12558 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
12559 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
12561 o Minor features (speed):
12562 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
12563 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
12564 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
12565 on big-endian hosts.)
12567 o Minor features (controller):
12568 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
12569 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
12570 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
12571 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
12574 o Removed features:
12575 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
12576 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
12577 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
12578 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
12579 implementation of proposal 104.
12580 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
12581 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
12582 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
12583 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
12584 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
12585 patch from Karsten Loesing.
12586 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
12587 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
12590 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
12591 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
12592 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12593 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
12594 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12595 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
12596 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12597 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
12598 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
12599 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12600 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
12601 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
12602 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
12603 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12604 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
12605 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
12606 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
12607 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12608 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
12609 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
12611 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12612 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
12613 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
12615 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
12616 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
12617 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
12618 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
12621 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
12622 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
12623 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
12624 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
12625 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
12628 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
12629 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
12632 o Major bugfixes (security):
12633 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
12634 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
12635 become more of a headache than it's worth.
12637 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
12638 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
12639 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
12641 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
12642 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
12643 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
12644 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
12645 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
12646 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
12648 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
12649 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
12650 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
12651 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
12652 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
12654 o Minor features (controller):
12655 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
12656 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
12657 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
12658 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
12660 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12661 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
12662 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
12663 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
12664 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
12665 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
12666 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
12667 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
12669 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12670 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
12671 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
12672 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
12673 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
12674 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
12675 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
12676 if we ran off the end of the list.
12677 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
12678 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
12679 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
12680 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
12681 every time we change any piece of our config.
12682 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
12683 encourage people using them to stop.
12684 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
12686 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
12687 servers to choose a circuit.
12688 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
12689 unparseable piece of it.
12692 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
12693 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
12694 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
12695 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
12698 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
12699 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
12700 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
12701 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
12702 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
12704 o New directory authorities:
12705 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
12708 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
12709 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
12710 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
12711 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
12713 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
12714 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
12715 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
12717 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
12718 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
12719 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
12720 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
12721 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
12722 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
12724 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
12725 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
12726 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12729 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
12730 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
12731 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
12732 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
12736 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
12737 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
12738 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
12739 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
12741 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
12742 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
12744 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
12745 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
12746 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
12747 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
12748 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
12749 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
12750 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12751 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
12752 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12753 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
12756 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
12757 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
12758 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
12759 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
12760 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
12761 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
12763 o Removed features:
12764 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
12765 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
12766 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
12767 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
12770 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
12771 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
12772 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
12773 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
12774 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
12777 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
12778 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
12779 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
12780 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
12781 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
12782 reported by lodger.
12784 o Minor features (directory servers):
12785 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
12786 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
12788 o Minor features (directory voting):
12789 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
12792 o Minor features (security):
12793 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
12794 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
12795 encourage people using them to stop.
12797 o Minor features (controller):
12798 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
12799 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
12800 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
12801 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
12802 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
12803 cookie authentication file, and config option
12804 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
12806 o Minor features (unit testing):
12807 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
12808 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
12809 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
12810 logging for the unit tests.
12812 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12813 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
12814 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
12815 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
12816 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
12817 every time we change any piece of our config.
12818 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
12819 the future. Fixes bug 434.
12820 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
12822 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
12823 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
12824 the onion key from getting rotated.
12825 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
12826 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
12827 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
12830 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12831 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
12832 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
12834 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
12835 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
12836 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
12837 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
12840 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
12841 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
12842 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
12843 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
12844 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
12845 TorK, etc. Or worse.
12847 o Major security fixes:
12848 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
12849 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
12852 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
12853 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
12854 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
12855 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
12857 o Major security fixes:
12858 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
12859 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
12861 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12862 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
12865 o Minor features (performance):
12866 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
12867 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
12868 performance-intensive.
12869 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
12870 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
12871 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
12872 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
12873 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
12874 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
12878 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
12879 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
12880 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
12881 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
12885 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
12886 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
12887 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
12888 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
12889 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
12891 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
12892 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
12893 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
12894 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
12896 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
12897 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
12898 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
12899 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
12900 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
12902 o Major features (experimental):
12903 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
12904 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
12905 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
12906 handling before it's ready for use.
12909 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
12910 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
12911 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
12912 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12913 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
12914 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
12916 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
12917 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
12918 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
12919 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
12920 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
12922 o Major bugfixes (directory):
12923 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
12924 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12926 o Minor features (controller):
12927 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
12928 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12929 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
12930 from Robert Hogan.)
12931 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
12932 from Robert Hogan.)
12933 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
12934 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
12936 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
12937 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
12938 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
12939 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
12940 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12941 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
12942 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
12945 o Minor features (misc):
12946 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
12948 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
12949 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
12950 the authority identity key.
12951 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
12953 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
12954 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
12955 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
12958 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
12959 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
12960 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
12961 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
12962 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
12963 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
12964 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
12965 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12967 o Performance improvements:
12968 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
12970 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
12971 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
12974 o Deprecated and removed features:
12975 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
12976 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
12977 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
12978 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
12980 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12981 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
12982 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12983 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
12984 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
12985 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12986 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
12987 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
12988 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
12991 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
12992 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
12993 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12994 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
12995 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
12997 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
12998 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
13001 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13002 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
13003 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
13004 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
13005 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
13006 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
13007 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
13008 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
13009 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
13012 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
13013 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
13014 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
13015 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
13017 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
13018 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
13020 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13021 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
13022 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
13023 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
13024 routerlist while inserting a new router.
13025 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
13026 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
13028 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
13029 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
13030 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
13032 o Major bugfixes (security):
13033 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
13035 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
13036 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
13037 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
13038 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
13039 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
13040 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
13041 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
13042 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
13043 guard list unless we need to.
13045 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
13046 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
13047 don't get overused as guards.
13049 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13050 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
13051 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
13052 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
13053 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
13055 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13056 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
13057 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
13060 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13061 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
13062 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
13063 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
13064 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
13065 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
13066 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
13067 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
13070 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
13071 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
13072 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
13073 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
13075 o Minor features (directory):
13076 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
13077 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
13078 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
13079 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
13081 o Minor build issues:
13082 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
13083 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
13084 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
13085 in the tarball, not as "x".
13088 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
13089 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
13090 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
13091 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
13092 forward on a lot of fronts.
13094 o Major features, server usability:
13095 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
13096 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
13097 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
13098 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
13100 o Major features, client usability:
13101 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
13102 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
13103 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
13104 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
13105 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
13106 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
13107 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
13108 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
13110 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
13111 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
13112 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
13113 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
13114 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
13115 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
13117 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
13118 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
13119 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
13121 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
13122 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
13123 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
13124 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
13125 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
13127 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
13128 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
13129 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
13130 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
13132 o Major features, other:
13133 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
13134 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
13135 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
13136 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
13137 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
13140 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
13141 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
13142 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
13145 o Minor fixes (resource management):
13146 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
13147 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
13148 our allocated connection limit.
13149 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
13150 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
13151 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
13152 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
13153 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
13155 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
13156 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
13157 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
13159 o Minor features (build):
13160 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
13161 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
13162 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
13163 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
13165 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
13166 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
13167 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
13168 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
13169 Use this version consistently in log messages.
13171 o Minor features (logging):
13172 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
13173 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
13174 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
13175 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
13176 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
13179 o Minor features (directory system):
13180 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
13181 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
13182 not to serve V2 directory information.
13183 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
13184 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
13185 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
13187 o Minor features (controller):
13188 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
13189 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
13191 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
13192 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
13193 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
13194 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
13195 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
13196 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
13198 o Minor features (hidden services):
13199 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
13200 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
13201 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
13202 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
13204 o Minor features (other):
13206 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
13207 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
13208 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
13209 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
13210 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
13211 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
13212 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
13213 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
13214 longer a completely silly thing to do.
13215 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
13216 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
13217 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
13218 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
13220 o Removed features:
13221 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
13222 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
13223 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
13224 back an error and close the connection.
13225 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
13226 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
13229 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13230 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
13231 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
13232 makes the log messages nicer.
13233 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
13234 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
13235 partial results on small file reads.
13237 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
13238 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
13239 more often than they are allowed to appear.
13240 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
13241 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
13243 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13244 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
13245 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
13246 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
13248 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13249 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
13250 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
13251 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
13252 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
13253 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
13254 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
13255 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
13256 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
13257 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
13258 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
13260 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
13261 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
13262 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
13264 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
13265 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
13266 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
13267 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
13269 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13270 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
13271 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
13273 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
13274 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
13277 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13278 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
13279 implicit in other procedure arguments.
13280 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
13281 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
13282 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
13283 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
13284 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
13285 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
13286 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
13287 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
13288 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
13291 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
13292 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
13293 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
13294 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
13296 o Directory authority changes:
13297 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
13298 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
13299 or use hidden services.
13301 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13302 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
13303 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
13304 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
13305 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
13306 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
13307 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
13308 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
13309 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
13312 o Major bugfixes (security):
13313 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
13314 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
13315 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
13317 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
13318 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
13319 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
13320 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
13321 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
13322 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
13323 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
13324 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
13325 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
13326 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
13329 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
13330 purpose=controller.
13331 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
13332 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
13334 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
13335 having a hard time downloading.
13336 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
13337 partial results on small file reads.
13338 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
13339 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
13340 the gaps in the store get very large.
13343 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
13344 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
13346 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
13347 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
13350 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
13351 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
13352 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
13353 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
13354 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
13355 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
13357 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
13358 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
13359 free speech on the Internet.
13362 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
13363 get one we don't recognize.
13364 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
13365 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
13368 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
13370 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
13371 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
13372 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
13373 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
13376 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
13377 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
13380 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
13381 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
13382 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
13383 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
13384 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
13385 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
13386 ask for GUARDS too.
13389 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
13390 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
13391 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
13392 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
13393 on Win98 and friends again.
13395 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13396 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
13397 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
13400 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
13401 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
13402 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
13403 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
13404 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
13405 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
13406 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
13407 and maybe also bug 397.)
13409 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13410 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
13411 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
13413 o Minor bugfixes (server):
13414 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
13417 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
13418 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
13419 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
13420 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
13421 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
13423 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13424 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
13425 load on authorities.
13427 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13428 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
13429 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
13430 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
13432 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
13434 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
13435 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
13436 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
13437 the last of bug 326.)
13438 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
13439 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
13443 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
13444 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13445 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
13446 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
13447 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
13448 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
13449 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
13451 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
13452 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
13454 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13455 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
13456 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
13458 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
13459 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
13460 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
13462 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13463 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
13464 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
13465 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
13467 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
13468 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
13470 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
13471 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
13472 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
13475 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13476 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
13477 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
13478 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
13479 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
13480 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
13481 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
13482 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
13483 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
13484 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
13485 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
13486 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
13487 other than file-not-found.
13488 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
13489 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
13490 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
13491 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
13492 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
13493 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
13494 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
13495 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
13496 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
13497 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
13498 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
13499 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
13500 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
13501 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
13502 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
13504 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
13506 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
13507 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
13509 o Minor features (controller):
13510 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
13511 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
13512 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
13514 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
13515 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
13516 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
13517 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
13518 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
13519 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
13520 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
13521 connected or resolved cell.
13523 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13524 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
13525 some profiles, but not others.)
13526 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
13527 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
13528 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
13531 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
13533 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
13534 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
13535 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
13536 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
13537 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
13538 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
13539 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
13540 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
13541 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
13542 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
13543 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
13544 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
13545 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
13546 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
13547 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
13549 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
13552 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
13553 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
13554 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
13555 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
13556 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
13557 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
13558 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
13560 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
13561 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
13562 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
13563 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
13564 buckets go absurdly negative.
13565 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
13566 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
13569 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
13570 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
13571 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
13572 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
13573 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
13574 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
13575 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
13576 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
13579 o Major bugfixes (other):
13580 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
13581 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
13582 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
13583 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
13585 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
13587 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
13588 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
13590 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
13591 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
13592 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
13593 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
13594 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
13595 to wait for 0.2.0.)
13597 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
13598 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
13599 possible memory-stomping bugs.
13600 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
13601 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
13603 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
13604 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
13605 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
13606 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
13607 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
13608 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
13610 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13611 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
13612 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
13613 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
13615 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
13616 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
13617 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
13618 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
13619 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
13620 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
13621 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
13622 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
13623 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
13624 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
13625 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
13626 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
13627 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
13629 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
13630 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
13631 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
13632 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
13633 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
13634 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
13635 to the resulting address.
13638 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
13639 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
13640 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
13641 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
13644 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
13645 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
13647 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
13648 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
13649 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
13650 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
13651 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
13652 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
13653 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
13654 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
13655 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
13656 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
13657 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
13658 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
13659 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
13660 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
13661 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
13662 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
13663 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
13666 o Minor features (controller):
13667 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
13668 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
13669 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
13670 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
13671 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
13672 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
13673 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
13677 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
13679 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
13680 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
13681 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
13682 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
13683 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
13684 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
13687 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
13688 weren't planning to resolve.
13689 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
13690 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
13691 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
13692 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
13693 the controller from learning about current events.
13695 o Minor features (more controller status events):
13696 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
13697 learn when our address changes.
13698 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
13699 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
13700 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
13701 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
13703 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
13704 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
13705 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
13706 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
13707 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
13708 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
13709 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
13710 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
13711 are accepted by a directory.
13712 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
13713 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
13714 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
13715 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
13716 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
13718 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
13719 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
13720 about changes to DNS server status.
13722 o Minor features (directory):
13723 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
13724 too much load to the exit nodes.
13727 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
13729 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
13730 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
13731 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
13732 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
13733 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
13735 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
13736 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
13737 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
13739 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
13740 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
13741 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
13742 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
13743 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
13744 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
13745 config options if you like.
13747 o Minor features (config and docs):
13748 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
13749 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
13750 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
13751 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
13752 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
13754 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
13755 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
13756 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
13757 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
13758 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
13760 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
13761 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
13762 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
13763 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
13764 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
13765 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
13766 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
13767 documentation: "make check-docs".
13768 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
13769 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
13771 o Minor features (DNS):
13772 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
13773 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
13774 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
13775 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
13776 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
13777 our tests for DNS hijacking.
13779 o Minor features (directory):
13780 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
13781 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
13782 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
13783 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
13784 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
13785 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
13786 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
13787 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
13788 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
13789 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
13790 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
13791 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
13792 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
13793 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
13794 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
13795 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
13796 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
13797 for the thing we're trying to download.
13798 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
13799 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
13800 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
13802 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
13803 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
13804 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
13807 o Minor features (controller):
13808 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
13809 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
13811 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
13812 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
13813 entry guard status as it changes.
13815 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
13816 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
13817 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
13818 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
13819 to set log options.
13820 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
13821 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
13822 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
13823 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
13826 o Major bugfixes (security):
13827 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
13828 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
13829 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
13830 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
13832 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
13833 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
13834 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
13835 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
13836 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
13838 o Major bugfixes (other):
13839 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
13840 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
13841 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
13842 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
13844 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
13845 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
13846 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
13847 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
13848 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
13849 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
13853 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
13854 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
13855 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
13856 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
13857 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
13859 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
13860 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
13862 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
13863 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
13864 family lists conveniently.
13865 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
13866 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
13867 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
13869 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
13870 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
13872 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
13873 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
13874 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
13875 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
13876 if their identity keys are as expected.
13877 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
13878 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
13879 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
13881 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13882 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
13883 reported by Mike Perry.
13884 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
13885 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
13886 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
13887 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
13890 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
13891 o Security bugfixes:
13892 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
13893 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
13894 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
13895 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
13899 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
13900 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
13901 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
13904 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
13906 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
13907 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
13908 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
13911 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
13912 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
13913 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
13914 watching for STREAM events.
13915 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
13916 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
13917 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
13918 operations, for profiling.
13921 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
13922 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
13923 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
13924 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
13925 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
13926 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
13928 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
13932 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
13933 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
13934 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
13935 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
13936 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
13938 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
13939 correctly in the Windows installer.
13940 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
13941 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
13942 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
13943 MIPSpro C compiler.
13944 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
13945 when we're running as a client.
13948 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
13950 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
13951 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
13952 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
13953 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
13954 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
13955 its circuits on demand.
13956 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
13957 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
13958 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
13959 connections more stable on average.
13960 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
13961 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
13962 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
13964 o Security bugfixes:
13965 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
13966 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
13969 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
13971 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
13972 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
13973 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
13974 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
13975 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
13976 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
13977 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
13978 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
13981 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
13983 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
13984 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
13985 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
13986 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
13987 routers for even longer.
13988 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
13989 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
13990 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
13991 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
13992 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
13993 caching HTTP proxies.
13994 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
13997 o Minor features, controller:
13998 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
13999 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
14000 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
14001 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
14003 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
14004 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
14005 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
14006 working much like those for circuit events.
14007 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
14008 about the current status of a router.
14009 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
14010 a router's status has changed.
14011 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
14012 can tell which events and features are supported.
14013 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
14014 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
14016 o Security bugfixes:
14017 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
14018 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
14021 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
14022 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
14023 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
14024 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
14025 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
14026 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
14027 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
14028 long nicknames where appropriate.
14029 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
14030 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
14031 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
14032 chews through many circuits before giving up.
14033 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
14034 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
14035 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
14036 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
14037 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
14038 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
14040 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
14041 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
14042 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
14044 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
14045 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
14046 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
14047 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
14048 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
14049 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
14050 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
14051 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
14052 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
14053 (reported by fookoowa).
14054 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
14055 and reported by some Centos users.
14056 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
14057 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
14058 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
14059 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
14060 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
14061 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
14062 before we check for libevent.
14065 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
14067 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
14068 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
14069 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
14070 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
14071 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
14072 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
14073 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
14074 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
14075 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
14076 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
14077 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
14078 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
14079 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
14080 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
14081 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
14082 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
14083 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
14084 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
14085 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
14086 lets you turn it off.
14087 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
14088 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
14089 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
14090 us into the directory more quickly.
14092 o New/improved config options:
14093 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
14094 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
14095 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
14096 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
14097 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
14098 all the machines on the same subnet.
14099 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
14100 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
14101 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
14102 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
14103 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
14104 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
14105 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
14106 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
14107 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
14108 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
14110 o Minor features, controller:
14111 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
14112 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
14113 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
14114 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
14115 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
14116 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
14117 for more information.
14118 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
14119 best guess to the user.
14120 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
14121 descriptor has changed.
14122 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
14124 o Minor features, other:
14125 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
14126 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
14127 useful to the network.
14128 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
14129 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
14130 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
14131 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
14132 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
14133 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
14134 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
14135 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
14136 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
14137 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
14138 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
14139 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
14140 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
14141 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
14142 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
14144 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
14145 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
14146 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
14147 could return an unnamed server instead.
14148 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
14149 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
14150 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
14151 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
14152 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
14153 a more attractive target for compromise.)
14154 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
14155 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
14156 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
14158 o Major bugfixes, other:
14159 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
14160 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
14161 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
14162 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
14163 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
14164 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
14165 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
14166 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
14167 its circuits on demand.
14168 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
14169 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
14170 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
14171 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
14173 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
14174 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
14175 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
14176 we don't recognize.
14177 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
14179 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
14180 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
14181 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
14182 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
14183 "extendcircuit" request.
14184 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
14185 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
14186 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
14188 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
14189 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
14190 instead of "X resolved to X".
14191 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
14192 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
14193 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
14194 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
14195 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
14196 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
14197 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
14198 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
14199 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
14201 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
14202 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
14203 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
14204 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
14205 result more than once.
14206 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
14207 non-versioning dirservers.
14208 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
14209 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
14211 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
14212 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
14213 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
14214 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
14215 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
14216 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
14217 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
14218 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
14219 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
14221 o Packaging, features:
14222 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
14223 now universal binaries.
14224 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
14225 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
14226 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
14228 o Packaging, bugfixes:
14229 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
14230 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
14231 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
14232 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
14234 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
14235 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
14236 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
14239 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
14240 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
14241 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
14245 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
14247 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
14248 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
14249 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
14250 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
14251 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
14252 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
14253 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
14254 it can't resolve its hostname.
14257 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
14258 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
14259 "extendcircuit" request.
14260 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
14261 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
14262 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
14263 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
14265 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
14266 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
14267 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
14269 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
14270 methods: these are known to be buggy.
14271 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
14272 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
14273 we don't recognize.
14276 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
14278 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
14279 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
14280 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
14281 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
14282 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
14283 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
14284 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
14285 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
14286 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
14287 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
14288 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
14289 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
14290 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
14291 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
14292 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
14293 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
14294 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
14295 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
14296 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
14297 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
14298 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
14299 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
14300 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
14301 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
14304 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
14305 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
14306 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
14307 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
14308 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
14309 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
14310 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
14311 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
14312 recommendation system saner.)
14313 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
14315 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
14316 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
14317 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
14318 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
14319 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
14320 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
14321 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
14322 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
14323 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
14324 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
14325 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
14326 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
14327 your ORPort is set.
14328 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
14329 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
14330 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
14331 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
14332 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
14333 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
14334 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
14335 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
14336 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
14337 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
14338 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
14339 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
14341 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
14342 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
14343 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
14344 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
14345 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
14346 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
14349 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
14350 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
14351 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
14352 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
14353 our DirPort now, etc.
14354 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
14355 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
14356 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
14357 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
14358 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
14359 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
14360 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
14362 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
14363 whether the config options are bad or good.
14364 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
14365 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
14366 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
14367 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
14368 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
14369 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
14370 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
14371 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
14374 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
14375 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
14376 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
14377 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
14378 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
14379 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
14380 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
14381 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
14382 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
14383 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
14384 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
14385 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
14386 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
14387 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
14388 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
14389 of it), is not therefore "up".
14390 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
14391 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
14392 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
14393 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
14394 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
14395 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
14398 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
14400 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
14401 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
14402 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
14403 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
14404 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
14405 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
14406 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
14407 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
14408 test reachability, so you won't publish.
14411 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
14412 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
14413 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
14414 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
14415 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
14417 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
14418 own server descriptor yet.
14421 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
14423 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
14424 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
14425 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
14426 make sure to test via one of these.
14427 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
14428 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
14429 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
14430 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
14431 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
14433 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
14434 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
14435 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
14438 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
14439 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
14440 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
14441 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
14442 directory authority.
14443 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
14444 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
14445 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
14446 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
14449 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
14450 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
14451 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
14453 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
14454 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
14455 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
14456 current guards when picking a new guard.
14457 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
14458 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
14459 when we had more than one pending.
14460 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
14461 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
14462 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
14463 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
14464 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
14465 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
14466 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
14467 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
14468 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
14469 debug the reachability problems better.
14471 o Log / documentation fixes:
14472 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
14473 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
14474 about protocol violations by others.
14475 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
14476 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
14477 about what happened to our old torrc.
14480 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
14482 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
14484 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
14485 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
14486 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
14487 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
14490 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
14492 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
14493 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
14494 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
14495 old ORPort and receive connections.
14496 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
14498 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
14499 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
14500 and network-statuses.
14501 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
14502 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
14503 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
14504 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
14506 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
14509 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
14510 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
14511 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
14514 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
14516 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
14517 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
14518 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
14519 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
14520 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
14523 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
14524 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
14526 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
14527 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
14528 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
14529 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
14530 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
14531 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
14532 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
14533 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
14534 rather than not sending anything back at all.
14535 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
14536 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
14537 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
14538 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
14539 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
14540 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
14541 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
14542 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
14543 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
14544 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
14545 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
14546 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
14547 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
14548 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
14549 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
14550 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
14551 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
14552 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
14553 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
14554 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
14555 default ulimit -n is 1024.
14558 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
14559 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
14560 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
14561 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
14564 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
14566 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
14567 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
14568 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
14569 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
14570 entry guards running these flawed versions.
14571 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
14572 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
14573 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
14574 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
14575 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
14578 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
14579 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
14581 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
14582 and it is confusing some users.
14583 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
14584 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
14585 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
14586 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
14587 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
14590 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
14592 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
14593 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
14594 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
14595 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
14596 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
14597 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
14598 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
14599 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
14600 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
14601 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
14602 dirport is set for now.
14604 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
14605 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
14606 unattached before we fail it?
14607 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
14608 at least this many seconds ago.
14609 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
14610 at least this many seconds ago.
14613 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
14614 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
14615 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
14616 or resolve-wait stream.
14617 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
14618 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
14619 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
14620 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
14621 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
14622 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
14623 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
14624 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
14626 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
14627 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
14628 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
14629 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
14630 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
14631 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
14632 given as hex digests.
14633 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
14634 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
14635 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
14636 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
14637 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
14638 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
14639 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
14640 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
14643 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14644 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
14645 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
14646 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
14647 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
14648 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
14649 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
14650 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
14651 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
14652 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
14653 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
14656 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
14657 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
14658 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
14659 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
14660 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
14661 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
14662 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
14665 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
14666 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
14667 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
14668 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
14669 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
14670 misreading their logs.
14671 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
14672 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
14673 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
14674 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
14675 valid router descriptors.
14676 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
14677 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
14678 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
14679 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
14680 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
14681 silently resetting it to its default.
14682 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
14684 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
14687 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
14688 use clean circuits.
14689 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
14690 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
14691 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
14692 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
14693 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
14695 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
14696 because older Tors do not understand it.
14697 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
14701 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
14702 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14703 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
14704 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
14705 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
14706 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
14707 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
14708 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
14709 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
14710 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
14711 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
14713 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
14714 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
14715 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
14716 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
14718 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
14719 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
14722 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
14723 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
14724 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
14725 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
14726 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
14727 without getting overloaded.
14728 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
14730 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
14731 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
14732 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
14733 be forward-compatible.
14734 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
14735 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
14736 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
14737 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
14739 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
14740 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
14741 and OR conns to port 443.
14742 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
14743 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
14745 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
14746 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
14747 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
14748 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
14749 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
14750 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
14751 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
14754 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
14755 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14756 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
14757 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
14759 o Other important bugfixes:
14760 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
14761 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
14762 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
14763 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
14765 o Backported features:
14766 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
14767 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
14768 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
14769 without getting overloaded.
14770 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
14771 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
14772 503's whenever they feel busy.
14773 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
14774 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
14775 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
14776 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
14777 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
14780 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
14781 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
14782 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
14783 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
14784 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
14785 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
14786 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
14787 know if the crashes continue.
14788 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
14789 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
14790 seg faults in at least some cases.)
14791 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
14792 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
14793 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
14796 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
14797 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
14798 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
14799 try to be a bit more fair.
14800 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
14801 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
14802 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
14803 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
14804 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
14805 bug that let it go negative.
14806 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
14807 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
14808 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
14809 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
14810 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
14811 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
14812 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
14813 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
14814 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
14815 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
14816 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
14819 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
14821 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
14822 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
14823 service descriptors.
14826 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
14827 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
14828 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
14829 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
14831 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
14832 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
14833 versions *are* still recommended.
14834 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
14835 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
14836 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
14837 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
14838 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
14839 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
14840 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
14841 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
14843 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
14844 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
14845 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
14846 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
14847 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
14848 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
14849 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
14850 on it. Not used by clients yet.
14851 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
14852 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
14853 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
14854 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
14855 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
14856 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
14857 established a circuit.
14858 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
14859 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
14860 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
14861 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
14864 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
14865 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14866 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
14867 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
14868 quickly enough. Oops.
14869 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
14871 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14872 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
14875 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
14876 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
14877 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
14878 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
14879 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
14880 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
14881 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
14882 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
14883 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
14884 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
14885 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
14886 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
14887 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
14888 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
14889 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
14890 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
14891 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
14894 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
14895 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
14896 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
14897 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
14898 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
14899 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
14900 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
14901 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
14902 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
14903 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
14904 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
14905 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
14906 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
14907 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
14908 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
14909 connections more reliable.
14912 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
14913 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
14914 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
14915 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
14916 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
14917 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
14918 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
14919 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
14920 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
14921 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
14922 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
14923 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
14924 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
14925 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
14929 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
14930 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
14931 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
14932 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
14933 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
14934 need to be uint64_t's.
14935 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
14936 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
14937 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
14939 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
14941 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
14942 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
14943 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
14944 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
14945 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
14946 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
14947 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
14949 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
14950 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
14951 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
14952 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
14953 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
14954 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
14955 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
14956 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
14957 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
14958 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
14959 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
14960 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
14961 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
14964 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
14965 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
14966 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
14967 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
14968 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
14969 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
14970 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
14972 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
14973 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
14974 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
14975 can answer v2 directory requests too.
14976 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
14977 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
14978 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
14979 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
14981 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
14982 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
14983 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
14984 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
14985 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
14986 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
14987 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
14988 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
14989 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
14990 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
14991 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
14992 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
14993 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
14994 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
14995 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
14997 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
14998 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
15001 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
15002 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15003 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
15004 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
15005 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
15006 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
15007 too -- so detect and avoid this.
15008 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
15010 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
15011 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
15012 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
15013 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
15014 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
15015 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
15016 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
15017 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
15018 rendezvous circuits.
15019 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
15021 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15022 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
15023 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
15024 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
15025 advertising it because of hibernation.
15026 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
15027 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
15028 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
15029 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
15030 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
15031 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
15032 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
15033 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
15034 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
15035 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
15036 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
15037 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
15038 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
15039 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
15042 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
15043 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15044 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
15045 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
15046 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
15047 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
15048 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
15049 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
15050 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
15051 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
15052 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
15053 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
15054 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
15055 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
15056 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
15057 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
15058 connections once a week.
15059 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
15060 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
15061 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
15062 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
15063 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
15064 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
15066 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
15067 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
15068 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
15070 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15071 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
15072 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
15073 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
15074 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
15075 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
15076 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
15077 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
15078 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
15079 firewall options forbid.
15080 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
15081 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
15082 can only proxy to certain destinations.
15083 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
15084 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
15085 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
15086 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
15087 aids some statistical attacks.
15088 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
15089 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
15090 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
15091 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
15093 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15094 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
15095 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
15096 server descriptor sometimes.
15097 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
15098 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
15099 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
15100 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
15101 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
15102 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
15103 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
15104 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
15106 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
15107 case the controller wants to change that too.
15108 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
15109 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
15110 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
15111 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
15113 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
15114 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
15115 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
15117 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
15118 descriptors that they know they will reject.
15120 o Features and updates:
15121 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
15122 significantly faster.
15123 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
15124 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
15125 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
15126 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
15127 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
15128 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
15129 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
15130 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
15131 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
15132 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
15133 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
15134 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
15135 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
15136 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
15137 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
15138 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
15139 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
15140 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
15141 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
15142 as authoritative dirserver.
15143 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
15144 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
15145 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
15148 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
15149 o Usability improvements:
15150 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
15151 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
15153 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
15154 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
15155 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
15157 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
15158 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
15159 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
15160 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
15161 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
15162 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
15163 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
15164 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
15165 memory leaks better.
15166 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
15167 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
15168 their operators to pay close attention.
15169 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
15170 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
15172 o Performance improvements:
15173 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
15174 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
15175 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
15176 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
15177 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
15178 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
15179 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
15180 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
15181 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
15182 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
15183 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
15184 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
15185 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
15186 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
15187 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
15188 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
15189 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
15191 o Security improvements:
15192 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
15193 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
15194 fingerprint of server.
15195 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
15196 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
15197 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
15199 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15200 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
15201 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
15202 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
15203 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
15204 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
15205 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
15206 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
15207 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
15208 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
15209 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
15210 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
15211 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
15212 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
15213 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
15214 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
15215 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
15216 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
15217 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
15218 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
15219 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
15221 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
15222 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
15223 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
15225 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
15226 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
15228 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
15229 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
15230 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
15231 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
15232 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
15233 of the controller protocol.
15234 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
15235 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
15236 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
15239 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
15240 o New features (major):
15241 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
15242 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
15243 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
15244 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
15245 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
15246 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
15247 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
15248 we're using a default DirPort.
15249 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
15251 o New features (minor):
15252 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
15253 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
15254 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
15255 mirrors still cache and serve it).
15256 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
15257 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
15258 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
15259 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
15260 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
15261 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
15262 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
15263 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
15264 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
15265 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
15266 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
15267 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
15268 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
15269 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
15270 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
15272 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
15273 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
15274 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
15275 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
15276 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
15277 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
15278 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
15279 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
15281 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
15282 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
15283 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
15284 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
15285 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
15286 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
15287 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
15288 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
15289 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
15290 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
15292 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
15293 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
15294 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
15295 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
15296 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
15298 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
15299 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
15300 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
15302 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
15303 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
15305 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
15306 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
15307 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
15308 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
15309 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
15310 don't warn twice about the same name.
15311 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
15312 if we've not heard of the server.
15313 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
15314 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
15317 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
15318 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15319 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
15320 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
15321 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
15322 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
15323 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
15324 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
15325 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
15326 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
15327 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
15328 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
15329 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
15330 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
15331 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
15334 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
15335 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
15336 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
15337 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
15338 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
15340 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
15341 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
15342 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
15343 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
15344 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
15345 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
15349 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
15350 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
15351 nickname) is reachable by you.
15352 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
15355 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
15356 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
15357 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
15358 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
15359 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
15360 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
15361 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
15362 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
15363 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
15364 we fail to connect).
15365 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
15366 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
15367 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
15368 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
15370 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
15371 it was self-testing that told us so.
15374 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
15375 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
15376 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
15377 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
15378 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
15379 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
15380 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
15381 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
15382 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
15383 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
15384 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
15385 exit policy using him for any exits.
15386 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
15389 o New controller features/fixes:
15390 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
15391 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
15392 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
15393 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
15394 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
15395 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
15396 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
15397 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
15398 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
15400 o Start on the new directory design:
15401 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
15402 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
15404 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
15405 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
15406 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
15407 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
15409 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
15410 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
15411 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
15412 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
15413 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
15414 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
15415 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
15416 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
15419 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
15420 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
15421 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
15422 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
15423 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
15424 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
15425 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
15426 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
15427 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
15428 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
15430 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
15431 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
15432 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
15433 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
15434 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
15435 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
15436 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
15437 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
15438 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
15440 o Config option changes:
15441 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
15442 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
15443 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
15444 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
15445 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
15446 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
15448 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
15449 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
15450 people have started using them for spam too.
15451 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
15452 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
15453 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
15454 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
15455 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
15456 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
15457 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
15458 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
15459 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
15460 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
15461 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
15462 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
15463 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
15464 services faster on the service end.
15465 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
15466 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
15467 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
15468 it a fair shake next time we try.
15469 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
15470 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
15471 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
15472 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
15473 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
15474 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
15475 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
15476 able to discover them.
15477 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
15478 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
15479 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
15480 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
15481 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
15482 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
15483 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
15484 testing for reachability.
15485 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
15486 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
15488 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
15490 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
15491 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
15494 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
15495 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
15497 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15498 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
15499 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
15500 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
15503 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
15504 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15505 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
15507 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
15508 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
15511 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
15512 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
15515 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
15516 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
15517 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
15518 options, getinfo keys.
15521 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
15522 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15523 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
15524 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
15525 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
15526 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
15527 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
15529 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
15530 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
15534 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
15535 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
15536 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
15538 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
15540 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
15541 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
15542 circuit events and we go offline.
15543 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
15544 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
15545 you don't have enough intro points already.
15547 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
15548 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
15549 many bytes we've used in this time period.
15550 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
15551 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
15552 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
15553 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
15554 enabled by default yet.
15556 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
15557 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
15558 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
15559 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
15560 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
15563 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
15564 o New directory servers:
15565 - tor26 has changed IP address.
15567 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15568 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
15569 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
15570 pthreads libraries.
15571 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
15572 claims its dirport is 0.
15573 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
15574 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
15578 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
15579 o New directory servers:
15580 - tor26 has changed IP address.
15582 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
15583 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
15585 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
15586 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
15587 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
15588 ports that have changed.
15589 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
15591 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
15592 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
15593 Windows-style errno back.
15594 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
15596 want to make it an NT service.
15597 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
15598 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
15599 name, give the full name in our response.
15600 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
15601 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
15602 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
15603 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
15604 pthreads libraries.
15606 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15607 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
15611 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
15612 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
15613 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
15614 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
15615 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
15618 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
15619 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15620 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
15621 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
15622 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
15623 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
15624 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
15625 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
15628 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
15630 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
15631 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
15632 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
15633 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
15634 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
15635 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
15637 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
15638 temporarily unreachable.
15639 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
15643 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
15644 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
15645 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
15646 our protocol works.
15647 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
15651 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
15652 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
15653 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
15654 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
15655 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
15659 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
15660 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
15661 libevent before 1.1a.
15664 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
15666 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
15667 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
15668 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
15669 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
15670 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
15672 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
15673 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
15674 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
15675 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
15676 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
15677 of CPU time plus memory.
15678 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
15679 normal web requests.
15680 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
15681 tor_lookup_hostname().
15682 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
15683 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
15684 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
15685 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
15686 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
15687 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
15689 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
15690 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
15691 HttpProxyAuthenticator
15692 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
15693 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
15694 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
15696 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
15697 the user asks you to.
15698 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
15699 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
15700 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
15701 their descriptors are being rejected.
15702 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
15706 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
15708 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
15709 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
15710 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
15712 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
15714 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
15716 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
15717 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
15718 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
15719 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
15720 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
15721 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
15722 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
15723 keys) from the exit server's process.
15724 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
15725 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
15726 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
15727 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
15728 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
15729 point at your Tor server.
15730 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
15731 you're not sending a socks reply back.
15734 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
15735 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
15736 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
15737 to make it easier to write controllers.
15740 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
15742 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
15743 installing on Tiger.
15744 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
15745 complain during installation.
15746 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
15747 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
15748 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
15749 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
15750 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
15751 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
15753 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
15754 something more reasonable when first installing.
15755 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
15758 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
15760 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
15761 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
15763 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
15764 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
15765 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
15766 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
15767 when using the default exit policy.
15768 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
15769 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
15770 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
15771 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
15772 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
15773 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
15774 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
15775 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
15776 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
15777 we fetched a new directory.
15778 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
15779 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
15782 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
15783 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
15784 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
15785 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
15786 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
15787 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
15788 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
15789 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
15791 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
15792 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
15793 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
15794 save memory on systems that need to fork.
15795 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
15796 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
15797 is valid without actually launching Tor.
15798 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
15799 rather than just rejecting it.
15802 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
15804 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
15805 we didn't like its cert.
15807 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
15808 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
15809 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
15810 on patch from Adam Langley.
15811 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
15812 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
15813 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
15814 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
15816 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
15817 directory every time you regenerate it.
15818 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
15819 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
15822 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
15823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15824 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
15825 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
15826 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
15829 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
15831 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
15832 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
15833 TLS errors better in other situations too.
15834 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
15835 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
15836 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
15837 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
15838 and don't log when you are.
15839 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
15840 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
15842 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
15843 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
15844 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
15845 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
15846 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
15849 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
15850 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
15851 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
15852 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
15853 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
15854 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
15855 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
15856 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
15857 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
15858 nickname+key are allowed.
15859 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
15860 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
15861 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
15862 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
15863 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
15864 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
15865 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
15866 have quite wrong clocks).
15867 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
15868 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
15869 - Efficiency improvements:
15870 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
15871 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
15872 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
15873 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
15874 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
15875 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
15876 lowercase and be done with it.
15877 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
15878 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
15879 to abandon partially built circuits.
15880 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
15881 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
15883 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
15885 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
15886 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
15887 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
15888 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
15890 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
15891 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
15893 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
15894 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
15895 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
15896 obeying the exit policy internally.
15897 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
15898 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
15900 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
15901 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
15902 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
15903 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
15905 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
15906 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
15907 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
15908 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
15909 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
15911 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
15912 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
15913 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
15914 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
15915 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
15916 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
15917 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
15918 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
15919 descriptors we just dropped.
15920 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
15921 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
15922 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
15923 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
15924 artificially capped at 500kB.
15927 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
15928 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15929 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
15930 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
15931 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
15932 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
15933 busy for more than 100 seconds.
15936 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
15937 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
15938 - Fixes on reachability detection:
15939 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
15940 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
15941 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
15942 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
15943 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
15944 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
15945 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
15946 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
15947 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
15948 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
15949 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
15950 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
15951 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
15952 server not already connected to them.
15953 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
15954 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
15955 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
15957 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
15959 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
15960 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
15961 are in a different state than they actually are.
15962 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
15963 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
15964 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
15966 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
15967 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
15968 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
15970 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
15971 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
15972 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
15973 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
15974 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
15975 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
15976 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
15978 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
15979 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
15980 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
15981 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
15984 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
15985 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15986 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
15987 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
15988 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
15989 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
15990 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
15991 creating actual system users.
15992 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
15993 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
15997 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
15999 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
16000 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
16001 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
16002 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
16003 hidden services better.
16004 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
16006 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
16007 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
16008 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
16009 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
16010 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
16011 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
16012 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
16013 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
16014 patch by Matt Edman).
16015 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
16016 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
16017 required exit node for certain sites.
16018 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
16019 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
16020 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
16021 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
16022 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
16023 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
16024 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
16025 rather than just "success" or "failure".
16026 - A more sane version numbering system. See
16027 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
16028 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
16029 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
16031 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
16032 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
16033 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
16034 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
16035 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
16036 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
16037 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
16039 o Robustness/stability fixes:
16040 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
16041 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
16042 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
16044 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
16045 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
16046 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
16048 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
16049 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
16050 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
16052 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
16053 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
16054 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
16055 that will want high uptime circuits.
16056 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
16057 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
16058 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
16059 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
16060 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
16061 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
16062 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
16063 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
16064 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
16065 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
16066 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
16067 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
16068 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
16069 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
16070 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
16071 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
16072 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
16073 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
16074 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
16075 when we try to launch one.
16076 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
16077 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
16078 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
16079 "ShutdownWaitLength".
16080 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
16081 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
16082 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
16083 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
16084 and to take errno into account where possible.
16087 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
16088 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
16089 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
16090 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
16091 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
16092 file more reasonable.
16093 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
16094 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
16095 addresses -- it won't.
16096 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
16097 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
16098 for google.com" problem.
16099 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
16100 so it's not just "unknown platform".
16101 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
16102 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
16103 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
16104 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
16106 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
16107 they could use instead.
16108 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
16109 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
16110 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
16111 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
16112 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
16113 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
16114 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
16115 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
16116 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
16118 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
16122 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
16123 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
16125 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
16126 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
16127 private-IP addresses.
16128 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
16129 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
16131 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
16132 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
16133 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
16134 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
16135 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
16136 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
16137 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
16139 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
16140 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
16141 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
16142 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
16143 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
16144 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
16145 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
16146 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
16148 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
16150 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
16151 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
16152 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
16153 whether the server is hibernating.
16156 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
16157 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
16158 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
16159 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
16160 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
16161 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
16162 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
16163 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
16164 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
16165 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
16166 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
16167 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
16168 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
16169 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
16170 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
16172 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
16173 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
16174 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
16175 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
16176 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
16177 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
16178 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
16179 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
16180 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
16181 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
16182 existing torrc files.
16183 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
16186 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
16187 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16188 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
16189 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
16190 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
16191 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
16192 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
16193 the win32 SYSTEM account.
16194 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
16195 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
16196 file descriptors available.
16197 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
16198 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
16199 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
16202 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
16203 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16204 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
16205 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
16207 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
16208 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
16209 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
16210 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
16211 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
16213 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
16214 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
16215 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
16216 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
16217 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
16218 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
16219 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
16220 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
16221 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
16222 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
16223 800kB/s of capacity.
16224 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
16227 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
16228 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16229 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
16230 need as much processor time.
16231 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
16232 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
16233 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
16234 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
16235 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
16236 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
16237 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
16238 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
16239 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
16240 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
16241 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
16242 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
16244 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
16245 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
16246 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
16247 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
16248 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
16249 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
16250 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
16253 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
16254 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
16255 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
16257 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
16258 style address, then we'd crash.
16259 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
16260 a dirserver is broken.
16261 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
16263 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
16264 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
16265 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
16267 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
16268 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
16269 name out of the warning/assert messages.
16270 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
16271 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
16272 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
16274 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
16275 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
16276 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
16278 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
16280 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
16281 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
16282 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
16283 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
16284 values at once couldn't work.
16285 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
16286 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
16287 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
16288 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
16289 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
16290 they can handle any number of routers.
16291 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
16292 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
16293 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
16294 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
16295 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
16296 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
16297 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
16298 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
16299 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
16302 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
16303 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
16304 - Make hibernation actually work.
16305 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
16306 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
16307 don't use the stream status code.
16310 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
16312 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
16313 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
16315 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
16318 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
16319 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
16320 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
16321 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
16322 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
16323 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
16324 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
16325 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
16326 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
16327 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
16329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16330 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
16331 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
16332 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
16333 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
16334 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
16335 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
16336 - Make unit tests work on win32.
16339 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
16340 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
16341 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
16343 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
16344 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
16345 than just chopping them off.
16346 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
16348 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16349 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
16350 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
16351 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
16352 right after sending the begin cell.
16353 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
16354 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
16355 exit nodes too. Oops.
16358 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
16359 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
16360 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
16361 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
16362 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
16363 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
16364 the user knows which one it's talking about.
16365 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
16366 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
16367 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
16370 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
16371 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16372 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
16373 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
16375 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
16377 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
16378 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
16379 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
16381 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
16382 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
16383 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
16384 Clip rather than rejecting.
16385 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
16386 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
16389 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
16390 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
16391 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
16392 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
16394 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
16397 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
16398 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16399 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
16400 win32 socket errors better.
16402 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
16403 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
16406 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
16407 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16408 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
16409 so we don't see those messages days later.
16411 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
16412 - Make tor-resolve work again.
16413 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
16414 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
16417 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
16418 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
16419 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
16420 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
16422 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
16423 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
16424 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
16427 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
16428 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16429 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
16430 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
16431 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
16432 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
16433 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
16434 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
16435 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
16437 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
16438 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
16439 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
16440 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
16442 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
16443 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
16446 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
16447 hibernation properties by
16448 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
16449 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
16450 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
16451 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
16452 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
16453 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
16454 get back to normal.)
16455 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
16457 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
16458 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
16459 to fill the last cell completely.
16460 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
16463 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
16464 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16465 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
16466 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
16467 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
16468 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
16469 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
16470 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
16471 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
16472 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
16473 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
16475 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
16476 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
16477 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
16478 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
16479 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
16480 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
16481 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
16482 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
16484 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
16485 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
16486 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
16487 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
16488 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
16489 have it on start-up.
16492 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
16493 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
16494 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
16495 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
16496 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
16497 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
16498 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
16499 configuration to torrc.
16500 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
16501 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
16502 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
16503 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
16504 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
16506 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
16507 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
16508 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
16509 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
16510 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
16511 log more informatively.
16512 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
16513 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
16514 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
16515 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
16516 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
16517 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
16518 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
16519 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
16520 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
16521 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
16522 from each other, to hinder linkability.
16525 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
16526 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
16527 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
16528 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
16529 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
16530 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
16531 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
16533 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
16534 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
16535 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
16536 they ran out of file descriptors.
16537 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
16538 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
16539 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
16540 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
16541 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
16542 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
16543 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
16545 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
16548 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
16549 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
16550 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
16551 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
16552 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
16553 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
16554 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
16555 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
16556 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
16557 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
16558 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
16559 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
16560 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
16561 with the control port.
16562 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
16563 use in authenticating to the control interface.
16564 - New log format in config:
16565 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
16566 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
16569 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
16570 from their dirserver.
16571 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
16573 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
16574 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
16575 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
16576 them act more like real nodes.
16577 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
16578 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
16580 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
16581 nickname to its identity key.
16582 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
16583 not on the command line.
16584 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
16585 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
16586 1024) file descriptors.
16588 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
16589 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
16591 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
16592 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
16593 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
16596 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
16597 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
16598 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
16599 exit policy, not reject *:*.
16600 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
16601 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
16602 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
16603 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
16604 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
16605 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
16606 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
16609 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
16610 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
16611 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
16612 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
16613 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
16614 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
16615 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
16618 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
16619 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16620 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
16621 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
16622 the ones we find in directories.)
16623 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
16625 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
16626 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
16628 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
16629 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
16630 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
16632 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
16633 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
16634 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
16635 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
16637 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
16638 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
16639 any more exit policy lines.
16642 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
16643 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
16644 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
16645 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
16646 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
16647 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
16648 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
16649 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
16650 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
16651 will be able to get a directory.
16652 - Http proxy support
16653 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
16654 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
16655 be routed through this host.
16656 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
16657 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
16658 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
16659 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
16662 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
16664 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
16665 clients/servers with an open dirport.
16666 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
16667 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
16668 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
16669 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
16670 intermittent connections.
16671 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
16672 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
16674 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
16675 in reporting stats locally.
16676 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
16677 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
16678 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
16681 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
16683 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
16684 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
16687 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
16689 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
16690 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
16691 if you don't want it open.
16692 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
16693 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
16694 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
16695 intermittent connections.
16696 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
16698 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
16699 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
16700 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
16701 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
16702 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
16703 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
16704 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
16705 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
16706 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
16707 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
16708 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
16709 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
16710 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
16711 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
16712 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
16713 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
16716 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
16717 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
16718 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
16719 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
16720 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
16722 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
16724 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
16725 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
16726 specified in HTTP 1.0.
16727 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
16728 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
16729 than once per minute.
16730 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
16731 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
16734 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
16735 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
16738 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
16739 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
16740 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
16741 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
16744 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
16745 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
16747 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
16748 don't put it into the client dns cache.
16749 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
16750 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
16751 until we get our next directory.
16753 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
16754 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
16755 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
16756 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
16757 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
16758 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
16759 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
16760 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
16761 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
16762 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
16763 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
16765 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
16767 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
16768 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
16770 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
16771 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
16772 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
16774 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
16776 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
16777 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
16778 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
16779 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
16780 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
16781 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
16782 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
16783 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
16786 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
16787 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
16788 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
16789 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
16792 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
16793 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
16794 ask them to resolve the host "".
16797 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
16798 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
16799 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
16800 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
16801 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
16802 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
16803 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
16804 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
16805 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
16806 clients don't use this yet.)
16807 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
16808 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
16809 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
16810 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
16811 for pointing out this bug.)
16812 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
16813 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
16814 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
16815 kazaa, gnutella ports.
16816 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
16818 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
16819 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
16820 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
16821 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
16822 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
16823 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
16824 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
16825 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
16826 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
16827 wolf unpredictably.
16828 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
16829 that's still handshaking.
16830 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
16831 you'll choose it for your path.
16832 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
16833 end relay cell, etc.
16834 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
16835 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
16836 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
16839 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
16840 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
16842 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
16843 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
16844 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
16845 list to decide who's running or verified.
16846 - Bugfixes and features:
16847 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
16848 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
16849 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
16850 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
16851 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
16852 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
16854 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
16855 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
16856 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
16857 know you might want to get it verified.
16858 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
16861 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
16863 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
16864 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
16865 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
16866 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
16868 o Protocol changes:
16869 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
16870 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
16871 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
16872 hadn't heard of before.
16875 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
16876 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
16877 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
16878 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
16879 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
16880 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
16881 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
16882 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
16883 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
16884 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
16885 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
16886 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
16887 - Directory caching.
16888 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
16889 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
16890 directory they've pulled down.
16891 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
16892 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
16893 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
16894 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
16895 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
16896 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
16897 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
16899 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
16900 This isn't used yet.
16901 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
16902 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
16903 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
16904 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
16905 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
16906 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
16907 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
16908 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
16909 - File and name management:
16910 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
16911 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
16913 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
16914 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
16915 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
16916 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
16917 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
16918 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
16919 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
16921 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
16922 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
16923 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
16924 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
16925 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
16927 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
16928 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
16929 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
16930 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
16931 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
16932 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
16933 - New docs in the tarball:
16935 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
16938 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
16939 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
16940 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
16943 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
16944 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
16945 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
16948 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
16949 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
16952 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
16953 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
16954 - Make it build on Win32 again.
16955 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
16956 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
16960 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
16962 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
16963 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
16964 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
16965 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
16966 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
16967 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
16968 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
16969 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
16970 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
16971 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
16974 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
16977 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
16978 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
16979 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
16980 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
16982 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
16983 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
16984 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
16986 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
16987 hidden service per 15-minute period.
16988 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
16989 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
16990 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
16991 o Fixes for security bugs:
16992 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
16993 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
16994 a trusted dirserver.
16996 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
16997 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
16998 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
16999 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
17000 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
17001 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
17002 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
17003 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
17004 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
17005 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
17007 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
17008 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
17009 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
17010 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
17012 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
17013 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
17014 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
17015 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
17016 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
17017 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
17018 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
17019 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
17020 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
17021 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
17022 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
17023 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
17024 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
17027 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
17028 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
17029 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
17030 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
17033 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
17034 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
17035 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
17036 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
17037 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
17038 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
17039 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
17043 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
17044 [version bump only]
17047 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
17048 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
17049 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
17050 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
17051 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
17053 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
17056 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
17057 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
17058 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
17059 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
17060 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
17061 o Better debugging for tls errors
17062 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
17063 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
17064 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
17065 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
17066 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
17067 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
17068 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
17069 o win32's close can't close a socket.
17072 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
17073 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
17074 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
17075 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
17076 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
17077 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
17078 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
17079 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
17080 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
17081 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
17082 just close the circ.
17083 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
17084 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
17085 (this was quite rare).
17088 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
17089 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
17090 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
17091 if you decrypted them correctly.
17092 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
17093 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
17094 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
17097 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
17098 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
17099 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
17100 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
17101 a second one and it works.
17102 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
17103 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
17104 alice would just have to wait to time out.
17105 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
17106 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
17107 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
17108 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
17109 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
17110 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
17111 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
17112 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
17113 i'd still like to find the bug though.
17114 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
17116 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
17120 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
17121 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
17122 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
17123 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
17124 he retries a couple of times
17125 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
17126 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
17127 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
17128 too long (they were sticking around forever).
17129 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
17133 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
17134 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
17135 - make hup work again
17136 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
17137 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
17138 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
17139 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
17140 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
17141 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
17143 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
17144 o changes from 0.0.5:
17145 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
17146 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
17147 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
17148 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
17149 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
17151 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
17152 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
17153 in-memory directories too
17156 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
17157 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
17160 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
17162 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
17163 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
17164 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
17165 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
17168 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
17169 [version bump only]
17172 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
17173 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
17175 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
17176 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
17177 but that aren't warnings
17180 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
17181 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
17182 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
17183 the dns farm to do it.
17184 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
17185 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
17187 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
17188 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
17189 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
17192 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
17193 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
17194 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
17195 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
17196 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
17197 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
17198 expect it to have a nickname.
17199 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
17200 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
17203 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
17204 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
17208 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
17209 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
17210 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
17211 - include missing header fcntl.h
17212 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
17213 - deal with hardware word alignment
17214 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
17215 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
17216 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
17217 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
17218 by kill -USR1 currently.
17219 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
17220 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
17221 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
17224 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
17225 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
17226 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
17229 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
17231 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
17232 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
17233 - And fix a few endian issues.
17236 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
17238 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
17239 try that circuit again: try a new one.
17240 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
17241 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
17242 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
17243 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
17244 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
17245 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
17247 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
17248 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
17249 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
17251 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
17253 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
17254 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
17255 side isn't reading right then.
17256 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
17257 RecommendedVersions
17258 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
17259 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
17260 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
17263 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
17265 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
17266 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
17269 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
17273 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
17275 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
17276 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
17277 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
17278 connection is finished.
17279 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
17280 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
17281 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
17282 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
17283 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
17284 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
17285 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
17286 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
17287 rather than warn and continue.
17288 - Make --version work
17289 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
17292 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
17294 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
17295 knows it's working.
17296 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
17297 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
17299 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
17300 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
17301 so you can collect coredumps there.
17303 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
17304 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
17305 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
17306 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
17307 dns cache actually gets populated.
17308 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
17309 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
17310 end cell down it first.
17311 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
17312 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
17315 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
17317 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
17318 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
17320 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
17321 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
17322 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
17323 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
17324 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
17325 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
17327 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
17329 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
17330 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
17331 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
17332 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
17333 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
17334 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
17336 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
17337 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
17340 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
17342 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
17343 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
17344 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
17345 tor. It even has a man page.
17346 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
17347 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
17348 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
17349 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
17351 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
17353 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
17356 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
17358 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
17359 it, apt-getters. :)
17360 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
17361 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
17362 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
17363 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
17364 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
17365 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
17366 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
17367 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
17368 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
17369 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
17370 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
17372 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
17373 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
17376 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
17378 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
17379 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
17382 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
17384 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
17385 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
17386 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
17387 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
17388 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
17389 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
17390 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
17391 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
17392 logfile so you know it's working.
17393 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
17394 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
17397 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
17399 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
17400 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
17401 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
17404 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
17406 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
17407 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
17408 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
17411 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
17412 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
17413 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
17415 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
17416 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
17418 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
17419 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
17420 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
17422 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
17423 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
17427 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
17429 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
17430 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
17431 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
17434 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
17435 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
17436 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
17437 - Add port ranges to exit policies
17438 - Add a conservative default exit policy
17439 - Warn if you're running tor as root
17440 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
17441 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
17442 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
17443 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
17445 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
17448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
17449 o Robustness and bugfixes:
17450 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
17451 really screw things up.
17452 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
17454 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
17455 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
17457 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
17458 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
17459 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
17460 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
17461 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
17462 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
17465 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
17468 - Change default loglevel to warn.
17469 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
17470 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
17472 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
17475 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
17476 o Robustness and bugfixes:
17477 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
17478 - to get ownership/permissions right
17479 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
17480 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
17481 pull down a directory again
17482 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
17483 causing server crashes
17484 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
17485 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
17486 - exit if bind() fails
17487 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
17488 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
17489 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
17490 - fix minor bias in PRNG
17491 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
17494 - Wrote the design document (woo)
17496 o Circuit building and exit policies:
17497 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
17499 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
17500 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
17501 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
17502 exists, rather than failing
17503 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
17504 which AP connections are standing by
17505 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
17506 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
17507 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
17509 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
17510 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
17513 - APPort is now called SocksPort
17514 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
17516 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
17517 hardcoded (for dirservers)
17518 - Reloads config on HUP
17519 - Usage info on -h or --help
17520 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
17523 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
17524 o General stability:
17525 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
17526 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
17527 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
17528 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
17529 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
17530 to take down the network when I approve a new router
17531 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
17534 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
17535 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
17537 o Autoconf improvements:
17538 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
17539 - Make install now works
17540 - create var/lib/tor on make install
17541 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
17542 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
17544 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
17545 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
17546 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
17547 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup