1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
6 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
7 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
8 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
9 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
10 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
12 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
13 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
14 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
15 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
16 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
17 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
18 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
19 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
21 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
22 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
23 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
25 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
26 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
27 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
28 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
30 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
31 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
32 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
33 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
35 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
36 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
37 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
38 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
39 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
40 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
43 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
44 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
45 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
47 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
48 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
49 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
50 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
51 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
52 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
53 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
56 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
57 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
60 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
61 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
62 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
63 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
64 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
65 current version of 0.4.1.x.
67 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
68 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
69 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
70 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
71 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
72 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
73 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
74 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
76 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
77 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
78 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
80 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
81 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
82 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
83 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
84 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
86 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
87 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
88 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
90 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
91 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
92 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
93 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
94 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
95 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
96 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
99 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
100 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
103 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
104 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
105 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
106 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
107 bugs present in previous series.
109 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
110 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
111 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
112 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
114 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
115 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
117 o Major features (directory authorities):
118 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
119 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
120 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
122 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
123 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
124 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
125 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
126 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
127 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
130 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
131 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
132 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
133 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
134 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
135 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
138 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
139 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
140 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
141 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
142 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
143 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
144 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
145 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
146 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
148 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
149 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
150 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
151 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
153 o Major bugfixes (relay):
154 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
155 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
156 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
157 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
158 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
159 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
160 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
162 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
163 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
164 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
165 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
166 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
168 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
169 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
170 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
171 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
172 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
175 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
176 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
177 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
180 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
181 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
182 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
183 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
186 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
187 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
188 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
189 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
190 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
191 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
192 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
193 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
194 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
195 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
196 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
197 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
198 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
199 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
200 files. Closes ticket 31175.
202 o Minor features (build system):
203 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
204 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
205 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
206 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
207 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
209 o Minor features (compilation):
210 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
211 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
212 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
214 o Minor features (configuration):
215 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
216 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
217 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
218 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
220 o Minor features (continuous integration):
221 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
222 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
223 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
224 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
225 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
226 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
228 o Minor features (debugging):
229 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
230 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
231 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
232 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
234 o Minor features (geoip):
235 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
236 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
238 o Minor features (git hooks):
239 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
240 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
241 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
242 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
243 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
245 o Minor features (git scripts):
246 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
247 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
248 push. Closes ticket 31314.
249 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
250 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
251 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
252 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
253 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
254 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
255 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
257 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
258 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
259 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
260 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
261 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
262 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
263 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
264 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
265 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
267 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
268 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
269 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
272 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
273 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
274 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
276 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
277 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
278 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
279 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
280 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
281 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
282 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
284 o Minor features (onion service v3):
285 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
286 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
288 o Minor features (onion service):
289 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
290 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
291 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
292 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
294 o Minor features (onion services v3):
295 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
296 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
299 o Minor features (stem tests):
300 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
301 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
304 o Minor features (testing):
305 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
306 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
307 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
308 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
309 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
310 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
311 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
312 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
313 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
314 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
315 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
316 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
317 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
318 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
319 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
321 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
322 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
323 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
324 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
326 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
328 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
329 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
331 o Minor features (token bucket):
332 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
333 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
335 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
336 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
337 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
339 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
340 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
341 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
342 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
343 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
344 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
345 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
346 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
349 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
350 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
351 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
352 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
354 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
355 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
356 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
357 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
358 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
359 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
360 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
362 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
363 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
364 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
365 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
366 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
367 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
369 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
370 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
371 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
372 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
373 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
374 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
376 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
377 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
378 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
381 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
382 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
383 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
384 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
386 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
387 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
388 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
390 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
391 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
392 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
393 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
395 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
396 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
397 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
398 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
400 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
401 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
402 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
403 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
405 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
406 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
407 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
408 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
409 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
410 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
411 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
412 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
413 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
414 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
416 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
417 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
418 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
419 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
420 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
422 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
423 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
424 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
427 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
428 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
429 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
431 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
432 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
433 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
434 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
435 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
436 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
437 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
438 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
439 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
440 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
441 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
442 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
445 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
446 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
447 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
448 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
451 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
452 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
453 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
454 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
456 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
457 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
458 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
459 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
460 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
461 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
462 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
463 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
466 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
467 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
468 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
469 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
470 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
472 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
473 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
474 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
475 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
476 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
477 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
478 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
479 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
480 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
483 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
484 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
485 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
486 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
487 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
488 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
489 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
490 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
491 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
492 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
493 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
494 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
495 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
497 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
498 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
499 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
501 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
502 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
503 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
504 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
506 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
507 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
508 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
509 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
510 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
513 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
514 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
515 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
518 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
519 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
520 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
523 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
524 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
525 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
527 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
528 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
529 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
530 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
531 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
532 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
534 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
535 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
536 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
537 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
540 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
541 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
542 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
543 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
544 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
546 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
547 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
548 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
549 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
550 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
551 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
553 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
554 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
555 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
556 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
558 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
559 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
560 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
562 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
563 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
564 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
566 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
567 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
568 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
569 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
571 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
572 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
573 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
574 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
575 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
577 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
578 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
579 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
580 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
582 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
583 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
584 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
585 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
586 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
588 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
589 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
590 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
591 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
592 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
595 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
596 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
597 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
599 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
600 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
601 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
602 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
603 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
604 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
607 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
608 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
609 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
611 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
612 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
613 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
616 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
617 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
618 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
619 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
620 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
621 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
623 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
624 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
625 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
626 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
627 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
629 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
630 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
631 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
632 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
633 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
634 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
635 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
636 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
637 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
638 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
640 o Code simplification and refactoring:
641 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
642 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
643 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
644 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
645 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
646 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
648 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
652 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
653 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
654 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
655 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
656 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
657 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
658 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
659 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
661 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
662 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
663 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
664 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
665 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
666 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
667 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
668 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
669 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
670 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
671 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
672 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
673 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
676 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
677 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
678 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
679 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
680 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
681 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
683 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
687 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
688 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
689 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
691 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
692 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
693 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
696 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
697 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
698 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
699 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
700 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
701 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
702 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
703 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
704 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
705 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
706 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
707 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
708 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
709 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
710 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
711 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
713 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
714 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
715 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
716 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
717 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
718 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
719 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
720 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
721 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
722 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
724 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
725 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
726 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
728 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
730 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
731 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
734 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
735 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
736 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
738 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
739 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
740 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
742 o Testing (continuous integration):
743 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
744 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
745 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
746 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
747 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
748 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
749 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
750 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
751 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
754 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
755 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
756 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
757 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
759 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
760 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
761 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
762 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
764 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
765 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
766 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
767 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
769 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
770 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
771 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
772 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
773 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
774 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
775 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
776 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
778 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
779 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
780 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
781 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
782 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
784 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
785 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
786 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
787 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
788 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
791 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
792 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
793 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
794 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
796 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
798 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
800 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
801 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
802 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
804 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
805 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
806 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
807 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
808 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
809 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
811 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
812 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
813 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
814 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
816 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
817 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
818 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
819 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
820 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
821 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
822 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
823 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
824 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
825 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
828 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
829 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
830 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
831 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
832 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
833 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
834 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
835 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
836 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
838 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
839 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
840 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
841 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
843 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
844 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
845 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
846 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
847 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
850 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
851 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
852 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
854 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
855 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
856 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
858 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
859 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
860 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
862 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
863 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
864 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
865 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
867 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
868 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
869 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
870 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
871 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
873 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
874 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
875 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
877 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
878 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
879 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
882 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
883 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
884 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
886 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
887 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
888 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
889 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
891 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
893 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
894 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
896 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
897 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
898 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
899 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
900 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
901 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
902 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
903 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
904 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
905 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
907 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
908 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
909 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
910 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
914 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
915 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
916 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
917 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
918 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
920 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
921 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
922 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
923 support until 1 Feb 2022.
925 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
926 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
929 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
930 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
931 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
932 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
933 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
934 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
935 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
936 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
937 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
938 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
939 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
941 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
942 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
943 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
944 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
945 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
946 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
948 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
949 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
950 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
951 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
952 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
955 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
956 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
957 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
958 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
959 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
961 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
962 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
963 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
964 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
967 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
968 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
969 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
970 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
971 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
972 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
973 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
974 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
976 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
977 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
978 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
979 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
980 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
982 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
983 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
984 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
985 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
986 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
989 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
990 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
991 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
993 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
994 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
995 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
998 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
999 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1000 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1002 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1003 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1004 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1005 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1007 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1008 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1009 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1010 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1011 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1013 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1014 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1015 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1017 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1018 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1019 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1022 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1023 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1024 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1026 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1027 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1028 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1030 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1031 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1032 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1034 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1035 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
1036 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
1039 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1040 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1041 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1042 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1043 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1044 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1047 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1048 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1049 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1050 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1052 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1053 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1054 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1058 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1059 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1062 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1063 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1064 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1066 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1067 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1068 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1069 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1071 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1072 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1073 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1074 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1076 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1077 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1078 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1079 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1081 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1082 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1083 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1084 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1085 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1086 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1087 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1090 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1091 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1092 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1094 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1095 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1096 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1097 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1099 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1100 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1101 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1104 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1105 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1106 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1107 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1108 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1109 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1110 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1113 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1114 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1115 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1118 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1119 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1120 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1121 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1122 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1124 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1125 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1126 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1127 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1128 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1130 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1131 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1132 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1135 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1136 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1137 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1138 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1139 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1141 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1142 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1143 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1144 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1146 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1147 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1148 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1149 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1150 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1153 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1154 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1155 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1158 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1159 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1160 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1161 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1163 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1164 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
1165 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
1166 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
1168 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1169 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1170 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1171 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1173 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1174 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1175 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1176 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1179 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1180 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1181 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1182 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1183 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1184 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1187 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1188 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1189 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1191 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1192 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1193 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1195 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1196 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1197 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1198 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1200 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1201 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1202 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1204 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1205 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1206 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1207 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1208 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1211 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1212 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1215 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1216 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1217 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1218 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1219 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1220 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1221 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1222 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1223 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1224 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1226 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1227 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1228 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1229 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1231 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1232 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1233 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1234 Resolves issue 29702.
1236 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1237 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1239 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1240 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1241 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1242 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1245 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1246 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1247 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1248 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1250 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1251 Closes ticket 31859.
1252 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1253 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1255 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1256 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1257 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1258 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1259 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1260 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1261 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1262 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1263 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1264 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1266 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1267 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1268 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1269 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1270 Closes ticket 32500.
1273 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
1274 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
1275 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
1278 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1279 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1282 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1283 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1284 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1285 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1286 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1287 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1288 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1289 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1290 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1291 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1292 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1294 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1295 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1296 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1297 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1298 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1299 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1301 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1302 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
1303 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
1304 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
1305 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
1306 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1308 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1309 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1310 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1311 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1312 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1315 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1316 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1317 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1318 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1319 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1321 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1322 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1323 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1324 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1327 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1328 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1329 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1330 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1331 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1333 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1334 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1335 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1336 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1337 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1340 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1341 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
1342 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
1343 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
1344 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
1345 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
1346 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
1347 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1349 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1350 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
1351 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
1352 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
1353 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
1356 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1357 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1358 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1360 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1361 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
1362 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
1365 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1366 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
1367 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
1368 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
1370 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1371 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1372 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1375 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1376 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1377 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1379 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1380 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1381 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1382 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1384 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1385 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1386 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1387 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1388 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1390 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1391 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1392 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1394 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1395 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
1396 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
1397 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
1399 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1400 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1401 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1404 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1405 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
1406 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
1407 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
1408 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
1409 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
1410 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
1411 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
1412 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
1413 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
1414 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
1415 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
1416 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
1419 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1420 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
1421 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
1422 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
1423 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
1425 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
1426 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
1427 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1429 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1430 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1431 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1433 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1434 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1435 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1437 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1438 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
1439 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
1442 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1443 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1444 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1446 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1447 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1448 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1449 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1450 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1451 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1453 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1454 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1455 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1456 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1457 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1459 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1460 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1461 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1464 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1465 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1466 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1468 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1469 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1470 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1472 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1473 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1474 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1475 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1477 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1478 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1479 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1480 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1482 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1483 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1484 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1485 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1487 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1488 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1489 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1490 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1492 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1493 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1494 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1495 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1496 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1497 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1498 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1500 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1501 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1502 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1503 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1505 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1506 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1507 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1508 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1510 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1511 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1512 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1515 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1516 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1517 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1518 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1519 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1520 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1521 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1523 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1524 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1525 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1526 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1529 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1530 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1531 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1532 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1533 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1535 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1536 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
1537 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1539 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1540 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
1541 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
1542 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
1543 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1544 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
1545 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
1546 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
1547 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1548 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
1549 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1551 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1552 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1553 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1554 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1555 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1557 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1558 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1559 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1562 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1563 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1564 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1565 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1566 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1569 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1570 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1571 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1574 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1575 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1576 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1577 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1580 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1581 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1582 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1585 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1586 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1587 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1588 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1590 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1591 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
1592 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
1593 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1595 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1596 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
1597 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1599 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1600 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1601 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1602 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1604 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1605 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1606 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1607 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1610 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1611 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1612 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1613 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1614 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1615 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1618 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1619 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1620 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1621 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1623 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1624 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
1625 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1627 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1628 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1629 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1631 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1632 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
1633 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
1634 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
1635 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
1636 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
1637 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
1639 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1640 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
1641 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
1644 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1645 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
1646 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
1647 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
1648 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
1649 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
1650 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
1651 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1653 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1654 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
1655 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
1656 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1657 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
1658 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
1661 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1662 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1663 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1664 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1665 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1667 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
1668 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
1669 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
1670 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
1671 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
1672 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
1673 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
1674 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1676 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1677 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1678 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1681 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1682 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1683 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1684 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1685 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1686 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1687 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1688 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1689 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1690 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1692 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1693 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
1694 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
1695 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
1696 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
1697 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1699 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1700 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1701 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1702 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1704 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1705 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1706 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1707 Resolves issue 29702.
1709 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1710 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1712 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1713 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1714 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1715 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1718 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1719 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1720 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1721 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1723 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1724 Closes ticket 31859.
1725 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1726 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1728 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1729 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1730 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1731 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1732 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1733 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1734 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1735 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1736 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1737 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1739 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1740 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1741 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1742 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1743 Closes ticket 32500.
1746 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
1747 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
1748 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
1749 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
1752 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1753 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
1754 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
1755 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
1756 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1757 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
1758 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
1759 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
1760 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1762 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1763 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1764 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1767 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1768 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1769 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1772 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
1773 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
1774 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
1775 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
1777 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1778 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1779 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1781 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1782 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
1783 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
1784 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1786 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1787 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1788 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1789 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1792 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1793 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1794 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1795 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1796 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1798 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1799 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1800 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1803 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1804 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1805 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1807 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1808 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1809 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1810 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1811 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1812 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1814 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1815 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1816 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
1817 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
1818 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
1819 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1820 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1821 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1822 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1823 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1825 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1826 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1827 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1828 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1831 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
1832 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
1833 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
1834 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
1835 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
1836 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
1837 bugfixes on earlier versions.
1839 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
1840 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
1841 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1842 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1844 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
1845 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1847 o Directory authority changes:
1848 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1851 o Major features (circuit padding):
1852 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
1853 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
1854 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
1855 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
1856 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
1857 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
1858 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
1859 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
1860 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
1862 o Major features (code organization):
1863 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
1864 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
1865 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
1866 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
1869 o Major features (controller protocol):
1870 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
1871 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
1872 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
1873 Closes ticket 30091.
1875 o Major features (flow control):
1876 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
1877 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
1878 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
1879 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
1880 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
1881 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
1882 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
1884 o Major features (performance):
1885 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
1886 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
1887 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
1889 o Major features (performance, RNG):
1890 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
1891 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
1892 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
1893 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
1894 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
1895 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
1896 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
1897 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
1899 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1900 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1901 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1902 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1903 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1904 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1905 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1906 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1907 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1908 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1909 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1911 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
1912 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
1913 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
1915 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1916 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1917 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1918 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1919 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1921 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
1922 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1923 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1924 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1925 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1928 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
1929 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1930 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1931 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1932 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1934 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1935 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1936 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1937 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1940 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
1941 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
1942 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
1943 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
1944 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
1945 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
1948 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
1949 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
1950 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
1951 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
1953 o Minor features (circuit padding):
1954 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
1956 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
1957 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
1958 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
1959 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
1960 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1961 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
1962 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
1964 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
1965 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1966 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1968 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1969 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1970 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1971 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
1972 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
1974 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1975 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1977 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1979 o Minor features (controller):
1980 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
1981 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
1982 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1984 o Minor features (debugging):
1985 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
1986 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
1987 can use format strings to include information for trouble
1988 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
1990 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1991 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
1992 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
1993 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
1994 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
1995 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
1996 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
1997 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
1998 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
1999 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
2001 o Minor features (developer tools):
2002 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
2003 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
2004 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
2005 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
2006 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
2008 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
2009 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
2011 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
2012 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
2014 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2015 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2016 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2017 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2018 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2020 o Minor features (geoip):
2021 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2022 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
2023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2024 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
2026 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
2027 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
2028 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
2030 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
2031 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
2032 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
2033 addresses. Implements 26992.
2035 o Minor features (logging):
2036 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
2037 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
2038 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
2039 Closes ticket 30686.
2041 o Minor features (maintenance):
2042 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
2043 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
2044 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
2046 o Minor features (modularity):
2047 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
2048 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
2050 o Minor features (performance):
2051 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
2052 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
2053 Closes ticket 28837.
2055 o Minor features (testing):
2056 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
2057 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
2058 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
2059 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
2061 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
2062 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
2063 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
2064 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
2065 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
2066 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
2067 Implements ticket 29732.
2068 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
2069 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
2071 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
2072 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
2074 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
2075 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
2076 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
2077 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
2078 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2079 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2081 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
2082 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
2083 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
2084 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2086 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
2087 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2088 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2090 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2091 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
2092 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2093 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
2094 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
2095 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
2096 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2097 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
2098 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
2099 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2100 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
2101 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2102 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
2103 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
2104 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2105 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
2106 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
2107 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2109 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
2110 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2111 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2112 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2113 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2115 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
2116 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
2117 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
2118 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
2119 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2120 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2122 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
2123 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2124 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
2127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2128 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2129 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2131 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
2132 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2133 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2134 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2136 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
2137 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2138 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2139 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2141 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2142 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2143 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2144 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2145 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2146 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2147 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2149 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2150 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
2151 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
2152 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
2153 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2155 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
2156 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2157 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2158 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2160 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2161 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
2162 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
2165 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2166 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2167 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2168 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2169 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
2170 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
2172 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
2173 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2174 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2176 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2177 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
2178 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2179 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
2180 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
2181 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
2183 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
2184 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2186 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2187 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
2188 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
2189 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
2190 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2191 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
2192 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
2195 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2196 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2197 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2199 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
2200 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
2203 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
2204 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
2205 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
2206 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
2208 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2209 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2210 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2211 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2212 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
2213 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
2214 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
2215 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
2217 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
2218 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
2219 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2220 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
2221 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
2222 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
2223 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2225 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
2226 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
2227 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
2228 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
2229 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
2230 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2232 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
2233 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2234 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2235 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2238 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2239 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
2240 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
2241 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
2242 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2244 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2245 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
2246 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2248 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2249 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2250 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2251 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2252 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2253 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2256 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
2257 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
2258 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
2261 o Minor bugfixes (python):
2262 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
2263 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
2264 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2266 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2267 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
2268 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
2269 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
2270 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2272 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
2273 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
2274 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
2275 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
2277 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
2278 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
2279 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
2280 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
2281 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2283 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2284 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
2285 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
2286 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2287 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
2288 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2289 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
2290 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2291 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
2292 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
2293 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
2294 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
2295 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2297 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
2298 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
2299 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
2300 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
2301 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2303 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2304 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
2305 port. Implements ticket 30007.
2306 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
2307 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
2308 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
2309 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
2310 string to directory connection with or without compression.
2311 Resolves issue 28816.
2312 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
2313 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
2314 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
2315 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
2316 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
2317 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
2318 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
2319 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
2320 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
2321 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
2322 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
2323 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
2324 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
2325 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
2326 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
2327 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
2328 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2329 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
2330 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2331 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
2332 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
2333 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
2334 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
2335 Closes ticket 29894.
2336 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
2337 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
2338 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
2339 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
2342 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
2343 Closes ticket 30630.
2344 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
2345 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
2349 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
2350 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
2351 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
2352 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
2356 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2357 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2358 Resolves issue 29702.
2360 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
2361 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
2362 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
2363 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
2364 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
2365 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
2366 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
2367 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
2368 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
2369 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
2370 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
2373 o Testing (chutney):
2374 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
2375 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
2376 Closes ticket 27251.
2378 o Testing (continuous integration):
2379 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
2380 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2381 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
2382 Closes ticket 30694.
2385 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
2386 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
2387 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
2388 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
2389 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
2390 long-term maintainability.
2392 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
2393 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
2394 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2395 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2397 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
2398 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2400 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
2401 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
2402 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
2403 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
2404 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
2405 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
2407 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
2408 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
2410 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
2411 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
2414 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
2415 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
2416 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
2417 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
2418 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
2419 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
2420 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
2421 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
2422 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
2425 o Major features (circuit padding):
2426 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
2427 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
2428 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
2429 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
2430 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
2431 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
2432 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
2433 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
2436 o Major features (refactoring):
2437 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
2438 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
2439 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
2440 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
2443 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
2444 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
2445 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
2446 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
2447 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
2448 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
2449 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
2450 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
2452 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2453 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
2454 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
2455 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
2456 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2458 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
2459 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
2460 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
2461 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
2462 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
2463 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2465 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
2466 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
2467 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
2468 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
2469 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
2470 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
2471 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2473 o Minor features (address selection):
2474 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
2475 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
2476 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
2477 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
2478 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
2479 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
2480 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2482 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
2483 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
2484 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
2485 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
2486 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
2488 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
2489 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
2490 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
2493 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2494 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
2495 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
2496 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
2497 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
2500 o Minor features (compilation):
2501 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
2502 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
2503 Patches from "Mangix".
2505 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2506 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
2507 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
2509 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
2511 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
2512 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
2513 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
2515 o Minor features (controller):
2516 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
2517 Implements ticket 28843.
2519 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2520 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
2521 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
2522 release. Closes ticket 27761.
2523 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
2524 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
2525 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
2527 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
2528 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
2529 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
2531 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2532 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
2533 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
2536 o Minor features (directory authority):
2537 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
2538 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
2539 Closes ticket 26698.
2540 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
2541 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
2542 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
2543 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
2546 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
2547 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
2548 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
2549 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
2550 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
2551 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
2552 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
2554 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2555 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
2556 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
2557 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
2558 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
2559 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
2560 background. Closes ticket 29357.
2562 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2563 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
2564 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
2566 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
2567 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
2568 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
2569 Closes ticket 28518.
2571 o Minor features (geoip):
2572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2573 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
2575 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
2576 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
2577 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
2578 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
2580 o Minor features (IPv6):
2581 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
2582 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
2583 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
2584 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
2585 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
2586 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2587 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
2588 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
2589 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
2590 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2592 o Minor features (log messages):
2593 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
2594 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
2597 o Minor features (memory usage):
2598 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
2599 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
2600 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
2601 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
2602 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
2604 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
2605 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
2606 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
2607 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
2609 o Minor features (parsing):
2610 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
2611 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
2612 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
2614 o Minor features (performance):
2615 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
2616 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
2617 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
2618 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
2620 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
2621 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
2622 Closes ticket 28852.
2623 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
2624 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
2625 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
2626 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
2627 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
2628 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
2630 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2631 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
2632 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
2633 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
2634 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
2636 o Minor features (process management):
2637 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
2638 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
2639 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
2640 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
2641 module. Closes ticket 28847.
2643 o Minor features (relay):
2644 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
2645 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
2646 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
2648 o Minor features (required protocols):
2649 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
2650 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
2651 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
2652 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
2653 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
2654 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
2655 297; closes ticket 27735.
2657 o Minor features (testing):
2658 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
2660 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
2661 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
2662 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
2663 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
2666 o Minor bugfixes (security):
2667 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
2668 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
2669 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
2670 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
2671 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
2672 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
2673 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
2674 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
2676 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
2677 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
2678 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
2679 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2681 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
2682 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
2683 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
2684 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
2685 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
2687 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
2688 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
2689 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2691 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
2692 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
2693 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
2694 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
2696 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2697 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
2698 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
2701 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
2702 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
2703 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2704 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
2705 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
2708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2709 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
2710 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2711 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
2712 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2713 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
2714 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
2715 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2717 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
2718 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
2719 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2721 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
2722 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
2723 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
2724 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2726 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
2727 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
2728 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
2729 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
2730 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
2732 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2733 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
2734 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
2735 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
2737 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2738 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
2739 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
2740 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
2741 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
2742 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
2743 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2745 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
2746 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
2747 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
2748 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
2751 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
2752 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
2753 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2755 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2756 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
2757 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
2758 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
2759 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2760 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
2761 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
2762 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
2763 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2764 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
2765 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2766 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
2767 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2768 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
2769 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
2770 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
2771 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2772 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
2773 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
2774 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
2775 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
2776 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
2778 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2779 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
2780 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
2781 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2782 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
2783 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2785 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2786 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
2787 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
2788 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
2789 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2791 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2792 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
2793 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
2794 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2796 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
2797 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
2798 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
2799 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
2800 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
2801 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2803 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2804 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
2805 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
2807 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
2808 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
2809 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
2811 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
2812 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
2813 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
2814 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
2816 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
2817 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
2818 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
2819 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2821 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2822 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
2823 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
2824 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
2825 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2827 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2828 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
2829 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2831 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
2832 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
2833 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
2834 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
2835 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
2838 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
2839 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
2840 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
2841 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2843 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
2844 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
2845 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
2846 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
2847 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
2848 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
2849 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
2851 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
2852 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
2853 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
2856 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2857 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
2858 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
2859 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2860 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
2861 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
2863 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
2864 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
2865 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
2866 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
2867 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
2868 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
2869 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2870 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
2871 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2872 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
2873 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2874 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
2875 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
2876 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
2877 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2878 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
2879 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2880 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
2881 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
2883 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
2884 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
2885 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
2886 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2887 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
2888 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
2890 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
2891 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
2892 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
2893 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
2894 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
2895 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
2896 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
2897 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2899 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
2900 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
2901 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2903 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
2904 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
2905 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
2906 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
2907 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2909 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
2910 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
2911 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
2912 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
2913 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
2914 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2916 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2917 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
2918 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
2919 Resolves issue 28816.
2920 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
2921 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
2922 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
2923 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
2924 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
2926 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
2927 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
2928 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
2929 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
2930 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
2931 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
2932 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
2933 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
2937 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
2938 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
2939 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
2940 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
2941 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
2942 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
2943 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
2944 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
2945 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
2947 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
2950 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
2951 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
2952 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
2953 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
2954 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
2955 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
2956 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
2957 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
2960 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
2962 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
2963 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
2965 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
2966 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
2967 code from client and service into one function. Closes
2970 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
2971 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
2973 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
2974 Resolves ticket 28006.
2975 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
2976 Resolves ticket 28012.
2977 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
2978 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
2979 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
2980 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
2984 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
2985 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
2986 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
2989 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
2990 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
2991 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
2993 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
2994 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
2995 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
2996 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
2997 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
2998 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
2999 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3000 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3002 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3003 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3004 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3005 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3006 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3008 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3009 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3010 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3011 Patches from "Mangix".
3013 o Minor features (geoip):
3014 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3015 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3017 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3018 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3021 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3022 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3023 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3024 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3025 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3026 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3028 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3029 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3030 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3031 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3034 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3035 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3036 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3037 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3039 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3040 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3041 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3044 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3045 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3046 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3047 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3049 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3050 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3051 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3052 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3054 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3055 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3056 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3057 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3058 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3059 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3061 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3062 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3063 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3064 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3065 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3067 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3068 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3069 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3070 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3071 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3073 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3074 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3075 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3077 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3078 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3079 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3081 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3082 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3083 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3084 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3086 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3087 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3088 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3090 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3091 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3092 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3093 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3094 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3097 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3098 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3099 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3100 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3101 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3104 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
3105 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
3106 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
3107 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
3108 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3110 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3111 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3112 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3113 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3114 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3115 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3116 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3117 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3119 o Minor features (geoip):
3120 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3121 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3123 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3124 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3125 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3126 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3128 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3129 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3130 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3131 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3132 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3135 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
3136 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3137 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3138 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3140 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
3141 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
3142 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
3143 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
3145 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3146 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3147 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3148 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3149 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3150 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3151 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3152 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3154 o Minor features (geoip):
3155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3156 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3158 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3159 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3160 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3161 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3163 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3164 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3165 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3166 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3167 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3170 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
3171 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
3172 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
3173 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
3174 to this version, or to a later series.
3176 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
3177 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
3178 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
3179 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
3180 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
3181 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
3183 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3184 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
3185 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
3186 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
3187 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
3190 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3191 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
3192 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
3193 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3195 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3196 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
3197 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
3198 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
3199 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
3200 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
3201 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
3202 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
3204 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3205 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
3206 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
3207 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
3209 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3210 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
3211 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
3212 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
3213 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
3215 o Minor features (geoip):
3216 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3217 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
3219 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
3220 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
3221 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
3222 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
3223 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
3224 Closes ticket 28973.
3226 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
3227 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
3228 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
3229 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
3231 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
3232 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
3233 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
3236 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3237 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
3238 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
3240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3241 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
3242 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
3243 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3245 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
3246 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
3247 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
3248 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3250 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3251 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
3252 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
3253 were the same, the default setting (0) for
3254 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
3255 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
3258 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3259 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
3260 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
3263 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
3264 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
3265 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
3266 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
3267 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3269 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3270 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
3271 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
3272 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
3273 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3275 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3276 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
3277 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
3278 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
3279 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
3280 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3282 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
3283 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
3284 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
3287 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3288 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
3289 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
3291 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3292 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
3293 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3295 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3296 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
3297 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
3300 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3301 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
3302 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
3303 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
3304 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
3305 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3306 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
3307 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3309 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
3310 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
3311 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
3312 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3314 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
3315 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
3316 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3317 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
3318 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
3319 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3320 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
3321 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
3322 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
3323 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
3325 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3326 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
3327 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
3328 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
3329 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
3330 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3332 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
3333 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
3334 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
3335 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
3336 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3338 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3339 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
3340 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3343 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
3344 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
3345 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
3346 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
3349 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
3350 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
3351 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
3354 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3355 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
3356 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
3357 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
3358 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
3361 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
3362 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
3363 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
3364 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
3365 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
3366 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
3367 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
3369 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3370 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
3371 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
3374 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
3375 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
3376 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
3377 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
3378 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
3381 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3382 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
3383 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
3384 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
3385 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
3387 o Minor features (geoip):
3388 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3389 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
3391 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
3392 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
3393 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
3394 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
3395 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
3396 Closes ticket 28973.
3398 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3399 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
3400 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
3401 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3403 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3404 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
3405 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
3406 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
3407 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
3410 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3411 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
3412 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
3413 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
3415 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
3416 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
3417 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3419 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3420 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
3421 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
3422 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
3424 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3425 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
3426 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
3427 were the same, the default setting (0) for
3428 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
3429 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
3432 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
3433 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
3434 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
3436 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
3437 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
3438 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
3439 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
3440 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3442 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3443 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
3444 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
3445 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
3446 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
3447 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3449 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
3450 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
3451 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
3452 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
3454 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
3455 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
3456 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3459 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
3460 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
3461 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
3462 affecting directory caches.
3464 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
3465 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
3466 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
3467 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
3468 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
3469 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
3470 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
3471 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
3473 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
3474 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
3475 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
3476 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
3477 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
3478 so it will recognize them.
3480 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
3481 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
3482 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
3483 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
3484 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
3485 with the latest stable release.)
3487 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
3488 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3490 o Major features (bootstrap):
3491 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
3492 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
3493 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
3494 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
3496 o Major features (new code layout):
3497 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
3498 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
3499 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
3500 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
3501 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
3502 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
3503 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
3505 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
3506 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
3507 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
3509 o Major features (onion services v3):
3510 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
3511 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
3512 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
3513 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
3514 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
3515 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
3516 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
3517 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3518 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
3519 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
3520 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
3521 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
3522 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
3523 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
3524 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
3525 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
3526 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
3527 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
3529 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
3530 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
3531 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
3532 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
3533 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
3534 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
3536 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
3537 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
3538 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
3539 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
3540 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
3541 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
3542 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
3544 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
3545 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
3546 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
3547 (if present), and restart Tor.
3549 o Major features (relay, UI change):
3550 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
3551 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
3552 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
3553 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
3554 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3555 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
3556 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
3558 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
3559 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
3560 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3562 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
3563 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
3564 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
3565 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
3566 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
3567 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3569 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3570 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
3571 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
3572 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
3575 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
3576 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
3577 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
3578 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
3579 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3581 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
3582 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
3583 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
3584 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
3585 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3587 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3588 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
3589 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
3590 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
3591 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
3592 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
3594 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
3595 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
3596 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
3597 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
3598 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
3601 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
3602 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
3603 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
3604 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
3605 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
3606 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
3608 o Major bugfixes (relay):
3609 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
3610 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
3611 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
3612 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
3614 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
3615 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
3616 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
3617 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
3618 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
3619 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
3621 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
3622 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
3623 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
3624 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3626 o Minor features (admin tools):
3627 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
3628 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
3631 o Minor features (build):
3632 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
3633 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
3634 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
3635 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
3637 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
3638 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
3639 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
3640 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
3641 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
3643 o Minor features (code layout):
3644 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
3645 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
3646 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
3647 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
3650 o Minor features (compilation):
3651 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
3652 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
3653 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
3654 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
3655 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
3656 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
3659 o Minor features (config):
3660 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
3663 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3664 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
3666 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
3667 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
3668 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
3669 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
3670 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
3671 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
3672 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
3674 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
3675 Implements ticket 27252.
3676 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3677 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3678 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
3679 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
3680 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
3681 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
3682 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
3683 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
3684 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
3686 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
3687 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
3688 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
3690 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
3691 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
3693 o Minor features (controller):
3694 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
3695 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
3696 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
3697 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
3698 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
3699 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
3700 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
3701 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
3703 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
3704 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
3705 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
3706 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
3708 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
3709 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
3710 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
3711 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3713 o Minor features (development):
3714 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
3715 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
3717 o Minor features (directory authority):
3718 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
3719 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
3720 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
3721 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
3723 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
3724 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
3727 o Minor features (embedding API):
3728 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
3729 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
3730 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
3731 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
3732 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
3733 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
3736 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3737 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
3738 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
3739 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
3740 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
3742 o Minor features (geoip):
3743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3744 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
3746 o Minor features (memory management):
3747 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
3748 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
3751 o Minor features (memory usage):
3752 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
3753 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
3754 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
3756 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
3757 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
3758 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
3759 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
3760 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
3761 Closes ticket 28973.
3763 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
3764 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
3765 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
3767 o Minor features (performance):
3768 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
3769 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
3770 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
3771 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
3772 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
3773 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
3774 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
3775 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
3776 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
3777 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
3779 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
3780 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
3781 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
3782 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
3784 o Minor features (testing):
3785 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
3786 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
3788 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
3789 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
3790 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
3792 o Minor features (UI):
3793 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
3794 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
3795 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
3796 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
3797 Closes ticket 26703.
3799 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
3800 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
3801 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
3802 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
3803 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
3805 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
3806 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
3807 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3808 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
3809 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
3812 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
3813 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
3814 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
3815 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3817 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3818 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
3819 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
3820 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3821 - Use time_t for all values in
3822 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
3823 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
3824 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3826 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
3827 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
3828 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
3829 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
3830 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
3833 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
3834 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
3835 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
3836 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
3837 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
3838 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3840 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
3841 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
3842 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
3843 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3845 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
3846 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
3847 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
3850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3851 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
3852 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
3853 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3855 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3856 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
3857 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
3860 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
3861 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
3862 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
3863 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
3864 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
3866 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
3867 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
3868 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
3869 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
3870 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
3873 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
3874 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
3875 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3876 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
3877 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
3878 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
3879 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3880 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
3881 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
3882 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
3883 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
3884 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
3885 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
3887 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
3888 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
3889 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3891 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3892 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
3893 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
3894 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
3895 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
3898 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
3899 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
3900 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
3901 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
3902 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3904 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
3905 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
3906 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3908 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
3909 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
3910 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
3911 were the same, the default setting (0) for
3912 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
3913 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
3916 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
3917 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
3918 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
3921 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
3922 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
3923 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
3924 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
3925 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3927 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3928 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
3929 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
3932 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3933 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
3934 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
3936 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
3937 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
3938 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
3939 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
3940 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
3941 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
3943 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
3944 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
3945 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
3946 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
3947 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3949 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3950 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
3951 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
3952 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
3953 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3955 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
3956 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
3957 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3959 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
3960 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
3961 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
3962 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
3965 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3966 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
3967 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
3968 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
3969 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
3970 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3971 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
3972 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
3973 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
3975 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
3976 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
3978 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
3979 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
3980 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
3981 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
3982 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3983 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
3984 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
3985 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
3986 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3987 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
3988 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
3990 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
3991 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
3992 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
3993 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3995 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
3996 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
3997 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
3998 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
3999 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
4001 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
4002 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
4003 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
4004 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
4006 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
4007 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4008 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4011 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
4012 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
4014 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4015 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4016 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4017 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4018 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4019 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4020 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4021 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4022 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4023 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4025 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
4026 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
4027 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
4028 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
4029 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4031 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
4032 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4033 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4034 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4036 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4037 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
4038 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
4039 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
4040 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
4041 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4042 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4043 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
4044 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
4045 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4047 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4048 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
4049 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
4050 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4051 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4052 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4053 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
4054 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
4055 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
4057 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
4058 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
4059 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4060 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
4061 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4062 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4063 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4064 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4065 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4066 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4067 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
4068 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
4069 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4070 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
4071 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4073 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
4074 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
4075 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
4076 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
4077 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
4078 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
4079 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
4080 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
4082 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
4083 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
4084 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
4085 reported by Keifer Bly.
4087 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4088 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
4089 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
4091 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
4092 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
4093 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
4094 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
4095 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
4096 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
4097 Closes ticket 27814.
4098 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
4099 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
4100 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
4101 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
4102 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
4103 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
4104 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
4105 Closes ticket 27799.
4106 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
4107 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
4108 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
4109 directory within the top-level src directory.
4110 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
4111 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
4112 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
4113 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
4114 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
4115 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
4116 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
4117 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
4118 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
4119 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
4120 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
4121 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
4122 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
4123 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
4124 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
4125 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
4126 Closes ticket 21349.
4127 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
4128 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
4129 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
4130 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
4131 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
4132 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
4133 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
4135 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
4136 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
4137 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
4140 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
4141 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
4142 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
4143 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
4144 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
4145 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
4146 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
4147 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
4148 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
4151 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
4152 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
4153 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
4154 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
4155 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
4156 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
4157 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
4158 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
4159 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
4160 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
4161 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
4162 Closes ticket 26367.
4165 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
4166 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
4168 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
4169 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
4170 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
4171 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
4172 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
4173 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
4174 Closes ticket 19566.
4176 o Documentation (onion services):
4177 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
4178 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
4179 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
4180 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
4181 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
4182 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
4183 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
4184 process. Closes ticket 28275.
4187 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
4188 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4189 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
4190 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
4191 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
4193 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4194 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
4195 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4197 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4198 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
4199 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
4200 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
4201 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4203 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4204 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
4205 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
4206 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
4207 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
4210 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4211 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4212 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4213 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4215 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4216 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
4217 Implements ticket 27252.
4218 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4219 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4220 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4221 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4222 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4223 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4224 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4226 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4227 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4228 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4229 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4231 o Minor features (geoip):
4232 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4233 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
4235 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4236 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
4237 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
4238 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
4239 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
4241 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
4242 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
4243 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4244 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
4245 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
4248 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4249 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4250 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4253 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4254 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
4255 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
4256 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
4257 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4259 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4260 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4261 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4263 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4264 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
4265 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4268 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4269 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4270 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4273 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
4274 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4276 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4277 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
4278 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
4281 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4282 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4283 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4285 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4286 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4287 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4290 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4291 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4292 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4293 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4294 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4296 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4297 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
4298 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
4299 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
4300 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
4301 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4303 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4304 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4305 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4308 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4309 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4310 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4311 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4312 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4313 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4314 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4315 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4317 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4318 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4319 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4320 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4322 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4323 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4324 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4325 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4326 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4328 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4329 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4330 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4331 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4332 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4333 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4335 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4336 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4337 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4338 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4339 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4340 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4342 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4343 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
4344 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
4345 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
4348 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4349 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4350 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4351 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4352 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4355 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
4356 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
4358 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4359 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
4360 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
4361 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
4363 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4364 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4366 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
4367 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
4368 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
4369 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
4371 o Minor features (geoip):
4372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4373 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
4375 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4376 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
4377 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
4378 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4381 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
4382 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
4383 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
4384 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4385 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
4386 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
4387 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
4390 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4391 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
4392 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
4393 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4395 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4396 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
4397 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
4398 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
4400 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4401 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
4402 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
4403 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4405 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4406 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
4407 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
4408 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
4409 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
4411 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4412 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
4413 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
4416 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4417 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
4418 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
4419 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
4420 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
4422 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4423 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
4424 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
4427 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4428 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
4429 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
4430 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4432 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4433 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
4434 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4436 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4437 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
4438 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
4441 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4442 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
4443 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
4444 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
4445 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4447 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4448 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
4449 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4452 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
4453 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4455 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4456 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
4457 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
4458 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
4460 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4461 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4463 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
4464 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
4465 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
4466 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
4468 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4469 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4472 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4473 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
4474 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
4475 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
4477 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4478 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
4479 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
4480 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
4482 o Minor features (geoip):
4483 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4484 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
4486 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4487 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
4488 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
4489 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4490 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
4491 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
4492 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
4494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4495 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
4496 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
4497 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
4498 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4499 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
4500 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
4501 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
4504 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4505 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
4506 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
4507 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4509 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4510 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
4511 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
4512 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
4514 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4515 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4516 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
4517 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
4518 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4520 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4521 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
4522 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
4523 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
4524 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
4526 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4527 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
4528 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
4531 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4532 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
4533 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
4534 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
4535 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
4537 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4538 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
4539 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
4542 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4543 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
4544 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
4547 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4548 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
4549 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
4552 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4553 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
4555 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
4556 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
4557 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
4558 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4560 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4561 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
4562 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
4563 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4565 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4566 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
4567 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4569 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4570 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
4571 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
4572 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
4573 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4574 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
4575 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
4578 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
4579 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
4580 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
4581 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
4582 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4584 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4585 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
4586 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
4587 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
4588 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4590 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4591 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
4592 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4595 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
4596 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4598 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4599 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
4600 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
4601 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
4603 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4604 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
4605 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
4606 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
4608 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4609 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
4610 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4612 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
4613 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
4614 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
4615 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
4617 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4618 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4621 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4622 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
4623 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
4624 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
4626 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4627 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
4628 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
4629 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
4631 o Minor features (geoip):
4632 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4633 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
4635 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4636 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
4637 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
4638 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4639 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
4640 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
4641 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
4643 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4644 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
4645 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
4646 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
4647 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4648 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
4649 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
4650 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
4653 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4654 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
4655 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
4656 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4658 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4659 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
4660 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
4661 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
4663 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4664 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4665 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
4666 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
4667 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4669 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4670 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
4671 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
4672 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
4673 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
4675 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4676 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
4677 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
4680 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4681 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
4682 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
4683 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4685 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4686 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
4687 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
4688 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
4689 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
4691 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4692 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
4693 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
4696 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4697 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
4698 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
4701 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4702 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
4703 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
4706 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4707 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
4708 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
4709 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4711 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4712 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
4713 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
4716 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4717 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
4719 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
4720 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
4721 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
4722 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
4723 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4724 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
4725 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
4727 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
4728 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4729 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
4730 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
4731 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4733 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4734 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
4735 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
4736 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4738 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4739 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
4740 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4742 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
4743 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
4744 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
4745 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
4746 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4747 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
4748 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
4751 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4752 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
4753 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
4754 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
4755 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4757 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
4758 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
4759 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
4760 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
4761 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4763 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
4764 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
4765 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4768 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
4769 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
4770 compilation and portability fixes.
4772 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
4773 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
4774 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
4775 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
4776 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
4777 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
4778 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
4779 our anti-denial-of-service code.
4781 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
4782 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4784 o New system requirements:
4785 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
4786 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
4787 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
4788 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
4790 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
4791 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
4792 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
4793 To disable the module, the configure option
4794 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
4795 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
4797 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
4798 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
4799 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
4800 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
4801 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
4802 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
4803 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
4804 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
4805 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
4806 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
4807 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
4809 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
4810 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
4811 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
4812 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
4813 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
4814 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
4815 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
4816 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
4817 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
4818 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
4819 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
4820 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
4821 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
4822 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
4823 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
4824 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
4825 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
4826 Tor's uptime (26009).
4828 o Minor features (accounting):
4829 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
4830 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
4831 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
4832 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
4834 o Minor features (bug workaround):
4835 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
4836 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
4837 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
4839 o Minor features (code quality):
4840 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
4841 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
4842 Closes ticket 25024.
4844 o Minor features (compatibility):
4845 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
4846 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
4847 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
4848 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
4849 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
4850 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
4852 o Minor features (compilation):
4853 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
4854 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
4855 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4856 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
4857 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
4858 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
4859 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
4860 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
4863 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
4864 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
4865 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
4866 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
4867 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
4868 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
4870 o Minor features (configuration):
4871 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
4872 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
4873 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
4874 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
4875 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
4877 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4878 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
4879 Implements ticket 27449.
4880 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
4881 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
4883 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
4884 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4886 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
4887 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
4888 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
4889 Implements ticket 27275.
4890 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
4891 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
4892 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
4893 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
4894 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
4896 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
4897 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
4900 o Minor features (control port):
4901 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
4902 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
4903 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
4904 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4905 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
4906 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
4907 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
4908 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
4909 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
4910 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
4912 o Minor features (controller):
4913 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
4914 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
4915 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
4917 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4918 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
4919 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
4920 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
4921 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
4922 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
4923 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
4925 o Minor features (directory authority):
4926 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
4927 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
4928 Closes ticket 23909.
4930 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
4931 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
4932 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
4933 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
4935 o Minor features (entry guards):
4936 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
4937 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
4939 o Minor features (geoip):
4940 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4941 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
4943 o Minor features (performance):
4944 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
4945 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
4946 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
4947 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
4949 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
4950 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
4952 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
4953 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
4955 o Minor features (testing):
4956 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
4957 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
4959 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
4960 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
4961 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
4962 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
4963 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
4964 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
4966 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
4967 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
4968 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
4969 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
4970 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
4972 o Minor features (unit tests):
4973 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
4974 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
4975 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
4978 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
4979 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
4980 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
4981 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
4982 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
4983 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
4985 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4986 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
4987 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
4988 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
4990 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
4991 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
4992 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4993 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
4994 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
4996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4997 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
4998 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
4999 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5000 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5001 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5002 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5003 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5005 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
5006 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
5007 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
5008 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5009 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
5010 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
5011 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5012 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
5013 Closes ticket 26245.
5014 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
5015 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
5016 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5018 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
5019 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5020 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5021 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5023 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5024 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5025 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5026 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5027 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
5030 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
5031 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
5032 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
5033 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5034 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
5035 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
5036 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
5037 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
5038 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
5039 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
5040 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5042 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
5043 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
5044 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
5047 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5048 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5049 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5052 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
5053 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
5054 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5055 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
5056 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
5057 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
5060 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
5061 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
5062 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
5063 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
5064 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
5065 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
5066 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5068 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
5069 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
5070 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
5071 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5073 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5074 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5075 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5076 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5077 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5079 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5080 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5081 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5084 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5085 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5086 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5088 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5089 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5091 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
5092 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
5093 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
5094 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
5095 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5097 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5098 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
5099 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
5101 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
5102 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
5103 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5104 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
5105 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
5108 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
5109 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
5110 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
5111 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5113 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5114 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
5115 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
5116 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
5117 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
5118 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
5119 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
5121 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5122 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5124 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
5125 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
5126 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5127 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
5128 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
5130 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5131 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5132 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
5133 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
5134 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5136 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
5137 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
5138 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
5139 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5141 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
5142 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
5143 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
5144 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
5147 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5148 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5149 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5150 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
5151 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
5152 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
5153 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
5154 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5155 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
5156 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
5158 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
5159 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
5160 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5161 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
5162 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
5163 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
5164 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
5166 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
5167 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
5168 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
5169 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
5170 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
5172 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
5173 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
5174 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
5177 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
5178 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
5179 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
5180 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
5181 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5183 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
5184 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5185 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5186 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5187 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5188 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5189 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5192 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
5193 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5194 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5195 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5196 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5198 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5199 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
5200 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
5201 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
5202 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
5205 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
5206 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
5207 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
5208 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
5209 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5211 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
5212 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5213 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5215 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5216 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
5217 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
5218 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5219 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
5220 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
5221 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
5222 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
5224 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
5225 confusing we renamed some functions and
5226 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
5227 router_should_check_reachability() and
5228 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
5229 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
5230 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
5231 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
5232 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
5234 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
5235 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
5237 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
5238 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
5239 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5240 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
5241 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
5242 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
5243 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
5244 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
5245 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
5246 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
5247 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
5248 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
5249 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
5250 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
5251 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
5252 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5253 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
5254 Closes ticket 25766.
5255 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
5256 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
5257 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
5258 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
5259 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
5260 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
5261 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
5262 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
5263 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
5264 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
5265 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5266 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
5267 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
5268 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
5270 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
5271 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
5272 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
5273 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
5274 before. Closes ticket 26016.
5275 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
5276 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
5277 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
5278 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
5280 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
5281 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
5282 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
5283 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5285 o Deprecated features:
5286 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
5287 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
5288 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
5289 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
5290 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
5291 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
5294 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
5295 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
5296 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
5297 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
5298 24378 and proposal 290.
5299 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
5300 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
5301 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
5302 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
5303 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
5304 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
5305 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
5306 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
5307 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
5308 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
5309 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
5310 their local router. Closes 25409.
5311 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
5312 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
5313 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
5314 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
5315 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
5316 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
5317 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
5318 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
5319 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
5320 Closes ticket 25268.
5323 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
5324 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
5325 bridge relays should upgrade.
5327 o Directory authority changes:
5328 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5329 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
5330 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
5333 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
5334 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
5335 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
5338 o Directory authority changes:
5339 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5340 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
5341 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
5343 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
5344 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
5345 Closes ticket 26343.
5347 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5348 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
5349 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
5350 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
5351 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5353 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5354 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
5355 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
5357 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
5358 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
5359 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
5360 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
5362 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
5363 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
5364 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
5366 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5367 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
5368 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
5369 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
5370 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
5371 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
5373 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
5374 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
5375 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
5376 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
5378 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5379 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
5380 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
5383 o Minor features (geoip):
5384 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5385 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
5387 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5388 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
5389 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
5390 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
5391 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5393 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5394 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
5395 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5397 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5398 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
5399 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
5400 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
5401 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5402 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
5403 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
5404 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
5407 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5408 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
5409 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
5410 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
5411 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
5412 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5414 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
5415 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
5416 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
5417 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
5418 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5420 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5421 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
5422 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
5423 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
5424 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5426 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5427 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
5428 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
5431 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5432 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
5433 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5435 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
5436 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
5437 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
5438 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
5440 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5441 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
5442 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5443 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
5444 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
5445 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
5446 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5448 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
5449 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
5450 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
5451 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
5454 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5455 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
5456 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5458 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5459 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
5460 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5462 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
5463 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5464 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
5465 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
5468 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
5469 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
5470 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
5471 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5473 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5474 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
5475 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
5477 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
5478 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
5479 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
5482 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
5483 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
5484 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
5487 o Directory authority changes:
5488 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
5489 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
5490 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
5492 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
5493 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
5494 Closes ticket 26343.
5496 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5497 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
5498 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
5499 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
5500 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5502 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
5503 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
5504 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
5505 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
5507 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5508 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
5509 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
5510 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
5511 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
5512 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
5514 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5515 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
5516 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
5519 o Minor features (geoip):
5520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5521 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
5523 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5524 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
5525 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
5526 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
5527 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5529 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5530 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
5531 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5533 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5534 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
5535 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
5536 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
5539 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5540 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
5541 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
5542 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
5543 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
5544 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5547 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
5548 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
5549 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
5550 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5552 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5553 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
5554 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
5557 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5558 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
5559 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5561 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
5562 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
5563 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
5564 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
5566 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5567 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
5568 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
5570 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
5571 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
5572 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
5575 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
5576 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
5577 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
5579 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
5580 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
5581 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
5582 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5584 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
5585 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
5586 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
5589 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5590 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
5591 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
5594 o Minor features (geoip):
5595 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5596 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
5598 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
5599 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
5600 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
5601 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
5603 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5604 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
5605 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
5606 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
5607 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
5610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5611 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
5612 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
5613 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
5614 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5616 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5617 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
5618 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
5619 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
5621 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5622 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
5623 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
5625 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
5626 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
5627 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
5628 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
5631 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5632 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
5633 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
5634 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5636 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
5637 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
5638 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
5639 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
5640 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5641 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
5642 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
5643 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
5647 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
5648 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
5649 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
5651 o Directory authority changes:
5652 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
5653 Closes ticket 26343.
5655 o Minor features (geoip):
5656 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5657 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
5659 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5660 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
5661 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
5662 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
5663 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
5664 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5666 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5667 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
5668 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5670 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5671 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
5672 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
5673 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
5674 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5676 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
5677 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
5678 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5680 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5681 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
5682 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
5683 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
5684 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
5685 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5688 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
5689 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
5690 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5692 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
5693 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
5694 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
5695 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
5696 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
5697 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
5699 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
5700 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5702 o New system requirements:
5703 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
5704 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
5706 o Major features (embedding):
5707 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
5708 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
5709 Closes ticket 23684.
5710 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
5711 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
5712 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
5713 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
5714 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
5715 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
5717 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
5718 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
5719 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
5720 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
5722 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
5723 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
5724 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
5725 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
5726 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
5728 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
5729 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
5732 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
5733 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
5734 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
5735 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
5736 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
5737 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
5738 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
5740 o Major features (onion services):
5741 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
5742 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
5743 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
5744 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
5745 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
5747 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
5748 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
5749 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
5750 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
5751 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
5752 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5754 o Major features (relay):
5755 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
5756 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
5757 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
5758 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
5759 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
5761 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
5762 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
5763 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
5764 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
5765 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
5766 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
5767 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
5768 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
5770 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5771 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
5772 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
5773 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
5774 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5776 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
5777 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
5778 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
5779 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
5780 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
5782 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5783 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
5784 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
5785 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5787 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
5788 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
5789 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
5790 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
5791 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
5792 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
5793 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
5794 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5796 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5797 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
5798 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
5799 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
5801 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5802 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
5803 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
5805 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
5806 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
5807 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
5808 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
5809 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
5810 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
5811 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
5813 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5814 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
5815 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
5816 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
5817 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5819 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5820 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
5821 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
5824 o Minor features (cleanup):
5825 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
5826 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
5828 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5829 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
5830 Closes ticket 26006.
5832 o Minor features (config options):
5833 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
5834 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
5835 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
5838 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5839 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
5840 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
5842 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
5843 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
5844 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
5845 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
5846 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
5847 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
5849 o Minor features (defensive programming):
5850 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
5851 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
5852 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
5853 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
5854 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
5855 once. Part of ticket 24337.
5856 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
5857 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
5858 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
5860 o Minor features (directory authority):
5861 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
5862 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
5864 o Minor features (embedding):
5865 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
5866 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
5867 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
5868 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
5869 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
5870 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
5871 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
5872 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
5873 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
5874 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
5875 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
5876 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
5877 Closes ticket 23848.
5878 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
5879 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
5880 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
5882 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5883 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
5884 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
5885 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
5886 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
5887 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
5888 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
5889 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
5892 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
5893 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
5894 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
5895 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
5896 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
5897 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
5898 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
5900 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
5901 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
5902 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
5903 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
5904 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
5905 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
5906 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
5907 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
5908 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
5909 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
5910 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
5911 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
5913 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
5914 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
5915 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
5917 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
5918 Implements ticket 24791.
5920 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
5921 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
5922 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
5923 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
5924 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
5925 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
5927 o Minor features (geoip):
5928 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
5929 database. Closes ticket 26104.
5931 o Minor features (heartbeat):
5932 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
5933 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
5936 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
5937 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
5938 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
5939 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
5940 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
5942 o Minor features (IPv6):
5943 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
5944 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
5945 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
5946 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
5947 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
5950 o Minor features (log messages):
5951 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
5952 information about memory usage from the different compression
5953 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
5954 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
5955 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
5956 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
5957 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
5959 o Minor features (logging):
5960 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
5961 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
5962 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
5965 o Minor features (performance):
5966 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
5967 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
5968 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
5969 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
5971 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
5972 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
5973 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
5974 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
5975 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
5976 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
5977 Implements ticket 24374.
5979 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
5980 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
5981 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
5982 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
5983 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
5985 o Minor features (performance, windows):
5986 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
5987 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
5988 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
5991 o Minor features (sandbox):
5992 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
5993 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
5994 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
5996 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
5997 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
5998 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
5999 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
6000 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
6002 o Minor features (testing):
6003 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
6006 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
6007 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
6008 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
6009 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
6010 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
6011 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
6012 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
6013 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
6014 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
6016 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
6017 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
6018 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
6019 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
6020 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
6021 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
6022 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
6023 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
6024 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
6027 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6028 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6029 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6030 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
6033 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
6034 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
6036 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
6037 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
6038 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
6039 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
6040 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6042 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6043 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6044 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6047 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6048 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
6049 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
6050 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6052 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6053 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
6054 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
6055 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6056 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
6057 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
6058 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6060 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6061 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
6062 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
6063 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6065 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6066 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6067 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6068 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6069 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6071 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
6072 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
6073 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
6074 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
6077 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6078 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6079 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6080 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6081 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6083 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6084 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
6085 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
6086 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
6087 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
6090 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
6091 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
6092 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
6093 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
6094 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
6096 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
6097 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
6098 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
6101 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
6102 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
6103 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
6105 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
6106 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6107 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
6108 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
6109 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
6111 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
6112 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6113 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
6114 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6116 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
6117 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
6118 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6119 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
6120 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
6121 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6123 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6124 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
6125 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
6126 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
6128 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6129 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6130 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6132 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6133 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
6134 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
6135 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6137 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
6138 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
6139 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
6140 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
6143 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6144 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
6145 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
6146 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
6147 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6148 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
6151 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
6152 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
6153 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
6154 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6156 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6157 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
6158 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
6160 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6161 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
6162 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
6163 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
6164 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
6165 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6168 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
6169 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6170 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
6171 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
6172 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
6173 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6175 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6176 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
6177 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
6178 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
6180 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6181 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
6182 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
6183 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
6184 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
6186 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
6187 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
6188 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
6189 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
6190 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
6191 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6193 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
6194 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
6195 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
6196 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
6197 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
6198 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6199 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
6200 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
6201 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
6202 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
6203 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
6204 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6206 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6207 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
6208 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6210 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
6211 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
6212 would call the Rust implementation of
6213 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
6214 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
6215 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
6216 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
6217 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6219 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
6220 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
6221 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
6222 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
6224 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6225 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6226 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
6227 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
6229 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
6230 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6232 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
6233 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
6234 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
6235 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
6236 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
6237 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
6239 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6240 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6241 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6242 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
6243 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
6245 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
6247 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
6248 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
6249 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
6251 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
6253 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
6254 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
6255 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
6256 "aruna1234" and teor.
6257 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
6258 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
6259 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
6260 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
6262 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
6263 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
6264 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
6265 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
6266 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
6267 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
6268 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
6269 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
6270 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
6271 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
6273 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
6274 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
6277 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
6279 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
6280 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
6281 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
6282 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
6284 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
6285 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
6286 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
6287 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
6289 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
6290 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
6291 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
6292 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
6293 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
6295 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
6296 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
6297 adding very little except for unit test.
6299 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
6300 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
6301 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
6302 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
6304 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
6305 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
6306 const. Implements ticket 24489.
6308 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6309 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
6310 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
6312 o Documentation (man page):
6313 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
6314 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
6317 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
6318 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
6319 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
6323 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
6324 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
6327 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
6328 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
6330 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
6331 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
6333 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
6336 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
6337 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
6338 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
6340 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
6341 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
6342 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
6343 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
6346 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6347 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
6348 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
6349 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
6352 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6353 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
6354 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
6355 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
6356 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
6357 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
6358 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
6359 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
6360 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
6361 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
6362 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
6363 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
6364 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
6366 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6367 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
6368 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
6370 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6371 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
6372 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
6373 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
6374 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
6375 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
6376 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6378 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6379 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
6380 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6382 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6383 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
6384 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
6385 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
6386 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
6387 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
6388 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6390 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6391 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
6392 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
6393 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
6395 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6396 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
6397 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
6398 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
6400 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6401 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
6402 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
6403 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
6404 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
6405 Closes ticket 24978.
6407 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
6408 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
6409 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
6410 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
6411 information. Closes ticket 24801.
6412 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
6413 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
6414 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
6415 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
6417 o Minor features (geoip):
6418 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6421 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6422 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
6423 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
6424 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
6425 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6427 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6428 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
6429 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
6430 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
6431 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
6434 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
6435 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
6436 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
6437 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
6440 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6441 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
6442 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
6443 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
6444 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
6445 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
6446 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
6447 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
6448 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
6449 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
6450 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
6453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
6454 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
6455 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6457 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6458 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
6459 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
6462 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6463 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
6464 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
6465 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
6466 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
6467 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
6468 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
6470 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6471 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
6472 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6473 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
6474 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
6475 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
6476 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
6477 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
6478 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
6481 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6482 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
6483 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
6484 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
6485 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
6486 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6488 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6489 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
6490 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
6491 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6493 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
6494 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
6495 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
6496 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
6497 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
6500 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6501 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
6502 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
6503 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
6504 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
6505 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6507 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6508 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
6509 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
6510 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
6511 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
6512 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
6513 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6514 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
6515 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
6516 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6517 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
6518 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6520 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6521 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
6522 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
6523 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6525 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6526 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
6527 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
6528 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6530 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
6531 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
6532 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
6533 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
6536 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
6537 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
6538 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
6539 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
6540 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
6542 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6543 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
6545 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
6546 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6548 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6549 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
6550 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
6553 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
6554 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6557 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
6558 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
6560 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
6561 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
6563 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
6566 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
6567 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
6568 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
6570 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6571 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
6572 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
6573 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
6576 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
6577 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
6578 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
6579 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
6580 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
6581 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
6582 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
6583 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
6584 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
6585 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
6586 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
6587 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
6588 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
6590 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
6591 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
6592 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
6593 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
6594 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
6595 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
6596 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
6597 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
6598 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
6600 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
6601 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
6602 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
6603 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
6604 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
6605 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
6606 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6608 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
6609 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
6610 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
6611 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
6613 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
6614 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
6615 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
6616 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
6617 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
6618 Closes ticket 24978.
6620 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
6621 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
6622 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
6623 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
6625 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6626 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
6627 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
6628 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
6629 information. Closes ticket 24801.
6630 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
6631 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
6632 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
6633 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
6635 o Minor features (geoip):
6636 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6639 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6640 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
6641 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
6643 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
6644 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
6645 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
6646 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
6647 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6649 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
6650 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
6651 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
6652 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
6653 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
6655 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
6656 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
6657 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
6658 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
6659 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
6662 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6663 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
6664 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6666 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6667 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
6668 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
6671 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6672 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
6673 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
6674 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
6675 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
6676 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
6677 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
6679 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
6680 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
6681 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
6682 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
6683 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
6686 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
6687 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
6688 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
6689 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
6690 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
6691 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6693 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
6694 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
6695 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
6696 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6698 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
6699 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
6700 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
6701 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
6702 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
6703 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
6704 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6705 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
6706 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
6707 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6708 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
6709 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6711 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
6712 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
6713 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
6714 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
6717 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6718 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
6719 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
6720 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
6721 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
6723 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6724 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
6726 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
6727 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6730 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
6731 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
6732 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
6735 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
6736 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
6738 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
6739 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
6740 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
6741 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
6742 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
6743 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
6746 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
6747 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
6749 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
6752 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
6753 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
6754 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
6755 the DoS mitigations.)
6757 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6758 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
6759 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
6760 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
6763 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6764 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
6765 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
6766 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6768 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6769 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
6770 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
6771 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
6772 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
6773 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
6774 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
6775 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
6776 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
6777 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
6778 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
6779 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
6780 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
6782 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6783 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
6784 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
6785 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
6786 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
6787 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
6788 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6789 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
6790 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
6791 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
6792 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6794 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6795 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
6796 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6798 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6799 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
6800 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
6801 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
6802 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
6803 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
6804 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6806 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6807 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
6808 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
6809 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6811 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6812 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
6813 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
6814 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
6816 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6817 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
6818 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
6819 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
6820 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
6821 Closes ticket 24978.
6823 o Minor features (geoip):
6824 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6827 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6828 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
6829 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
6832 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6833 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
6834 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
6835 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
6836 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6838 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6839 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
6840 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
6841 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
6842 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
6843 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
6844 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
6846 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6847 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
6848 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
6849 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
6850 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
6852 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6853 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
6854 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
6855 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6857 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6858 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
6859 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
6860 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
6861 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6863 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6864 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
6865 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
6866 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6868 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6869 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
6870 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
6871 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6873 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6874 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
6875 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
6876 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6878 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6879 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
6881 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
6882 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6884 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
6885 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
6886 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
6888 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
6889 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
6890 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
6891 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
6892 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6894 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
6895 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
6896 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
6898 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
6899 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
6900 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
6904 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
6905 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
6907 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
6908 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
6909 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
6910 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
6911 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
6912 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
6914 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
6915 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
6916 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
6917 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
6918 with the 0.2.9 series.
6920 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
6921 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6923 o Directory authority changes:
6924 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6925 Closes ticket 23910.
6926 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6927 Closes ticket 23592.
6928 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6929 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6930 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6931 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6932 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6935 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
6936 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
6937 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
6938 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
6939 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
6940 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
6943 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
6944 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
6946 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
6949 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
6952 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
6954 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
6956 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
6958 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
6959 they are 56 characters long, as in
6960 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
6962 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
6963 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
6964 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
6965 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
6966 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
6969 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
6970 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
6971 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
6972 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
6973 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
6974 options. For more information, see our blog post at
6975 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
6977 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
6978 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
6979 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
6980 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
6981 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
6982 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
6983 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
6984 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
6985 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
6986 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
6987 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
6988 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
6990 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
6991 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
6992 more information, see the design paper at
6993 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
6994 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
6995 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
6996 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
6998 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
6999 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
7000 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
7001 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
7002 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
7003 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
7004 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
7005 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
7007 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
7008 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
7009 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
7010 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
7013 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
7014 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
7015 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
7016 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
7017 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
7018 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
7019 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
7020 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
7021 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
7022 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
7023 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
7024 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
7027 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
7028 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
7029 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
7030 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
7031 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
7032 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7033 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
7034 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
7035 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7037 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7038 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7039 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7040 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7041 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7042 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7043 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7044 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7045 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7046 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
7047 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
7050 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
7051 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
7052 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
7053 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
7054 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
7055 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
7056 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7058 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
7059 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
7060 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
7061 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
7062 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
7063 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
7066 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
7067 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7068 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7069 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7071 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
7072 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
7073 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
7074 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
7076 o Minor features (bridge):
7077 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
7078 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
7079 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
7080 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
7081 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
7082 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
7083 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
7084 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
7085 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
7086 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
7087 related to ticket 23080.
7089 o Minor features (bug detection):
7090 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
7091 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
7092 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
7094 o Minor features (build, compilation):
7095 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
7096 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
7097 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
7098 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
7099 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
7100 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
7101 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
7102 Closes ticket 23643.
7104 o Minor features (client):
7105 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
7106 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
7107 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
7108 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
7109 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
7110 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
7111 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
7112 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
7113 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
7114 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
7115 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
7116 Resolves ticket 23670.
7118 o Minor features (command line):
7119 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
7120 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
7121 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
7123 o Minor features (control port):
7124 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
7125 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
7126 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
7128 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
7129 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
7131 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
7132 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
7133 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
7134 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
7135 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
7136 Closes ticket 23237.
7137 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
7138 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
7140 o Minor features (development support):
7141 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
7142 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
7143 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
7144 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
7145 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
7146 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
7148 o Minor features (directory authority):
7149 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
7150 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
7151 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
7152 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
7154 o Minor features (ed25519):
7155 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
7156 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
7157 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
7159 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
7160 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
7161 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
7163 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7164 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7165 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7166 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7167 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7168 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7169 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7170 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7171 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7173 o Minor features (geoip):
7174 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7177 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
7178 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
7179 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
7180 another program, regardless of the settings of
7181 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
7182 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
7183 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
7185 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7186 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7187 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7189 o Minor features (logging):
7190 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
7192 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
7193 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
7195 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
7196 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
7197 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
7198 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
7199 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
7200 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
7201 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
7202 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
7203 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
7204 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
7206 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
7207 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
7209 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
7210 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
7211 the circuit identifier(s).
7212 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
7213 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
7215 o Minor features (portability):
7216 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
7217 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
7219 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
7220 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
7221 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
7222 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
7224 o Minor features (relay):
7225 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
7226 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
7227 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
7228 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
7229 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
7230 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
7231 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
7232 results. Closes ticket 22731.
7234 o Minor features (relay statistics):
7235 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7236 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7237 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7239 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
7240 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
7241 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
7242 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
7243 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
7245 o Minor features (robustness):
7246 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
7247 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
7249 o Minor features (startup, safety):
7250 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
7251 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
7254 o Minor features (static analysis):
7255 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
7256 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
7259 o Minor features (testing):
7260 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
7261 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
7262 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
7263 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
7265 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
7266 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
7267 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
7268 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
7269 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
7271 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
7272 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
7273 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
7274 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
7275 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
7278 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7279 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
7280 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
7283 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
7284 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
7285 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
7286 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
7287 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7288 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
7289 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
7290 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
7291 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7292 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
7293 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
7294 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
7295 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7297 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
7298 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
7299 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
7300 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7302 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
7303 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
7304 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
7305 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
7306 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
7307 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
7308 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
7309 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
7310 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7311 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
7312 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7313 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
7314 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
7315 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
7316 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
7317 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
7318 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7320 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
7321 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
7322 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
7323 Coverity as CID 1415728.
7325 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7326 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
7327 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
7328 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7330 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
7331 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
7332 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
7333 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
7334 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
7335 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
7336 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
7337 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7339 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7340 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
7341 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
7342 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
7343 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7344 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
7345 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
7346 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
7347 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
7348 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
7349 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
7350 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
7351 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
7352 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
7355 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
7356 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
7357 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
7360 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
7361 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
7362 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
7363 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
7365 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7366 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
7367 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
7370 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
7371 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
7372 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
7373 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7375 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
7376 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
7377 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7378 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
7379 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
7380 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
7381 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
7382 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
7383 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
7386 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7387 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
7388 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
7389 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
7390 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7392 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
7393 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
7394 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
7395 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
7396 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
7397 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
7399 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
7400 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
7403 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7404 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
7405 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7406 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
7407 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
7408 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7410 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
7411 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
7412 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
7413 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7415 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
7416 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
7417 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
7418 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
7419 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
7420 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7422 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
7423 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
7424 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
7425 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
7426 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
7427 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
7428 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
7431 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
7432 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
7433 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
7434 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7436 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7437 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
7438 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
7439 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
7440 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7441 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
7442 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
7443 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7444 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
7445 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
7447 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
7448 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
7449 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
7451 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
7452 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
7453 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
7455 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
7456 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7457 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
7458 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
7459 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
7460 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
7462 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
7463 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
7464 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
7465 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
7466 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
7467 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7469 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
7470 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
7471 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7473 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
7474 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
7475 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
7476 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
7477 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
7480 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
7481 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
7482 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
7483 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
7484 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
7485 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7487 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7488 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
7489 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
7490 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
7491 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7492 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
7493 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
7495 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
7496 only fetch the service descriptor once.
7497 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7498 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7499 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7500 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
7501 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
7502 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
7503 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7505 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7506 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7507 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7508 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7509 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7510 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7511 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7512 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7513 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7514 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7515 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7516 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7518 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7519 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
7520 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7521 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
7522 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
7523 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
7526 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7527 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
7528 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
7529 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
7530 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
7531 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
7532 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
7533 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7534 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
7535 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
7536 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
7537 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7539 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7540 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
7541 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7542 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
7543 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
7544 Closes ticket 24109.
7545 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
7546 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7547 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
7548 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
7550 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
7551 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
7553 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
7554 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
7555 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
7556 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
7557 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
7558 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
7559 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
7560 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7561 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
7562 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
7563 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7565 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
7566 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
7567 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
7568 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7570 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7571 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
7572 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
7574 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
7575 function from the general code to handle channel state
7576 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
7577 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
7578 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
7579 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
7580 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
7581 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
7582 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
7583 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
7585 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
7586 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
7588 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
7589 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
7590 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
7591 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
7592 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
7593 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
7594 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
7595 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
7596 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
7597 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
7598 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
7599 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
7601 o Deprecated features:
7602 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
7603 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
7604 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
7605 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
7606 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
7607 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
7611 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
7612 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
7613 section. Closes ticket 24254.
7614 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
7615 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
7616 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
7617 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
7618 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
7619 Closes ticket 18736.
7620 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
7621 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
7622 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
7623 Closes ticket 15645.
7624 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
7625 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
7626 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
7627 file. Closes ticket 21148.
7630 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
7631 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
7632 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
7633 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
7634 Closes ticket 21031.
7635 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
7636 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
7639 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
7640 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
7641 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
7642 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
7644 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7645 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
7646 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
7647 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
7648 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
7649 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
7650 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
7651 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
7652 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
7653 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
7654 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
7656 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
7657 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
7658 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
7659 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
7660 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
7661 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
7662 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
7665 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7666 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
7667 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
7668 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
7669 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
7671 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7672 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
7673 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
7674 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
7675 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
7676 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7677 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
7678 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
7679 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7681 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7682 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
7683 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
7684 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
7685 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
7686 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
7689 o Minor features (bridge):
7690 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
7691 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
7692 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
7693 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
7696 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7697 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
7700 o Minor features (geoip):
7701 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7704 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7705 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
7706 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
7707 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
7708 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7710 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7711 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
7712 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7714 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7715 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
7716 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
7717 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
7718 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
7719 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7721 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7722 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
7723 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
7726 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7727 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
7728 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
7729 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
7730 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7733 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
7734 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7735 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
7736 to another of the releases coming out today.
7738 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
7739 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
7740 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7742 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7743 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
7744 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
7745 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
7746 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
7747 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
7748 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
7749 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
7750 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
7751 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
7752 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
7754 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
7755 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
7756 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
7757 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
7758 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
7759 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
7760 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
7763 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7764 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
7765 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
7766 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
7767 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
7769 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7770 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
7771 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
7772 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
7773 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
7774 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7775 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
7776 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
7777 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7779 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7780 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
7781 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
7782 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
7783 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
7784 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
7787 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7788 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
7789 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
7790 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
7791 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
7792 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
7794 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
7795 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
7796 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
7797 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
7798 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
7801 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7802 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
7805 o Minor features (geoip):
7806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7809 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7810 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
7811 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
7812 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
7813 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7815 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7816 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
7817 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7819 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7820 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
7821 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
7822 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
7823 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
7824 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7826 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7827 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
7828 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
7829 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
7830 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7832 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7833 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
7834 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
7837 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
7838 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7839 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
7840 to another of the releases coming out today.
7842 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7843 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
7844 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
7845 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
7846 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
7847 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
7850 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7851 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
7852 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
7853 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
7854 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
7855 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
7856 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
7857 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
7858 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
7859 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
7860 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
7862 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
7863 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
7864 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
7865 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
7866 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
7867 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
7868 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
7871 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7872 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
7873 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
7874 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
7875 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
7877 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7878 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
7879 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
7880 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
7881 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
7882 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
7884 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
7885 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
7886 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
7887 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
7888 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
7891 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7892 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
7895 o Minor features (geoip):
7896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7899 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7900 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
7901 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
7902 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
7903 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
7904 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
7906 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7907 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
7908 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
7909 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
7910 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7912 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7913 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
7914 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7916 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7917 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
7918 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
7919 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
7920 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
7921 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7923 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7924 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
7925 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
7926 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
7927 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7929 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7930 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
7931 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
7934 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
7935 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7936 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
7937 to another of the releases coming out today.
7939 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
7940 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
7941 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7943 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7944 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
7945 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
7946 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
7947 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
7948 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
7949 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
7950 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
7951 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
7952 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
7953 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
7954 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
7955 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
7956 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
7957 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
7960 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7961 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
7962 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
7963 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
7964 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
7966 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7967 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
7968 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
7969 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
7970 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
7973 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
7974 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
7975 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
7976 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
7977 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
7980 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7981 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
7984 o Minor features (geoip):
7985 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7988 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7989 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
7990 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
7993 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
7994 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7995 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
7996 to another of the releases coming out today.
7998 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
7999 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
8000 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8002 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8003 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8004 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8005 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8006 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8007 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8008 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8009 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8010 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8011 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8012 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8013 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8014 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8015 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8016 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8019 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8020 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8021 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8022 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8023 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8024 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8026 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
8027 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8028 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8029 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8030 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8033 o Minor features (geoip):
8034 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8038 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
8039 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8040 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8042 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
8043 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
8044 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8046 o Directory authority changes:
8047 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8048 Closes ticket 23910.
8049 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8050 Closes ticket 23592.
8052 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8053 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8054 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8055 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8056 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8058 o Minor features (geoip):
8059 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8062 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8063 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8064 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8065 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8066 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8067 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8068 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8069 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8070 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8072 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8073 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8074 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8075 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8076 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8077 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8078 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8079 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8080 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8083 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
8084 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8085 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
8086 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8088 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
8089 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
8090 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8092 o Directory authority changes:
8093 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8094 Closes ticket 23910.
8095 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8096 Closes ticket 23592.
8098 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8099 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8100 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8101 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8103 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8104 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8105 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8106 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8107 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8109 o Minor features (geoip):
8110 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8114 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
8115 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8116 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
8117 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8119 o Directory authority changes:
8120 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8121 Closes ticket 23910.
8122 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8123 Closes ticket 23592.
8125 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8126 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8127 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8128 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8130 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8131 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8132 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8133 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8134 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8136 o Minor features (geoip):
8137 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8140 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8141 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
8142 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
8143 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
8144 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
8145 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
8146 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
8147 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
8150 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8151 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
8152 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8155 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
8156 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
8157 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
8158 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
8159 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8160 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
8163 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
8164 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
8165 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
8166 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
8168 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
8169 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
8170 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8172 o Directory authority changes:
8173 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8174 Closes ticket 23910.
8175 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8176 Closes ticket 23592.
8178 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8179 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8180 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8181 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8183 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8184 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8185 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8186 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8187 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8189 o Minor features (geoip):
8190 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8193 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8194 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
8195 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
8196 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
8197 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
8198 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
8199 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
8200 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
8203 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8204 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
8205 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
8206 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8208 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8209 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
8210 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8212 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8213 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
8214 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
8215 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
8216 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
8217 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8218 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
8221 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
8222 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
8223 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
8224 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
8225 a new directory authority, Bastet.
8227 o Directory authority changes:
8228 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8229 Closes ticket 23910.
8230 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8231 Closes ticket 23592.
8233 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8234 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8235 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8236 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8238 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8239 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8240 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8241 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8242 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8244 o Minor features (geoip):
8245 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8248 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8249 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
8250 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
8251 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
8253 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8254 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
8255 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
8258 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8259 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
8260 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
8262 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8263 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
8264 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
8265 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8267 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8268 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
8269 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8271 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8272 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
8273 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
8277 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
8278 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
8281 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
8282 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
8283 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
8284 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8286 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
8287 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
8288 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
8289 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
8291 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8292 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8293 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8294 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8295 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8298 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8301 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8302 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
8303 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
8306 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8307 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8308 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8309 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8310 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8311 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8312 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8313 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8314 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8316 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8317 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8318 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8319 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8320 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8321 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8322 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8323 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8324 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8327 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
8328 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
8331 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
8332 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
8333 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
8334 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8336 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
8337 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
8338 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
8339 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
8340 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
8341 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
8342 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
8344 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
8345 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
8346 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
8347 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8349 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
8350 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
8351 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8353 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8354 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8355 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8356 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8358 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8359 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8360 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8361 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8362 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8364 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8365 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8366 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8367 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8369 o Minor features (geoip):
8370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8373 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8374 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
8375 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
8376 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
8378 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8379 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
8380 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8381 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
8382 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8383 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
8384 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
8385 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8387 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8388 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
8389 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8391 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8392 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
8393 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
8396 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8397 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
8398 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8399 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
8400 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8402 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8403 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8404 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8405 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8406 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8407 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8409 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8410 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8411 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8412 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8413 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8414 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8415 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8416 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8417 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8419 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8420 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8421 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8422 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8424 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8425 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8426 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8428 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8429 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8430 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8431 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8432 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8434 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
8435 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
8436 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
8439 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8440 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
8441 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
8442 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
8443 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8445 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8446 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8447 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8448 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8449 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8450 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8451 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8452 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8453 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8456 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
8457 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
8460 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
8461 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
8462 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
8463 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8465 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8466 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8467 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8468 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8471 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8474 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8475 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
8476 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8478 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8479 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
8480 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8481 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
8482 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8484 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8485 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8486 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8487 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8489 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8490 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
8491 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
8493 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
8494 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
8495 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
8496 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
8499 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
8500 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
8502 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
8503 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
8504 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
8505 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
8506 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
8507 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
8508 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
8510 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
8511 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
8512 disabled. For more information, see
8513 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8515 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
8516 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
8517 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
8518 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
8519 with the 0.2.9 series.
8521 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
8522 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8525 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
8526 pkg-config tool at build time.
8528 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
8529 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
8530 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
8531 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8532 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
8534 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
8535 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8536 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8537 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8538 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8539 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8540 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8541 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8542 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8544 o Major features (directory protocol):
8545 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
8546 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
8547 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
8548 now request these documents when available. When both client and
8549 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
8550 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
8551 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
8552 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
8553 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
8554 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
8555 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
8556 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
8557 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
8558 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
8559 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
8560 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
8561 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
8563 o Major features (experimental):
8564 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
8565 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
8566 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
8567 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
8568 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
8569 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
8570 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
8572 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
8573 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
8574 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
8575 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
8576 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
8577 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
8580 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
8581 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
8582 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
8583 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
8584 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
8585 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
8586 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
8587 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
8588 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
8589 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
8592 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8593 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
8594 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
8595 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8596 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8597 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8598 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8601 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
8602 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
8603 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
8604 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
8605 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
8606 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
8608 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
8609 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
8610 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
8611 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
8612 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
8613 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
8614 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
8615 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
8616 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8617 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
8618 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
8619 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
8620 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
8621 Otherwise it is at info.
8623 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8624 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
8625 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
8626 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8627 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
8628 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
8629 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8631 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
8632 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8633 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8634 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8636 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
8637 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8638 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8639 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8640 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8642 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
8643 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8644 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8645 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8646 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8647 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8648 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8651 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
8652 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
8653 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
8654 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
8655 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
8656 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
8657 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
8658 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8659 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
8660 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
8661 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
8662 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
8663 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
8666 o Minor features (security, windows):
8667 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
8668 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
8669 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
8670 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
8671 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
8673 o Minor features (bridge authority):
8674 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
8675 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
8677 o Minor features (code style):
8678 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8679 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8680 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8682 o Minor features (config options):
8683 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
8684 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
8685 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
8686 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
8687 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
8688 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
8689 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
8690 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
8692 o Minor features (controller):
8693 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
8694 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
8696 o Minor features (defaults):
8697 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
8698 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
8699 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
8700 can. Closes ticket 21407.
8701 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
8702 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
8703 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
8704 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
8705 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
8706 Closes ticket 21641.
8708 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8709 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
8710 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
8711 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
8714 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8715 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
8716 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
8717 attempt for bug 23105.
8718 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
8719 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
8720 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
8721 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
8722 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
8723 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
8724 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
8726 o Minor features (directory authority):
8727 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
8728 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
8729 Closes ticket 22348.
8731 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
8732 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
8733 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
8734 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
8735 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
8738 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8739 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
8740 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
8741 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8742 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8743 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8744 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8746 o Minor features (geoip):
8747 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8750 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
8751 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
8752 introduction points than specified in
8753 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
8754 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
8755 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
8756 21594; closes ticket 21622.
8757 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
8758 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
8759 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
8760 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
8762 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8763 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
8764 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
8765 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
8766 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
8767 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
8768 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
8769 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
8770 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
8771 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
8773 o Minor features (logging):
8774 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
8775 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
8776 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
8777 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
8780 o Minor features (performance):
8781 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
8782 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
8784 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
8785 speed some controller functions.
8787 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
8788 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
8789 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
8790 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
8792 o Minor features (relay, performance):
8793 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
8794 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
8795 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
8796 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
8797 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
8800 o Minor features (safety):
8801 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
8802 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
8803 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
8806 o Minor features (testing):
8807 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
8809 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
8810 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
8811 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
8812 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
8813 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
8814 on. Closes ticket 21439.
8815 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
8816 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
8817 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
8818 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
8819 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
8820 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
8821 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
8822 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
8823 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
8824 21507. Partially implements 21470.
8826 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
8827 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
8828 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
8829 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
8831 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8832 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
8833 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
8834 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
8837 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
8838 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
8839 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8840 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
8841 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8842 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
8843 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
8844 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
8847 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8848 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
8849 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8851 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
8852 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
8853 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
8854 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
8855 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
8856 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8858 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8859 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
8860 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8862 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
8863 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
8864 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
8865 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
8866 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
8867 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
8868 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8869 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
8870 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
8871 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
8872 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
8873 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
8874 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
8875 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
8877 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8878 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
8879 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8880 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
8881 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8882 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
8883 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8884 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
8885 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
8886 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
8887 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
8888 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8890 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8891 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8892 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8894 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
8895 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8896 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8897 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8898 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8899 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8901 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
8902 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
8903 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
8904 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
8905 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8906 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8907 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8908 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8909 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8910 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8911 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8912 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8914 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8915 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
8916 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
8917 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
8918 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
8919 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
8920 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
8921 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
8923 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
8924 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
8925 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8926 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
8927 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
8928 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8930 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
8931 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
8932 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
8935 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
8936 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
8937 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
8938 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
8939 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
8941 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8942 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
8943 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8944 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
8945 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
8946 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8947 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
8948 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8949 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
8950 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
8951 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8953 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
8954 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8955 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8956 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8958 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8959 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
8960 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
8961 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
8962 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
8963 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
8964 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
8965 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
8966 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
8967 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
8968 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8969 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
8970 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
8971 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
8974 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
8975 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
8976 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
8977 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
8978 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
8979 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8981 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8982 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8983 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8984 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8985 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8986 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8987 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8989 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8990 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
8991 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
8992 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
8993 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
8994 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
8995 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8996 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
8997 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
8998 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
8999 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9000 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
9001 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
9003 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
9004 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
9005 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
9006 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
9008 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
9009 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
9010 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
9012 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
9013 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
9014 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
9015 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9017 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9018 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
9019 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
9020 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9022 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9023 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
9024 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9025 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
9026 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
9027 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9028 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
9029 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
9030 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
9032 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
9033 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
9034 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
9035 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
9036 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
9037 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
9038 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
9041 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
9042 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
9043 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
9044 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
9045 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
9046 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
9048 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9049 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9050 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9051 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
9052 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
9053 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9054 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
9055 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9056 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
9057 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
9058 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
9059 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
9060 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
9061 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9062 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
9063 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
9066 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
9067 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
9068 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
9069 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
9070 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9072 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
9073 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9074 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9075 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9076 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9077 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9078 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9080 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
9081 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
9082 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9084 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9085 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
9086 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
9087 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
9088 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
9089 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
9090 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
9091 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
9092 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
9093 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
9094 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
9095 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
9097 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
9098 Resolves ticket 22213.
9099 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
9100 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
9101 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
9102 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
9103 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
9104 types. Closes ticket 21651.
9105 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
9106 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
9109 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
9111 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
9112 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
9114 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
9115 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
9116 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
9118 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
9120 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
9121 Closes ticket 21873.
9122 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
9123 Closes ticket 21151.
9124 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
9125 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
9127 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
9128 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9129 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
9130 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
9132 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
9133 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
9134 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
9135 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
9136 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
9137 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
9138 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
9139 default behavior is now unavailable.
9140 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
9141 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
9142 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
9143 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
9144 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
9145 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
9146 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
9148 o Removed features (tools):
9149 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
9150 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
9151 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
9152 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
9153 required. Closes ticket 21842.
9156 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
9157 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
9158 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
9159 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
9161 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9162 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9163 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9164 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9165 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9166 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9167 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9168 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9169 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9171 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9172 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
9173 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9174 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
9176 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9177 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9178 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9179 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9180 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9182 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9183 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9186 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
9187 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
9188 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
9189 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
9191 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9192 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
9193 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9194 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
9195 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9196 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
9197 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
9198 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
9201 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9202 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
9203 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
9206 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9207 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
9208 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
9209 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
9210 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
9211 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9213 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9214 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
9215 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
9216 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9218 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9219 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
9220 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9222 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
9223 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
9224 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9227 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
9228 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
9229 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
9230 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
9231 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
9234 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
9237 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9238 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
9239 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
9240 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
9241 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
9242 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
9244 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9245 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
9246 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
9247 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9249 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9250 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
9251 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
9252 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9254 o Minor features (geoip):
9255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9258 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9259 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
9260 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
9261 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
9262 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9264 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9265 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
9266 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
9267 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
9268 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9270 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9271 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9272 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9273 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9274 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9275 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9276 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9277 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9278 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9281 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
9282 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
9283 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9284 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9285 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
9287 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
9288 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
9289 bugfixes described below.
9291 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
9292 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9293 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
9294 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
9295 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9296 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9297 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9298 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9301 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9302 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
9303 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
9304 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
9305 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
9306 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
9307 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
9310 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9311 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
9312 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
9313 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
9314 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
9315 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
9316 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
9317 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9318 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
9319 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
9320 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
9321 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
9322 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
9325 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9326 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
9327 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
9330 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9331 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
9332 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
9333 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
9334 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
9336 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9337 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
9338 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9340 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9341 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9342 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9344 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9345 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
9346 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
9347 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
9348 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
9349 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
9350 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
9354 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
9355 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
9356 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9359 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
9360 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9361 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9362 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9363 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9364 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9366 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
9367 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
9368 bugfixes described below.
9370 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
9371 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9372 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9373 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9374 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9377 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9378 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
9379 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
9380 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
9381 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
9382 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
9383 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
9386 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9387 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
9388 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
9389 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
9390 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
9392 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
9393 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
9394 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
9395 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
9396 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
9397 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
9398 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
9400 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
9401 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
9402 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
9403 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
9404 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
9406 o Minor features (geoip):
9407 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9410 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
9411 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
9412 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
9413 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9415 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9416 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9417 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9419 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
9420 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
9421 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
9422 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
9423 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
9426 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
9427 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
9428 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
9429 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
9430 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9432 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
9433 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9434 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9435 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9436 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9437 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9439 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9440 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9441 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9442 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9445 o Minor features (geoip):
9446 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9449 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
9450 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
9451 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
9452 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
9453 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
9455 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9456 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9457 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9459 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
9460 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9461 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9462 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9463 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9464 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9466 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9467 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9468 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9469 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9472 o Minor features (geoip):
9473 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9476 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9477 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9478 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9481 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
9482 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9483 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9484 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9485 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9486 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9488 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9489 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9490 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9491 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9494 o Minor features (geoip):
9495 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9498 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9499 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9500 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9502 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
9503 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9504 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9505 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9506 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9507 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9509 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9510 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9511 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9512 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9515 o Minor features (geoip):
9516 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9519 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9520 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9521 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9523 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
9524 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9525 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9526 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9527 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9528 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9530 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9531 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9532 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9533 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9536 o Minor features (geoip):
9537 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9540 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9541 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9542 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9545 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
9546 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
9547 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
9548 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
9549 clients are not affected.
9551 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
9552 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
9553 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
9554 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
9555 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
9556 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9562 o Minor features (future-proofing):
9563 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
9564 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
9565 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
9566 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
9567 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
9568 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
9570 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9571 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
9572 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
9573 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
9574 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
9578 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
9579 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
9581 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
9582 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
9583 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
9584 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
9585 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
9586 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
9589 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
9590 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
9592 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
9593 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
9594 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
9595 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
9596 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
9598 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
9599 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9601 o Major features (directory authority, security):
9602 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
9603 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
9604 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
9606 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
9607 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
9608 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
9609 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
9610 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
9613 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
9614 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
9615 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
9616 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
9617 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
9618 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
9619 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
9620 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
9623 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
9624 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
9625 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
9626 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
9627 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
9628 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
9629 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
9630 15056; part of proposal 220.
9631 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
9632 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
9633 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
9634 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
9635 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
9636 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
9637 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
9638 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
9639 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
9642 o Major features (security):
9643 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
9644 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
9645 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
9646 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
9647 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
9648 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
9650 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
9651 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
9652 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
9653 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
9654 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
9655 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
9656 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
9657 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
9658 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
9659 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
9660 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9662 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
9663 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
9664 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
9665 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9667 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9668 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
9669 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
9670 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
9673 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
9674 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
9675 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9677 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
9678 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
9679 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
9680 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
9681 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
9682 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
9683 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9685 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
9686 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9687 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9688 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9689 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9690 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9691 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9692 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
9693 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
9694 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
9695 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
9696 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
9697 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
9698 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
9699 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
9701 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
9702 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
9703 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
9704 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
9705 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9707 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
9708 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
9709 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
9710 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
9711 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
9712 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
9713 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9715 o Minor feature (client):
9716 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
9717 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
9719 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
9720 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
9721 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
9722 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
9724 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
9725 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
9726 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
9728 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
9729 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
9730 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
9731 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
9732 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
9734 o Minor features (controller):
9735 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
9736 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
9737 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
9738 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
9741 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
9742 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
9743 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
9744 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
9745 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
9746 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
9747 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
9748 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
9749 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
9750 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
9752 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
9753 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
9754 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
9757 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9758 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
9759 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
9761 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
9762 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
9763 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9765 o Minor features (directory authority):
9766 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
9767 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
9768 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
9769 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
9770 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
9772 o Minor features (directory cache):
9773 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
9774 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
9777 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
9778 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
9779 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
9780 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
9782 o Minor features (entry guards):
9783 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
9784 break regression tests.
9785 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
9786 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
9788 o Minor features (fallback directories):
9789 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
9790 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
9791 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
9792 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
9793 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
9794 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
9795 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
9796 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
9797 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
9798 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
9799 Closes ticket 20539.
9800 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
9801 Closes ticket 20822.
9802 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
9804 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
9805 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
9806 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
9807 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
9808 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
9810 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
9811 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
9812 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
9813 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
9814 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
9817 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
9818 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
9819 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
9820 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
9822 o Minor features (geoip):
9823 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9826 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
9827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9830 o Minor features (infrastructure):
9831 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
9832 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
9834 o Minor features (linting):
9835 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
9836 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
9838 o Minor features (logging):
9839 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
9840 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
9842 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
9843 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
9844 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
9846 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
9847 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
9849 o Minor features (relay):
9850 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
9851 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
9852 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
9853 Written by Michael Sonntag.
9855 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
9856 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
9857 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
9860 o Minor features (testing):
9861 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
9862 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
9863 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
9865 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
9866 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
9867 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
9868 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
9869 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
9870 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
9871 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
9872 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
9873 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9875 o Minor bugfix (logging):
9876 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
9877 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
9878 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
9879 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
9882 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
9883 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
9884 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
9885 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
9887 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9888 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
9889 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
9892 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
9893 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
9894 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
9896 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9897 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
9898 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
9899 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9900 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
9901 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
9902 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
9904 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9905 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
9906 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
9908 o Minor bugfixes (config):
9909 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
9910 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
9911 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
9912 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9914 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9915 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
9916 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9917 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
9918 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
9919 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
9921 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
9922 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
9923 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
9924 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
9925 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
9926 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
9927 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
9930 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
9931 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
9932 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
9933 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
9934 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
9936 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
9937 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
9938 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
9939 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9941 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
9942 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
9943 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
9944 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
9945 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9947 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
9948 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
9949 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
9950 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
9951 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9953 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9954 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
9955 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
9956 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9957 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
9958 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
9959 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
9962 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
9963 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
9964 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
9965 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
9966 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9967 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
9968 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
9969 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
9970 on all recent tor versions.
9972 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9973 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
9974 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
9976 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
9977 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
9978 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9980 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9981 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
9982 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
9983 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
9984 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9985 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
9986 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9987 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
9988 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9990 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9991 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
9992 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
9993 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
9994 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9995 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
9996 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
9997 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9998 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
9999 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
10000 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
10003 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10004 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
10005 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
10006 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10007 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
10008 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
10009 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
10010 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10011 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
10012 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
10013 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
10016 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10017 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
10018 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10019 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
10020 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
10021 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
10022 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
10023 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
10025 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
10026 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
10027 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
10030 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10031 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
10032 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10034 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10035 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
10036 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
10037 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
10040 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
10041 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10042 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10043 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10045 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10046 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10048 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10049 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10050 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10052 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
10053 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
10054 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
10055 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
10057 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10058 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
10059 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
10060 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
10061 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10062 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
10063 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
10064 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10066 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
10067 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
10068 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
10069 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10070 Patch by "junglefowl".
10072 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10073 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
10074 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
10075 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
10076 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10078 o Minor bugfixes (util):
10079 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
10080 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
10081 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
10082 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
10084 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
10085 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
10086 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
10089 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
10090 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
10091 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
10092 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
10094 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10095 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
10096 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
10097 Closes ticket 19858.
10098 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
10099 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
10100 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
10101 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
10102 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
10103 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
10104 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
10105 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
10106 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
10107 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
10108 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10109 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
10110 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
10111 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
10112 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
10113 redundant with the similar structures used in the
10114 channel abstraction.
10115 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
10116 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
10117 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
10118 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10119 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
10120 replaced with code automatically generated by the
10123 o Documentation (formatting):
10124 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
10125 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
10127 o Documentation (man page):
10128 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
10129 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
10132 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
10133 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
10135 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
10136 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
10137 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
10139 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
10140 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
10141 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
10142 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10143 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
10144 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
10145 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
10146 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
10147 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
10148 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
10150 o Removed features:
10151 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
10152 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
10153 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
10155 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
10156 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
10157 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
10160 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
10161 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
10162 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
10164 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
10165 from "overcaffeinated".
10166 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
10167 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
10170 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
10171 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
10172 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
10173 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
10174 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
10177 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
10178 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
10179 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
10181 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
10182 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10183 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10184 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10185 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10186 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10187 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10189 o Minor features (geoip):
10190 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10194 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
10195 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
10196 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
10197 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
10200 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
10201 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
10202 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
10204 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
10205 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
10207 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
10208 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10209 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10211 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10212 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
10213 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
10216 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
10217 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10218 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10219 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10220 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10221 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10222 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10223 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10224 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10226 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10227 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
10228 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
10229 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
10230 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10231 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10232 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10233 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10234 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10235 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10236 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10237 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10238 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10240 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10241 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
10242 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
10243 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
10244 Reported by Guido Vranken.
10246 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10247 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
10248 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10250 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10251 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
10252 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
10253 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
10254 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
10255 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
10256 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10259 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
10260 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10261 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10262 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10263 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10264 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10265 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10267 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10268 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10269 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10270 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10273 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10274 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
10275 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
10276 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
10278 o Minor features (geoip):
10279 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10283 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
10284 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
10285 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
10286 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
10289 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
10290 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
10291 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
10293 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
10294 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
10296 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
10297 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10298 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10300 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10301 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
10302 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
10305 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
10306 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10307 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10308 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10309 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10310 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10311 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10312 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10313 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10315 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
10316 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10317 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10318 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10319 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10320 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10321 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10322 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10323 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10325 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10326 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
10327 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
10328 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
10329 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10331 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
10332 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
10333 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
10334 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
10335 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
10338 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10339 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
10340 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
10341 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
10342 Reported by Guido Vranken.
10344 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10345 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
10346 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10348 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10349 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
10350 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
10351 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
10352 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
10353 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
10356 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10357 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
10358 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
10359 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
10360 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
10361 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
10362 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10365 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
10366 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10367 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10368 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10369 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10370 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10371 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10373 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10374 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10375 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10376 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10379 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10380 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
10381 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
10382 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
10384 o Minor features (geoip):
10385 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10389 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10390 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10393 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
10394 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
10395 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
10396 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
10399 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
10400 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
10401 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
10403 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
10404 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
10406 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
10407 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10408 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10410 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10411 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
10412 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
10415 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
10416 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10417 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10418 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10419 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10420 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10421 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10422 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10423 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10425 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
10426 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10427 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10428 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10429 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10430 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10431 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10432 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10433 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10435 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10436 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
10437 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
10438 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
10439 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10441 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
10442 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
10443 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
10444 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
10445 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
10448 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10449 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
10450 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
10451 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
10452 Reported by Guido Vranken.
10454 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10455 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
10456 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10458 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10459 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
10460 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
10461 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
10462 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
10463 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
10466 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10467 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
10468 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
10469 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
10470 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
10471 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
10472 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10475 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
10476 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10477 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10478 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10479 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10480 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10481 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10483 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10484 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10485 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10486 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10489 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10490 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
10491 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
10492 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
10494 o Minor features (geoip):
10495 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10499 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10500 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10502 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
10503 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
10504 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
10505 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
10506 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
10507 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
10509 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10510 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
10511 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
10515 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
10516 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
10517 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
10518 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
10521 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
10522 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
10523 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
10525 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
10526 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
10528 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
10529 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10530 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10532 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10533 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
10534 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
10537 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
10538 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10539 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10540 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10541 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10542 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10543 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10544 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10545 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10547 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
10548 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10549 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10550 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10551 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10552 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10553 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10554 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10555 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10557 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
10558 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
10559 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
10560 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
10561 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
10564 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10565 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
10566 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
10567 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
10568 Reported by Guido Vranken.
10570 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10571 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
10572 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10574 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10575 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
10576 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
10577 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
10578 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
10579 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
10582 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
10583 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
10584 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
10585 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
10586 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
10587 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
10588 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10591 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
10592 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10593 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10594 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10595 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10596 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10597 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10599 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10600 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10601 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10602 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10605 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10606 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
10607 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
10608 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
10610 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10611 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
10612 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
10613 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
10615 o Minor features (geoip):
10616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10619 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10620 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10621 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10623 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10624 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
10625 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
10629 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
10630 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
10631 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
10632 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
10634 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
10635 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
10636 least January of 2020.
10638 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10639 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
10640 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
10641 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
10644 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10645 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
10646 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
10647 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
10648 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
10649 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
10650 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10652 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
10653 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10654 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10655 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10656 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10657 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10658 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10660 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
10661 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
10662 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
10664 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
10665 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
10666 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10668 o Minor features (geoip):
10669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10672 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10673 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
10674 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
10676 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
10677 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
10679 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
10680 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
10681 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
10683 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10684 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
10685 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
10686 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10687 Patch by "junglefowl".
10690 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
10691 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
10692 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
10693 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
10694 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
10695 version should upgrade.
10697 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
10698 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
10700 o Major bugfixes (security):
10701 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
10702 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
10703 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
10704 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
10705 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
10706 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10708 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
10709 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
10710 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
10711 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
10712 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
10713 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
10714 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
10715 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
10716 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
10717 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
10718 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10720 o Minor features (geoip):
10721 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10724 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10725 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10726 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10727 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10729 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10730 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10733 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
10734 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
10735 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
10736 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
10737 become available for their systems.
10739 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
10742 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
10743 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
10745 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
10746 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10747 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10748 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10749 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10750 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10751 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10752 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10753 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10755 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
10756 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
10757 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
10758 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
10759 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
10761 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
10762 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10766 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
10767 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
10769 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
10770 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
10771 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
10772 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
10773 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
10774 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
10775 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
10776 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
10778 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
10780 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
10781 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
10782 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
10783 become available for their systems.
10785 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
10786 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10788 o New system requirements:
10789 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
10790 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
10791 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
10792 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
10793 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
10794 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
10795 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
10796 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
10797 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
10798 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
10799 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
10801 o Deprecated features:
10802 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
10803 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
10804 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
10805 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
10806 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
10807 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
10808 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
10809 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
10810 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
10811 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
10812 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
10813 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
10814 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
10815 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
10816 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
10817 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
10818 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
10819 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
10820 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
10821 and TransListenAddress.
10823 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
10824 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10825 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10826 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10827 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10828 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10829 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10830 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10831 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10833 o Major features (build, hardening):
10834 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
10835 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
10836 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
10837 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
10838 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
10839 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
10840 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
10841 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
10842 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
10844 o Major features (circuit building, security):
10845 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
10846 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
10847 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
10849 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
10850 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
10852 o Major features (compilation):
10853 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
10854 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
10855 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
10856 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
10858 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
10859 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
10860 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
10862 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
10863 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
10864 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
10865 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
10866 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
10867 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
10868 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
10869 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
10871 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
10872 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
10873 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
10874 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
10875 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
10876 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
10877 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
10879 o Major features (resource management):
10880 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
10881 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
10882 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
10883 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
10884 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
10885 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
10887 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
10888 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
10889 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
10890 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
10891 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
10892 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
10893 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
10894 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
10895 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
10896 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
10897 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
10899 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
10900 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
10901 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
10902 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
10903 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
10904 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
10905 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
10906 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
10907 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
10908 part of proposal 264.
10910 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
10911 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
10912 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
10913 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
10915 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
10916 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
10917 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
10918 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10919 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
10920 download, stop waiting for certificates.
10921 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
10922 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
10923 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
10925 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
10926 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
10927 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
10929 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
10930 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
10931 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
10932 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
10933 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
10934 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
10935 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
10937 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10938 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
10939 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
10940 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
10941 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
10942 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
10943 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
10944 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
10945 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
10946 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
10948 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
10949 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
10950 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
10951 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
10952 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
10953 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10955 o Minor features (port flags):
10956 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
10957 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
10958 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
10959 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
10960 18693; patch by "teor".
10962 o Minor features (build, hardening):
10963 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
10964 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
10965 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
10966 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
10967 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
10968 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
10969 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
10970 Closes ticket 18895.
10972 o Minor features (client, directory):
10973 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
10974 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
10975 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
10978 o Minor features (code safety):
10979 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
10980 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
10981 patch from "U+039b".
10983 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
10984 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
10987 o Minor features (config):
10988 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
10989 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
10991 o Minor features (controller):
10992 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
10993 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
10994 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
10995 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
10996 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
10997 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
10998 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
10999 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
11001 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
11002 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
11003 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
11006 o Minor features (directory authority):
11007 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
11008 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
11009 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
11010 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
11011 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
11012 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
11013 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
11014 Implements ticket 18624.
11015 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
11016 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
11017 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
11020 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
11021 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
11022 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
11023 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
11024 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
11026 o Minor features (hidden service):
11027 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
11028 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
11029 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
11032 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
11033 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
11034 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
11035 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
11036 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
11037 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
11038 Closes ticket 18365.
11039 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
11040 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
11041 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
11042 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
11044 o Minor features (logging):
11045 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
11046 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
11047 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
11048 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
11049 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11050 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
11051 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
11052 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
11053 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
11054 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
11056 o Minor features (performance):
11057 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
11058 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
11059 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
11060 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
11061 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
11062 Closes ticket 18815.
11064 o Minor features (relay, usability):
11065 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
11066 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
11067 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
11068 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
11071 o Minor features (security, TLS):
11072 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
11073 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
11074 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
11075 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
11077 o Minor features (testing):
11078 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
11079 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
11080 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
11081 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
11082 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
11083 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
11084 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
11085 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
11086 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
11087 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
11089 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
11090 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
11091 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
11092 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
11093 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
11094 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
11095 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
11097 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
11098 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
11099 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
11100 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
11101 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
11102 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
11103 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
11104 assertion as a test failure.
11105 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
11107 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
11108 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
11109 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
11110 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
11111 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
11112 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
11113 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
11114 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
11115 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
11117 o Minor features (Tor2web):
11118 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
11119 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
11120 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
11122 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11123 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
11124 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
11125 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
11126 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
11128 o Minor features (user interface):
11129 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
11130 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
11131 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
11132 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
11135 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
11136 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
11137 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
11138 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
11141 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
11142 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
11143 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
11144 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
11145 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
11146 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
11148 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11149 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
11150 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
11151 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11153 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
11154 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
11155 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
11156 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
11157 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
11159 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
11160 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
11161 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
11162 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
11163 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
11165 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
11166 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
11167 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
11168 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
11169 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11171 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
11172 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
11173 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11175 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
11176 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
11177 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11179 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
11180 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
11181 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
11184 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11185 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
11186 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
11188 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11189 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
11190 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
11192 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
11193 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
11194 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11195 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
11196 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
11197 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
11198 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
11199 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
11201 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11202 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
11203 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
11204 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
11206 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11207 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
11208 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
11209 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11210 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
11211 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
11212 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
11213 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11214 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
11215 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
11217 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
11218 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
11219 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
11220 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11222 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
11223 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
11224 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
11225 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
11228 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
11229 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
11230 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
11231 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
11233 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
11234 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
11237 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11238 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
11239 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
11240 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
11242 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
11243 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
11245 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
11246 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
11247 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
11248 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
11249 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
11251 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
11252 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
11253 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11255 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
11256 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
11257 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
11259 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11260 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
11261 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
11262 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
11263 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
11264 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11266 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11267 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
11268 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
11270 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
11271 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11272 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
11273 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
11274 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
11275 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
11276 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
11278 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
11279 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
11280 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11281 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
11282 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11283 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
11284 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11285 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
11286 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
11287 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
11288 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
11289 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
11290 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11291 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
11292 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
11295 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
11296 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
11297 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
11298 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
11299 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
11300 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
11302 o Minor bugfixes (options):
11303 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
11304 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
11306 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
11307 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
11308 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11311 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11312 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
11313 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11314 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
11315 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
11316 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11318 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11319 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
11320 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
11321 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
11322 patch from "cypherpunks".
11323 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
11324 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11325 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
11326 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11327 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
11328 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
11329 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
11330 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
11331 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11332 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
11333 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
11335 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
11336 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
11338 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
11339 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
11340 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11341 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
11342 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
11345 o Minor bugfixes (time):
11346 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
11347 bugfix on all released tor versions.
11348 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
11349 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
11350 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
11351 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11353 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
11354 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
11355 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
11356 19678. Patch by teor.
11358 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
11359 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
11360 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
11361 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
11362 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
11364 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
11365 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11367 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11368 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
11370 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
11371 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11372 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
11373 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
11376 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
11377 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
11378 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
11379 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
11380 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
11381 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
11382 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
11383 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
11384 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
11385 tickets 19287 and 19290.
11386 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
11387 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11388 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
11389 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
11390 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11391 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
11392 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
11393 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
11395 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
11396 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
11397 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
11398 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
11401 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
11402 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
11404 o Removed features:
11405 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
11406 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
11407 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
11408 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
11409 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
11410 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
11411 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
11414 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
11415 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
11416 command-line options to enable them.
11417 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
11418 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
11421 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
11422 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
11423 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
11424 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
11427 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11428 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
11429 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
11430 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
11431 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
11432 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
11435 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11436 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
11437 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
11440 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
11441 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
11442 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
11443 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
11445 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11446 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
11447 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
11448 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
11451 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11452 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
11453 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
11454 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
11457 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
11458 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
11459 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
11462 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11463 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
11464 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11466 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11467 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
11468 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
11470 o Minor features (geoip):
11471 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11475 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
11476 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
11477 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
11478 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
11479 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
11482 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11483 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11484 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11485 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11486 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11487 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11488 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11489 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11490 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11492 o Minor features (geoip):
11493 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11497 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
11498 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
11499 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
11500 who select public relays as their bridges.
11502 o Major bugfixes (crash):
11503 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
11504 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
11505 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
11506 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
11507 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11509 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
11510 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
11511 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
11512 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
11513 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
11516 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11517 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
11518 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11520 o Minor features (geoip):
11521 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11525 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
11526 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
11527 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
11528 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
11529 encouraged to upgrade.
11531 o Directory authority changes:
11532 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11533 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11535 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
11536 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
11537 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
11538 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
11539 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
11540 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11542 o Minor features (geoip):
11543 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11547 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
11548 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
11551 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11552 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
11553 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
11554 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
11557 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
11559 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
11561 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
11562 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
11563 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
11564 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
11565 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
11566 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11568 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
11570 o New system requirements:
11571 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
11572 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
11573 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
11575 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
11576 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
11577 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
11578 longer runs with, these versions.
11579 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
11580 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
11581 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
11582 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
11583 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
11585 o Directory authority changes:
11586 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11587 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11589 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11591 o Major features (directory system):
11592 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
11593 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
11594 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
11595 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
11596 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
11597 gsathya, and karsten.
11598 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
11599 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
11600 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
11601 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
11602 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
11604 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
11605 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
11606 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
11607 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
11608 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
11609 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
11610 mikeperry and teor.
11612 o Major features (security, Linux):
11613 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
11614 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
11615 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
11616 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
11617 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
11619 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
11620 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
11621 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
11622 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
11623 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
11624 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
11625 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
11627 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
11628 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
11631 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
11632 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11633 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11635 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
11636 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
11637 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
11638 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
11639 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
11641 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
11642 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
11643 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
11644 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11645 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
11646 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
11647 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
11648 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
11649 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
11650 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11652 o Major bugfixes (key management):
11653 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11654 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11655 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11656 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11657 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11658 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11661 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
11662 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11663 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11664 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11665 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11667 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
11668 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
11669 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
11670 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
11671 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
11672 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
11673 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
11674 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
11675 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11677 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
11678 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11679 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11680 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11681 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11683 o Major bugfixes (testing):
11684 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
11685 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11687 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
11688 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
11689 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
11690 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11692 o Minor features (accounting):
11693 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
11694 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
11695 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
11696 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
11698 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
11699 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11700 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11701 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11702 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
11703 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
11704 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
11707 o Minor features (build):
11708 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
11709 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
11710 Steven Chamberlain.
11711 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
11712 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
11713 patch from "cypherpunks".
11714 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
11715 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
11716 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
11717 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
11718 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
11719 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
11720 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11721 Patch from intrigeri.
11723 o Minor features (clients):
11724 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
11725 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
11726 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
11728 o Minor features (controller):
11729 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
11730 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
11731 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
11733 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
11734 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
11735 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
11736 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
11737 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
11739 o Minor features (crypto):
11740 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
11741 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
11743 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
11744 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
11745 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11746 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
11747 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
11749 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
11750 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
11751 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
11752 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
11754 o Minor features (directory downloads):
11755 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
11756 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
11757 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
11758 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
11759 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
11760 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
11761 17864; patch by teor.
11763 o Minor features (geoip):
11764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11767 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
11768 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
11769 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
11770 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
11771 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
11773 o Minor features (IPv6):
11774 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
11775 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
11776 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
11777 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
11778 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
11779 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
11780 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
11781 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
11782 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
11783 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
11784 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
11785 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
11787 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
11788 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
11789 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
11790 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
11791 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
11792 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
11793 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
11794 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
11795 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
11796 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
11798 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11799 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
11800 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
11801 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
11802 while fixing 18548.
11804 o Minor features (logging):
11805 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
11806 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
11807 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
11808 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
11811 o Minor features (portability):
11812 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
11813 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
11815 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
11816 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
11817 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
11818 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
11819 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
11821 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
11822 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
11823 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
11824 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
11825 Resolves ticket 17951.
11827 o Minor features (replay cache):
11828 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
11829 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
11831 o Minor features (robustness):
11832 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
11833 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
11834 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
11836 o Minor features (security, clock):
11837 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
11838 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
11839 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
11840 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
11842 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
11843 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
11844 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
11845 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
11846 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
11847 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
11849 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
11850 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11851 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11852 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11854 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
11855 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
11856 Implements ticket 17026.
11857 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
11858 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
11859 Implements feature 17986.
11860 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
11861 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
11862 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
11864 o Minor features (security, RNG):
11865 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
11866 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
11867 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
11868 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
11869 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
11870 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
11871 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
11872 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
11873 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
11874 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
11877 o Minor features (security, win32):
11878 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
11879 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
11882 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11883 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
11884 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
11885 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
11886 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
11887 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
11888 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
11891 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
11892 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
11893 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
11894 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
11895 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11896 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
11897 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
11898 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
11899 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
11900 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
11901 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11902 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
11903 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
11904 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11906 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
11907 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
11908 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
11909 from "unixninja92".
11911 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
11912 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
11913 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
11916 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
11917 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
11918 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
11920 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11921 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
11922 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
11923 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11924 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
11925 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
11927 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
11928 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
11930 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
11931 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
11932 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
11933 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
11934 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
11936 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
11937 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11938 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
11939 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
11940 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11941 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
11943 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
11944 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
11945 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
11946 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
11947 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11948 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
11949 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
11950 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11951 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
11952 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
11953 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
11955 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
11956 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
11959 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
11960 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
11961 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
11962 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
11963 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11965 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11966 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
11967 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
11968 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
11969 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
11970 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11971 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
11972 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
11974 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
11976 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
11977 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
11978 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
11980 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
11981 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
11982 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11984 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11985 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
11986 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11988 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
11989 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
11990 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
11991 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11993 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
11994 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
11995 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
11996 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
11997 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11999 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
12000 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
12001 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
12003 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
12004 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
12005 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
12006 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
12007 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
12008 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12009 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
12010 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
12011 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
12013 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
12014 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
12015 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
12016 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
12019 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
12020 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
12021 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
12022 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
12023 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
12025 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12026 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
12027 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
12028 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
12029 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
12030 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
12031 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
12032 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
12034 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
12035 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
12036 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
12037 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
12038 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
12039 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
12040 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
12041 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
12042 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
12045 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
12046 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
12047 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
12048 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12050 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
12051 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
12052 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
12054 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12055 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
12056 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12058 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12059 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
12060 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
12061 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
12062 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12063 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
12064 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
12065 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12066 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
12067 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
12068 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12069 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
12070 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
12071 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12072 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
12073 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12074 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
12075 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
12076 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
12078 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12079 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
12080 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
12081 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
12082 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
12084 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
12085 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12086 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
12087 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
12088 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
12089 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
12090 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12091 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
12092 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
12093 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12094 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
12095 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
12098 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
12099 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
12100 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
12101 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
12103 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
12104 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12105 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
12108 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
12109 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
12110 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
12111 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12113 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
12114 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
12115 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
12116 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
12117 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
12118 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
12121 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
12122 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
12123 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
12124 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
12126 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12127 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
12128 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
12129 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
12130 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
12131 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
12132 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
12133 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
12134 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12136 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
12137 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
12138 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
12139 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
12140 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
12143 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
12144 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
12145 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
12147 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12148 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
12149 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
12150 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12151 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
12152 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
12153 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
12154 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
12156 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
12157 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
12159 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
12160 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
12161 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
12164 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12165 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
12166 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
12167 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
12169 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
12170 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
12171 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12172 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
12173 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
12174 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
12175 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
12176 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
12177 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
12178 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
12179 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12180 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
12181 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
12182 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
12183 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
12184 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12186 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
12187 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
12188 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
12189 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12190 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
12191 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
12192 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
12194 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
12195 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
12196 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
12197 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
12199 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12200 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
12201 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
12203 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
12204 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
12205 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
12206 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
12208 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
12209 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
12210 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
12211 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
12212 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
12213 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
12214 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
12215 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
12216 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
12217 17744. Patch from zerosion.
12218 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
12219 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
12220 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
12221 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
12222 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
12223 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
12224 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
12225 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
12226 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
12227 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
12228 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
12229 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
12233 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
12234 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
12235 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
12236 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
12237 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
12238 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
12239 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
12240 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
12241 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
12242 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
12243 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
12244 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
12246 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
12247 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
12249 o Removed features:
12250 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
12251 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
12252 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
12253 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
12254 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
12255 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
12256 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
12257 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
12260 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
12261 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
12262 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
12263 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
12264 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
12265 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
12266 portion of ticket 16831.
12267 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
12269 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
12270 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
12271 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
12272 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
12273 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
12275 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
12276 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
12277 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
12278 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
12281 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
12282 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
12283 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
12285 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
12286 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12287 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12288 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12289 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12290 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12293 o Minor features (geoip):
12294 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12297 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12298 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
12299 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
12300 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
12301 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12302 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12304 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12305 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
12306 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
12307 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
12308 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
12309 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
12310 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
12311 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12312 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
12313 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12316 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
12317 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
12318 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
12319 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
12320 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
12321 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
12322 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
12323 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
12324 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
12325 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
12326 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
12327 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
12328 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
12329 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
12330 that would make him proud.
12332 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
12334 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
12335 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
12336 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
12337 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
12338 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
12339 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
12340 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
12342 o New system requirements:
12343 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
12344 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
12346 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
12347 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
12348 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
12349 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
12350 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
12351 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
12352 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
12353 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
12354 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
12355 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
12356 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
12357 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
12358 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
12360 o Major features (controller):
12361 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
12362 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
12364 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
12365 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
12366 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
12367 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
12368 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
12369 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
12370 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12372 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
12373 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
12374 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
12375 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
12376 key). Closes ticket 13642.
12377 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
12378 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
12379 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
12380 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
12381 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
12382 Implements part of ticket 12498.
12383 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
12384 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
12385 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
12386 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
12387 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
12388 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
12389 part of ticket 12498.
12390 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
12391 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
12393 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
12394 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
12395 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
12396 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
12397 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
12398 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
12399 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
12400 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
12401 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
12404 o Major features (ECC performance):
12405 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
12406 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
12408 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
12409 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
12410 available. Implements ticket 16535.
12411 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
12412 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
12413 Implements ticket 16467.
12414 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
12415 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
12416 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
12417 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
12419 o Major features (Hidden services):
12420 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
12421 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
12422 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
12423 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
12424 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
12425 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
12426 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
12427 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
12428 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
12429 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
12430 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
12431 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
12433 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
12434 introduction points, which used to change the number of
12435 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
12436 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
12438 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
12439 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
12440 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
12441 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
12442 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
12443 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
12445 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
12446 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
12447 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
12448 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
12449 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
12450 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
12452 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
12453 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
12454 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
12455 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
12456 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
12457 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
12458 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
12459 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
12462 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12463 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
12464 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
12465 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
12467 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
12468 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
12469 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
12470 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
12471 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
12472 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
12475 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
12476 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
12477 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12479 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
12480 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
12481 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
12482 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
12483 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
12484 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
12486 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
12487 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12488 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12489 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12490 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12493 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
12494 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
12495 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
12496 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
12497 by "cypherpunks_backup".
12498 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
12499 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
12500 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
12503 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
12504 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
12505 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
12506 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
12508 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
12509 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
12510 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
12511 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12512 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
12513 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
12514 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
12517 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
12518 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
12519 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
12520 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
12521 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
12522 own. Implements feature 15482.
12523 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
12524 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
12526 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
12527 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
12528 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
12529 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
12530 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
12532 o Minor features (command-line interface):
12533 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
12534 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12535 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
12536 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
12538 o Minor features (compilation):
12539 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
12540 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
12541 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
12542 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
12543 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
12545 o Minor features (control protocol):
12546 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
12547 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
12549 o Minor features (controller):
12550 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
12551 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
12552 present. Implements ticket 14840.
12553 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
12554 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
12555 Closes ticket 14845.
12556 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
12557 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
12558 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
12560 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12561 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
12562 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
12563 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
12564 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
12565 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
12567 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
12568 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
12569 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
12570 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
12571 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
12572 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
12573 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
12575 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
12576 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12577 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12578 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12580 o Minor features (geoip):
12581 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12584 o Minor features (hidden services):
12585 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
12586 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
12587 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
12588 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
12590 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
12591 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
12592 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
12594 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
12595 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
12596 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
12597 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
12598 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
12599 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
12600 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
12601 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
12603 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
12604 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
12605 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
12606 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
12607 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
12608 Closes ticket 15745.
12610 o Minor features (logging):
12611 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
12612 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
12615 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
12616 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
12617 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
12618 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
12620 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
12621 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
12622 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
12623 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
12624 Resolves ticket 15435.
12626 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
12627 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
12628 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
12629 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12630 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
12631 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
12632 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
12633 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12634 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
12635 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
12636 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
12637 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
12638 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
12639 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
12640 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
12641 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
12642 Related to ticket 16069.
12644 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
12645 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
12646 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
12648 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
12649 stderr, not stdout.
12650 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
12651 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
12652 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
12655 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12656 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
12657 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
12658 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
12659 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
12661 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
12662 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
12663 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
12664 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
12666 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
12667 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
12668 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
12669 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
12670 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
12671 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
12672 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
12673 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12675 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12676 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
12677 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
12678 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12680 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12681 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
12682 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
12684 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
12685 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
12686 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
12688 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
12689 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
12690 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
12691 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12693 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
12694 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12695 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12696 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12697 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12698 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12700 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12701 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12702 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12704 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
12705 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12707 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12708 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
12709 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12710 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
12711 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12712 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
12713 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
12714 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
12716 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
12717 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
12718 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
12719 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
12721 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
12722 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
12723 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
12725 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
12726 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
12727 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
12730 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12731 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
12732 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
12733 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
12734 recent enough Clang.
12736 o Minor bugfixes (network):
12737 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
12738 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
12739 unsuitable for public communications.
12741 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
12742 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
12743 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
12744 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
12746 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12747 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
12748 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12749 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
12750 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
12752 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
12753 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
12755 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12756 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
12757 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
12758 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
12759 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
12761 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
12762 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
12763 from "cypherpunks".
12764 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
12765 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
12768 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
12769 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
12770 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
12771 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
12772 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
12774 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12775 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
12776 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
12777 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
12778 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
12779 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
12781 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
12782 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
12783 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
12784 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12786 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
12787 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
12788 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
12789 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
12790 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
12791 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
12792 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
12793 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
12795 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
12796 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
12797 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
12799 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12800 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
12801 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
12802 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
12803 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
12804 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
12805 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
12806 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
12807 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
12808 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
12809 function. Closes ticket 16763.
12810 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
12811 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
12813 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
12814 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
12815 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
12816 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
12817 haven't supported that in ages.
12818 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
12819 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
12820 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
12821 suite of other microdesc functions.
12822 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
12823 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
12824 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
12825 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
12826 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
12827 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
12828 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
12829 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
12830 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
12831 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
12832 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
12833 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
12834 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
12835 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
12836 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
12837 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
12839 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
12840 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
12844 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
12845 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
12846 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
12848 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
12849 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12850 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
12851 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
12852 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
12853 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
12854 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
12855 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
12856 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
12857 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
12859 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
12861 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
12862 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
12863 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
12864 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
12865 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
12866 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
12867 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
12868 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
12869 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
12870 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
12871 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
12872 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
12873 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
12875 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
12876 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
12879 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
12880 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
12881 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
12882 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
12883 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
12884 Closes ticket 14922.
12885 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
12886 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
12887 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
12888 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
12889 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
12890 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
12891 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
12892 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
12893 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
12894 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
12895 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
12896 Closes ticket 13338.
12898 o Removed features:
12899 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
12900 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
12901 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
12902 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
12903 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
12904 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
12905 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
12906 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
12907 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
12908 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
12909 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
12910 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
12911 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
12912 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
12913 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
12916 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
12917 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
12918 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
12919 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
12920 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
12921 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
12922 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
12923 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
12924 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
12925 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
12926 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
12928 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
12929 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
12930 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
12931 Closes ticket 15817.
12932 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
12933 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
12934 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
12935 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
12936 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
12937 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
12938 network before we begin.
12939 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
12940 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
12941 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
12942 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
12943 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
12944 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
12946 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
12947 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
12949 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
12950 default as a part of "make check".
12951 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
12952 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
12953 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
12954 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
12955 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
12956 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
12957 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
12958 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
12959 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
12960 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
12961 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
12962 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
12963 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
12964 files. Closes ticket 15180.
12965 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
12966 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
12967 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
12968 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
12969 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
12970 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
12971 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
12972 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
12973 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
12974 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
12975 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
12976 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
12977 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
12978 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
12979 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
12980 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
12981 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
12983 - Set the severity correctly when testing
12984 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
12985 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
12986 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
12987 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
12989 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
12990 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
12991 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
12992 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
12993 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
12994 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
12996 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
12997 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
12998 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
12999 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13000 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13001 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13002 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13003 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13006 o Major bugfixes (stability):
13007 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13008 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13009 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13010 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13011 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13012 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13013 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13016 o Minor features (geoip):
13017 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13018 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13020 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
13021 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13022 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13023 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13024 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13025 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13027 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13028 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13029 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13030 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13033 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
13034 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
13035 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
13036 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
13037 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
13039 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
13040 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13041 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
13042 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
13043 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13046 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
13047 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13048 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13049 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13050 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
13051 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
13052 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13055 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13056 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13057 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13059 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13060 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
13061 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
13062 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
13063 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13064 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13067 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13068 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13069 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13072 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
13073 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
13074 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
13075 authorities should upgrade.
13077 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13078 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13079 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13080 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13083 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13084 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13085 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13088 o Minor features (geoip):
13089 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13090 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13094 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
13095 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
13096 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
13097 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
13098 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13100 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
13101 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13103 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13104 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13105 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13106 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13107 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13108 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13109 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13111 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13112 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13113 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13114 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13115 Resolves ticket 15515.
13116 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
13117 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
13118 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
13122 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
13123 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13124 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13125 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13126 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13128 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13129 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13131 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13132 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13133 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13134 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13135 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13136 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13137 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13139 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13140 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13141 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13142 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13143 Resolves ticket 15515.
13146 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
13147 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13148 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13149 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13150 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13152 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13153 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13155 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13156 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13157 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13158 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13159 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13160 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13161 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13163 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13164 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13165 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13166 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13167 Resolves ticket 15515.
13170 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
13171 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
13173 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
13174 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
13175 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
13176 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
13177 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
13178 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
13179 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
13180 bugs should be addressed.
13182 o New compiler and system requirements:
13183 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
13184 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
13185 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
13186 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
13188 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
13189 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
13190 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
13191 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
13192 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
13193 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
13194 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
13195 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
13196 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
13198 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
13199 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
13200 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
13201 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
13202 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
13203 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
13204 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
13206 o Directory authority changes:
13207 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
13208 closes ticket 14487.
13209 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13210 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
13211 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
13213 o Major features (bridges):
13214 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
13215 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
13216 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
13219 o Major features (changed defaults):
13220 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
13221 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
13222 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
13223 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
13224 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
13225 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
13227 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
13228 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
13229 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
13230 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
13233 o Major features (directory system):
13234 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
13235 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
13236 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
13237 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
13238 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
13239 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
13240 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
13241 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
13242 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
13243 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
13244 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
13245 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
13246 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
13247 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
13248 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
13249 227. Closes ticket 10395.
13251 o Major features (guards):
13252 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
13253 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
13254 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
13255 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
13256 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
13258 o Major features (hidden services):
13259 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
13260 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
13261 Closes ticket 13667.
13262 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
13263 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
13264 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
13265 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
13266 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
13267 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
13268 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
13269 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
13270 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
13271 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
13272 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
13274 o Major features (performance):
13275 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
13276 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
13277 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
13278 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
13279 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
13280 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
13281 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
13282 Implements ticket 9682.
13284 o Major features (relay):
13285 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
13286 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
13287 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
13288 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
13289 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
13290 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
13291 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
13292 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
13294 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
13295 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
13296 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
13297 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
13298 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
13299 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
13300 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
13303 o Major features (sample torrc):
13304 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
13305 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
13306 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
13307 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
13308 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
13309 generally useful "sample torrc".
13311 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
13312 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
13313 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
13314 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
13315 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
13316 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
13318 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
13319 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
13320 Implements ticket 11485.
13322 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
13323 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
13324 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
13325 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
13326 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
13327 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
13330 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
13331 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
13332 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
13335 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
13336 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
13337 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13339 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
13340 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
13341 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
13342 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
13343 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13345 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
13346 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
13347 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
13348 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13350 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
13351 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
13352 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
13355 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13356 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
13357 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
13358 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
13359 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
13360 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
13362 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13363 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
13364 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
13365 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
13367 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
13368 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
13369 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
13370 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
13371 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
13372 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
13373 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
13375 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13376 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
13377 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
13378 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
13379 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
13380 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13382 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
13383 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
13384 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
13385 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
13386 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13387 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
13388 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
13389 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13391 o Minor features (build):
13392 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
13393 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
13394 Resolves ticket 13037.
13396 o Minor features (client):
13397 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
13398 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
13399 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
13400 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
13402 o Minor features (client):
13403 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
13404 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
13405 Resolves ticket 13315.
13407 o Minor features (controller):
13408 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
13409 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
13411 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
13412 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
13414 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
13415 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
13416 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
13417 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
13418 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
13419 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
13420 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
13421 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
13422 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
13424 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
13425 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
13426 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
13427 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
13428 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
13429 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
13430 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
13431 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
13432 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
13433 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
13435 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13436 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
13437 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
13438 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
13439 argument more than once.
13440 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
13441 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
13442 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
13443 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
13444 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
13445 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
13447 o Minor features (geoip):
13448 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13449 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13452 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13453 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
13454 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
13455 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
13457 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13458 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
13459 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
13460 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
13461 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
13463 o Minor features (hidden service):
13464 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
13465 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
13466 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
13467 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
13468 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
13469 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
13470 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
13471 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
13472 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
13473 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
13474 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
13475 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
13476 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
13477 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
13479 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
13480 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
13481 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
13483 o Minor features (interface):
13484 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
13485 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
13486 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
13488 o Minor features (logging):
13489 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
13490 Resolves ticket 6852.
13491 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
13492 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
13493 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
13495 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
13496 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
13497 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
13498 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
13499 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
13500 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
13501 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
13502 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
13503 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
13504 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
13505 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
13506 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
13509 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
13510 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
13511 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
13512 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
13514 o Minor features (relay):
13515 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
13516 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
13517 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
13519 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
13520 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
13521 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
13522 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
13523 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
13524 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
13525 document. Implements feature 10427.
13527 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
13528 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
13529 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
13530 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
13532 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
13533 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
13534 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
13535 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
13536 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
13537 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
13539 o Minor features (stability):
13540 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
13541 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
13544 o Minor features (systemd):
13545 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
13546 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
13547 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
13548 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
13549 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
13550 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
13552 o Minor features (testing networks):
13553 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
13554 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
13555 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
13556 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
13557 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
13559 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
13560 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
13561 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
13562 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
13563 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
13564 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
13566 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
13567 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
13568 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
13569 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
13570 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
13572 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
13573 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
13574 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
13575 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
13576 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
13578 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
13579 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
13580 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
13581 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
13582 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
13585 o Minor features (validation):
13586 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
13587 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
13588 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
13589 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
13590 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
13591 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
13592 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
13593 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
13594 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
13595 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
13596 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
13599 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
13600 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
13601 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
13602 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13604 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
13605 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
13606 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
13607 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
13609 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
13610 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
13611 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
13613 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
13614 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
13615 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
13617 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
13618 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13619 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
13620 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
13621 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13622 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
13623 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
13625 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
13626 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
13627 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
13628 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13629 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
13630 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
13631 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
13632 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
13633 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
13635 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13636 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
13637 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
13638 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
13639 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
13640 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13641 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
13642 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
13643 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
13645 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
13646 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
13647 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
13648 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13649 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
13650 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13651 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
13652 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
13654 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
13655 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
13656 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
13659 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
13660 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
13661 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
13662 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
13663 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13665 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
13666 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
13667 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
13668 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
13669 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
13670 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
13671 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
13672 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13674 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
13675 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
13676 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
13677 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
13678 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13680 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
13681 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
13682 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
13683 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
13684 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
13686 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
13687 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
13688 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13690 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
13691 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
13692 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
13693 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
13694 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
13696 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
13697 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
13698 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
13700 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13701 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
13703 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
13704 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
13705 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
13706 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
13708 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
13709 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
13711 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
13712 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
13713 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
13714 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
13715 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
13716 Addresses ticket 14188.
13717 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
13718 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
13719 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
13720 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
13721 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
13722 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
13723 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
13724 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13725 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
13726 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
13727 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
13730 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13731 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
13732 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
13733 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13734 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
13735 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13737 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13738 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
13739 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
13740 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
13741 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
13743 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13744 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
13745 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
13746 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
13747 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
13748 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
13749 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
13750 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13751 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
13752 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13753 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
13754 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
13755 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13756 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
13757 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
13758 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13760 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13761 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
13762 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
13763 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13764 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
13765 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
13766 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
13767 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
13770 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
13771 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
13772 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
13773 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
13774 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
13775 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
13776 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
13777 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
13778 state, and key files.
13779 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
13780 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
13783 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13784 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
13785 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
13786 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
13787 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13788 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
13789 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
13790 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13791 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
13792 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
13793 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
13794 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
13795 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
13796 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
13797 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
13798 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
13799 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
13800 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
13803 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13804 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
13805 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
13806 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
13807 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
13808 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
13809 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
13810 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
13811 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
13812 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13814 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13815 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
13816 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13817 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
13818 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
13819 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
13821 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
13822 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13824 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
13825 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
13826 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
13827 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
13828 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13830 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
13831 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
13832 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
13833 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
13834 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
13835 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13837 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13838 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
13839 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
13841 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
13842 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
13843 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13845 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
13846 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
13847 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
13848 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
13849 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
13851 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
13852 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
13853 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
13856 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13857 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
13858 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13859 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
13860 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
13863 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
13864 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
13865 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
13866 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
13869 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
13870 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
13871 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
13874 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13875 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
13876 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13878 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
13879 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
13880 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
13881 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
13882 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
13885 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
13886 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
13887 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13888 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
13889 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
13890 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13892 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
13893 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
13894 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
13895 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
13896 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
13897 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
13899 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
13900 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
13901 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
13902 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
13903 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13904 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
13905 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
13906 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
13907 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
13908 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
13909 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
13910 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
13911 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
13912 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
13913 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
13914 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
13915 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
13916 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
13917 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
13918 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13919 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
13920 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
13921 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
13922 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
13923 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
13924 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
13925 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
13926 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13927 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
13928 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
13929 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
13930 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
13932 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
13933 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
13934 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
13935 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
13936 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13938 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13939 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
13940 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
13941 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
13942 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
13943 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13944 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
13945 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
13946 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13948 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
13949 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
13950 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
13952 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
13953 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
13954 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
13957 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
13958 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
13959 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
13960 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
13963 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
13964 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
13965 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13967 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13968 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
13969 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
13971 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
13972 Resolves ticket 12205.
13973 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
13974 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
13975 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
13976 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
13978 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
13979 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
13980 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
13982 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
13983 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
13985 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
13986 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
13987 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
13988 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
13989 or_options_t structure.
13990 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
13991 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
13992 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
13993 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
13994 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
13995 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
13996 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
13997 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
13999 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
14000 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
14002 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
14004 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
14005 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
14006 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
14007 with a function instead.
14008 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
14009 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
14010 Closes ticket 13172.
14011 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
14012 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
14013 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
14014 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
14015 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
14016 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
14017 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
14018 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
14019 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
14020 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
14021 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
14022 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
14026 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
14027 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
14028 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
14029 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
14031 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
14032 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
14033 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
14034 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14035 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
14036 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14037 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
14038 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
14039 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
14040 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
14041 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
14042 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
14043 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
14044 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
14045 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
14046 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
14047 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
14048 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
14050 o Distribution (systemd):
14051 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
14052 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
14053 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
14054 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
14055 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
14057 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
14058 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
14060 o Downgraded warnings:
14061 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
14062 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
14065 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
14066 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
14067 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
14070 o Removed features (directory authorities):
14071 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
14072 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
14073 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
14074 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
14075 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
14076 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
14077 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
14078 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
14079 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
14081 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
14082 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
14083 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
14084 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
14087 o Removed features:
14088 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
14089 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
14090 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
14091 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
14092 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
14094 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
14095 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
14096 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
14097 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
14098 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
14099 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
14100 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
14101 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
14102 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
14104 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
14105 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
14107 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
14108 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
14109 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
14110 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
14111 anymore, and ignore it.
14113 o Removed platform support:
14114 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
14115 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
14116 Closes ticket 11446.
14118 o Testing (test-network.sh):
14119 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
14120 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
14122 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
14124 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
14125 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
14126 Partially implements ticket 13161.
14129 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
14130 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
14131 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
14132 (existing behavior).
14133 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
14134 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
14135 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
14136 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
14137 Closes ticket 14107.
14138 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
14139 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14140 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
14141 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
14143 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
14144 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
14145 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
14146 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
14147 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
14148 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
14150 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
14152 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
14153 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
14154 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
14155 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
14156 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
14157 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
14158 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
14159 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
14160 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
14161 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
14162 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
14163 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
14165 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
14166 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
14167 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
14169 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
14170 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
14172 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
14173 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
14174 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
14176 o Directory authority changes:
14177 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14178 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14179 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14180 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14181 closes ticket 14487.
14183 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
14184 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
14185 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
14188 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
14189 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14190 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
14191 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14192 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
14193 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14194 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14195 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14197 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
14198 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14199 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14200 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14202 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14203 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
14204 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
14205 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
14207 o Minor features (controller):
14208 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
14209 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
14210 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
14212 o Minor features (geoip):
14213 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14214 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14217 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
14218 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
14219 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
14220 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14221 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
14222 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14224 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14225 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
14226 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
14227 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
14229 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14230 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
14231 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
14232 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
14233 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
14234 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
14235 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
14236 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14238 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14239 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
14240 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14242 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
14243 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
14244 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
14245 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
14246 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
14250 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
14251 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
14252 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
14255 o Directory authority changes:
14256 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14257 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14258 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14259 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14260 closes ticket 14487.
14262 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
14263 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14264 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14265 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14267 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
14268 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14269 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
14270 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14271 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
14272 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14273 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14274 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14276 o Minor features (geoip):
14277 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14278 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14281 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
14282 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
14284 It adds several new security features, including improved
14285 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
14286 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
14287 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
14288 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
14289 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
14290 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
14291 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
14292 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
14293 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
14294 and features mentioned below.
14296 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
14297 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
14299 o Major features (security):
14300 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
14301 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
14302 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
14303 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
14304 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
14305 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
14306 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
14307 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
14308 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
14309 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
14311 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
14312 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
14313 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
14314 streams attached to each circuit.
14316 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
14317 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
14318 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
14319 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
14320 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
14321 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
14322 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
14323 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
14324 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
14325 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
14326 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
14327 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
14328 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
14330 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
14331 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
14332 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
14333 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
14335 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
14336 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
14337 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
14338 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
14339 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
14340 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
14342 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
14343 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
14344 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
14345 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
14346 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
14347 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
14348 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
14349 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
14352 o Major features (controller):
14353 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
14354 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
14355 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
14356 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
14357 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
14358 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
14360 o Major features (relay performance):
14361 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
14362 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
14363 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
14364 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
14365 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
14366 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
14367 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
14368 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
14369 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
14370 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
14372 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
14373 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
14374 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
14375 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
14376 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
14377 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
14378 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
14379 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
14380 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
14381 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
14383 o Major features (testing networks):
14384 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
14385 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
14386 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
14387 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
14388 Implements ticket 8530.
14390 o Major features (other):
14391 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
14392 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
14393 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
14394 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
14395 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
14396 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
14398 o Deprecated versions:
14399 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
14400 attention for some while.
14402 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
14403 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
14404 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
14406 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
14407 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
14408 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
14409 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
14410 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
14411 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
14412 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
14413 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
14414 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
14415 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
14416 router's identity is not forgeable.
14418 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
14419 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
14420 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
14421 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
14423 o Major bugfixes (client):
14424 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
14425 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
14426 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
14427 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
14428 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
14429 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
14430 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
14431 to build circuits".
14433 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
14434 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
14435 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
14436 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
14439 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
14440 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
14441 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
14442 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
14443 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
14444 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
14445 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14447 o Major bugfixes (relay):
14448 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
14449 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14450 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14451 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
14452 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
14453 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
14454 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14455 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
14456 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
14457 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
14458 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14459 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
14460 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
14461 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
14462 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
14463 bugfix on every version of Tor.
14465 o Minor features (security):
14466 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
14467 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
14468 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
14469 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
14471 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
14472 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
14473 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
14474 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
14475 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
14476 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
14477 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
14479 o Minor features (security, memory management):
14480 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
14481 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
14482 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
14483 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
14484 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
14485 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
14487 o Minor features (bridge client):
14488 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
14489 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
14490 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
14492 o Minor features (bridge):
14493 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
14494 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
14496 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
14497 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
14498 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
14499 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
14500 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
14501 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
14502 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
14503 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
14504 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
14505 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
14506 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
14507 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
14508 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
14509 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
14510 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
14512 o Minor features (build):
14513 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
14514 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
14515 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
14516 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
14517 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
14518 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
14519 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
14520 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
14521 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
14522 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
14523 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
14524 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
14525 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
14526 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
14527 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
14530 o Minor features (client):
14531 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
14532 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
14533 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
14534 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
14536 o Minor features (config options and command line):
14537 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
14538 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
14539 Implements ticket 10060.
14540 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
14541 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
14542 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
14544 o Minor features (config options):
14545 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
14546 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
14547 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
14548 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
14549 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
14550 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
14551 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
14552 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
14553 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
14554 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
14555 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
14556 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
14557 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
14558 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
14559 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
14560 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
14561 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
14564 o Minor features (controller):
14565 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
14566 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
14568 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
14569 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
14570 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
14571 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
14572 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
14573 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
14574 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
14575 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
14577 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
14578 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
14579 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
14581 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14582 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
14583 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
14584 help diagnose bug 7164.
14585 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
14586 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
14587 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
14588 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
14589 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
14591 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
14592 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
14593 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
14594 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
14595 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
14596 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
14597 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
14598 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
14599 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
14600 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
14601 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
14602 still referenced by a live node_t object.
14603 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
14604 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
14605 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
14607 o Minor features (geoip):
14608 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14611 o Minor features (interface):
14612 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
14613 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
14614 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
14615 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
14617 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
14618 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
14619 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
14621 o Minor features (log messages):
14622 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
14623 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
14624 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
14625 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
14626 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
14627 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
14628 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
14629 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
14631 o Minor features (log verbosity):
14632 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
14633 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
14634 Resolves ticket 5286.
14635 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
14636 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
14637 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
14638 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
14639 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
14640 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
14642 o Minor features (performance):
14643 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
14644 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
14645 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
14646 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
14647 Closes ticket 8109.
14649 o Minor features (relay):
14650 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
14651 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
14652 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
14654 o Minor features (testing):
14655 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
14656 the unit test scripts.
14657 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
14658 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
14659 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
14660 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
14662 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
14663 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
14664 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
14665 10267; patch from "yurivict".
14666 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
14667 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
14668 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
14669 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
14670 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
14671 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
14673 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
14674 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
14675 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
14676 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14678 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14679 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
14680 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
14681 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14682 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
14683 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
14684 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
14685 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
14686 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
14687 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
14689 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
14690 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
14691 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
14693 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
14694 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
14695 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
14696 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
14697 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14699 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14700 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
14701 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
14702 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
14703 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14704 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
14705 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
14706 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
14707 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14708 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
14709 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
14710 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
14712 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
14713 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
14714 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
14715 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
14716 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
14717 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14718 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
14719 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
14720 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14721 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
14722 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
14723 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14725 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
14726 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
14727 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
14728 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
14730 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
14731 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
14732 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
14733 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
14736 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
14737 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
14738 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
14739 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14740 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
14741 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
14744 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
14745 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
14746 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
14747 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
14748 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
14750 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
14751 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
14752 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
14755 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14756 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
14757 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
14758 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
14759 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
14760 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
14761 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
14762 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
14763 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
14764 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
14766 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
14767 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
14768 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
14769 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
14770 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
14772 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
14773 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14776 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
14777 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
14778 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
14779 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
14780 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
14781 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
14782 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
14783 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
14784 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14785 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
14786 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
14787 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
14789 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
14790 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
14791 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
14792 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
14793 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
14794 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
14795 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
14796 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
14797 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
14798 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
14799 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
14800 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
14801 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
14803 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
14804 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
14805 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
14807 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
14808 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
14809 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
14810 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
14811 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
14812 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
14814 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
14815 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
14816 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
14817 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
14818 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
14819 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
14820 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
14821 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
14822 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
14823 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14825 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14826 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
14827 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14829 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
14830 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
14831 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
14832 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
14833 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
14835 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14836 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
14837 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
14838 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14839 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
14840 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
14841 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
14842 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
14843 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
14844 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
14845 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
14846 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
14847 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
14848 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
14850 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14851 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
14852 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
14853 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
14854 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
14855 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
14856 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
14857 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
14858 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
14860 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
14861 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
14862 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
14863 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
14864 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
14865 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
14866 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
14868 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
14869 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
14871 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
14872 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
14873 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
14874 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
14876 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
14877 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
14878 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
14879 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14880 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
14881 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
14882 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
14883 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
14884 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
14885 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
14886 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
14887 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
14888 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14889 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
14890 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
14891 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
14892 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
14894 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
14895 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
14896 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
14897 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
14898 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
14899 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
14900 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
14901 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
14904 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
14905 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
14906 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
14907 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
14908 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
14909 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
14910 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14911 Reported by "mr-4".
14912 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
14913 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
14914 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
14915 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14917 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14918 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
14919 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
14920 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
14921 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
14922 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
14923 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
14924 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
14925 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14926 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
14927 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
14928 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
14930 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
14931 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
14932 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
14934 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
14935 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
14936 early. Fixes bug 10081.
14938 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14939 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
14940 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
14941 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
14944 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
14945 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
14946 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
14947 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
14950 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
14951 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
14952 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
14953 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
14955 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
14956 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
14957 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14959 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
14960 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
14961 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
14962 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
14963 versions. Found by "skruffy".
14964 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
14965 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
14966 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
14969 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
14970 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
14971 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14972 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
14973 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
14974 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
14975 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
14976 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
14977 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14978 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
14979 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
14981 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14982 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
14983 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
14984 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
14985 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
14987 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
14988 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
14989 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
14990 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
14993 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
14994 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
14995 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14996 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
14997 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
14998 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
14999 should never have affected anyone in practice.
15001 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15002 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
15003 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
15004 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
15005 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
15006 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
15007 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
15008 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
15009 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
15010 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
15011 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
15012 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
15013 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
15014 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
15015 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
15016 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
15017 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15018 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
15019 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
15020 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
15021 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
15022 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
15023 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
15024 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
15026 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
15027 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
15028 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
15029 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
15030 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
15031 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
15032 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
15033 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
15034 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
15036 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
15037 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
15040 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
15041 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
15043 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
15045 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
15046 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
15047 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
15048 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
15049 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
15050 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
15052 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
15053 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
15055 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
15056 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
15057 caches don't get confused.
15058 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
15059 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15060 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
15061 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
15062 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
15063 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
15064 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
15065 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
15066 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
15067 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
15068 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
15069 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
15070 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
15071 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
15072 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15073 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
15074 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
15075 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15078 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
15079 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
15080 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
15081 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
15082 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
15084 o Removed code and features:
15085 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
15086 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
15087 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
15088 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
15089 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
15090 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
15092 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
15093 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
15094 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
15095 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
15096 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
15097 part of a fix for bug 10841.
15098 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
15099 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
15100 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
15101 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
15102 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
15103 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
15105 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
15106 Resolves ticket 11070.
15107 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
15108 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
15109 the rest of bug 10841.
15110 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
15111 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
15112 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
15113 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
15115 o Test infrastructure:
15116 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
15117 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
15118 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
15119 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
15120 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
15121 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
15122 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
15123 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
15124 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
15125 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
15127 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
15128 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
15129 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
15130 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
15131 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
15132 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
15133 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
15134 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
15135 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
15136 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
15137 invoking the other functions it calls.
15140 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
15141 Patch from Dana Koch.
15142 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
15143 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
15144 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
15145 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
15147 o Distribution (systemd):
15148 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
15149 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
15150 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
15151 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
15152 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
15153 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
15154 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
15155 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
15156 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
15157 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
15158 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
15159 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
15160 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15164 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
15165 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
15166 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
15167 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
15168 (which does affect Tor).
15170 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
15171 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15172 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15173 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15175 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
15176 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
15177 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
15178 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
15181 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
15182 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
15183 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
15184 the directory authorities.
15187 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
15188 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
15189 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
15190 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
15191 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
15192 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
15193 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
15194 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
15195 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
15196 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
15197 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
15198 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15200 o Directory authority changes:
15201 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
15203 o Minor features (geoip):
15204 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15208 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
15209 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
15210 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
15211 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
15214 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
15215 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
15216 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
15217 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
15218 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
15219 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
15220 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
15221 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
15222 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
15223 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
15226 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
15227 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
15228 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
15229 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
15230 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
15231 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
15232 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
15233 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
15237 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
15238 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
15239 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
15240 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
15241 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
15242 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
15243 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
15244 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
15245 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15246 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
15247 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
15248 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
15249 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
15252 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15256 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
15257 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
15258 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
15259 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
15260 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
15261 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
15262 of RAM, and several others.
15264 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15265 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
15266 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
15267 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
15268 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
15270 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
15271 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
15272 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
15273 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
15276 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15277 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
15278 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
15279 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
15280 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
15281 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
15282 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15283 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
15284 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
15285 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
15286 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
15287 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
15288 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
15289 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
15290 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
15291 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
15292 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
15293 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
15294 Resolves ticket 11438.
15296 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
15297 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
15298 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
15299 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
15300 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
15301 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15303 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15304 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
15305 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15307 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15308 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
15309 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15311 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15312 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
15313 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
15314 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15316 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15317 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
15318 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
15320 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15321 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
15322 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15325 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
15326 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
15327 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
15328 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
15331 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15332 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
15333 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
15334 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
15336 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15337 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
15338 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
15339 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
15341 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15342 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
15343 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
15347 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
15348 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
15349 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
15350 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
15352 o Major features (client security):
15353 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
15354 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
15355 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
15356 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
15357 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
15358 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
15361 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
15362 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
15363 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
15364 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15366 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15367 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
15368 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
15369 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
15370 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
15373 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
15374 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
15376 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
15377 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
15378 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
15379 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
15380 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
15381 GeoLite2 Country database.
15384 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
15385 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
15386 bugfix on every released Tor.
15387 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
15388 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
15389 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
15390 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15391 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
15392 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
15393 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15394 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
15395 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
15396 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15397 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
15398 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
15399 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15400 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
15401 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15403 o Documentation fixes:
15404 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
15405 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15408 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
15409 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
15410 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
15411 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
15412 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
15413 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
15414 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
15416 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
15417 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
15420 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
15421 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
15422 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
15423 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
15424 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
15425 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
15426 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
15427 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
15429 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
15430 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15431 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
15432 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
15433 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
15434 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
15437 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
15438 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15439 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
15440 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
15441 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
15444 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
15445 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
15446 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
15447 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
15448 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
15449 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
15450 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
15451 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
15453 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
15454 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
15455 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
15456 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
15457 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
15458 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
15459 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
15460 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
15461 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
15462 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
15463 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
15464 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
15465 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
15466 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
15467 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
15468 security, and privacy fixes.
15470 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
15471 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
15472 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
15473 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
15474 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
15475 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
15476 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
15477 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
15478 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
15479 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
15480 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
15482 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
15483 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
15484 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
15486 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
15488 o Major features (better link encryption):
15489 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
15490 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
15491 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
15492 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
15493 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
15494 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
15497 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
15498 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
15499 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
15500 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
15502 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
15504 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
15505 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
15506 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
15507 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
15508 them to solve bug 6033.)
15510 o Major features (relay performance):
15511 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
15512 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
15513 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
15514 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
15515 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
15516 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
15517 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
15518 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
15519 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
15520 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
15521 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
15522 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
15523 Implements ticket 9574.
15525 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
15526 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
15527 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
15528 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
15529 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
15530 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
15531 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
15532 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
15533 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
15534 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
15535 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
15536 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
15537 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
15538 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
15539 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
15540 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
15542 o Major features (use of guards):
15543 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
15544 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
15545 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
15546 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
15547 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
15548 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
15549 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
15550 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
15551 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
15552 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
15553 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
15554 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
15555 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
15556 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15558 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
15559 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
15560 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
15561 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
15563 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
15564 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
15567 o Major features (geoip database):
15568 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
15569 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
15570 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
15571 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
15572 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
15573 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
15575 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
15577 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15579 o Major features (IPv6):
15580 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
15581 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
15582 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
15583 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
15584 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
15585 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
15586 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
15587 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
15588 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
15589 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
15590 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
15591 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
15592 revised in proposal 208.
15593 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
15594 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
15595 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
15597 o Major features (directory authorities):
15598 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
15599 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
15601 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
15602 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
15603 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
15604 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
15605 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
15606 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
15607 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
15608 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
15609 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
15610 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
15611 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
15613 o Major features (build and portability):
15614 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
15615 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
15616 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
15617 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
15618 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
15619 fixes by Jim Meyering.
15620 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
15621 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
15622 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
15623 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
15624 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
15625 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
15627 o Security features:
15628 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
15629 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
15630 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
15631 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
15632 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
15633 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
15634 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
15635 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
15636 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
15639 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
15640 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
15641 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
15642 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
15643 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
15644 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
15645 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
15646 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
15647 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
15648 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
15649 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
15650 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
15651 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
15652 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
15653 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
15654 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
15655 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
15656 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15658 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
15659 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
15660 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
15661 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
15663 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
15664 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
15665 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
15667 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
15668 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
15669 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15670 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
15671 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
15672 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15673 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
15674 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
15675 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
15677 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
15678 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15680 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
15681 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
15682 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
15683 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
15684 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
15685 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
15686 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
15687 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
15688 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
15689 last time we raised it).
15690 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
15691 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
15692 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
15694 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
15695 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
15696 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
15697 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
15698 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
15699 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
15700 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
15701 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
15702 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
15703 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
15704 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
15705 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
15706 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15708 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
15709 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
15710 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
15711 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
15712 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
15713 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
15714 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
15715 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
15716 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15717 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
15718 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
15719 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
15720 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
15722 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
15723 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
15724 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
15725 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
15726 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
15727 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
15728 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
15729 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
15730 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
15732 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
15733 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
15734 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
15735 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
15736 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
15737 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
15738 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
15739 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
15740 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
15741 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
15742 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
15743 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
15744 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
15745 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
15746 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
15747 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
15748 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
15751 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
15752 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
15753 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
15754 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15756 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
15757 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
15758 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
15759 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
15761 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
15762 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
15763 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
15764 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
15765 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
15766 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
15769 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
15770 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
15771 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
15772 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
15773 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
15774 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
15775 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15777 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
15778 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
15779 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
15780 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15782 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15783 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
15784 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
15785 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
15786 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
15787 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
15788 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
15789 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
15791 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
15792 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
15793 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
15795 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
15796 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
15797 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15799 o Internal abstraction features:
15800 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
15801 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
15802 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
15803 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
15804 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
15805 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
15806 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
15807 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
15808 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
15809 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
15810 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
15811 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
15812 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
15813 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
15814 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
15815 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
15816 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
15818 o New build requirements:
15819 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
15820 strongly recommended.
15821 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
15822 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
15823 from a source distribution.)
15825 o Minor features (protocol):
15826 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
15827 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
15829 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
15830 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
15831 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
15832 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
15833 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
15834 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
15835 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
15836 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
15837 closes ticket 7199.
15838 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
15839 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
15841 o Minor features (security):
15842 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
15843 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
15844 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
15845 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
15846 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
15847 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
15848 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
15849 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
15850 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
15852 o Minor features (control protocol):
15853 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
15855 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
15856 Implements ticket 4971.
15857 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
15858 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
15859 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
15860 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
15861 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
15863 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
15864 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
15866 o Minor features (path selection):
15867 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
15868 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
15869 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
15870 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
15871 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
15872 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
15873 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
15874 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
15875 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
15876 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
15877 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
15878 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
15879 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
15880 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
15882 o Minor features (hidden services):
15883 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
15884 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
15885 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
15886 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
15887 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
15888 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
15889 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
15890 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
15891 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
15892 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
15893 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
15894 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
15895 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
15897 o Minor features (clients):
15898 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
15899 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
15900 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
15901 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
15902 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
15903 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
15904 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
15905 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
15906 the ORPort and the DirPort.
15908 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
15909 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
15910 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
15911 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
15912 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
15913 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
15914 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
15915 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
15916 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
15917 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
15918 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
15919 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
15920 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
15921 Implements part of proposal 222.
15923 o Minor features (bridges):
15924 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
15925 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
15926 bugs 1913 and 1992.
15927 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
15928 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
15929 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
15930 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
15931 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
15932 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
15933 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
15934 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
15935 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
15936 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
15937 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
15939 o Minor features (relays):
15940 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
15941 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
15943 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
15944 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
15945 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
15946 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
15947 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
15948 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
15949 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
15950 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
15951 connect to the wrong addresses.
15952 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
15953 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
15954 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
15955 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
15958 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
15959 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
15960 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
15961 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
15962 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
15963 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
15965 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15966 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
15967 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
15968 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
15970 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
15971 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
15972 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
15973 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
15974 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
15975 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
15977 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
15978 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
15979 Implements ticket 8151.
15980 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
15981 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
15982 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
15983 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
15985 o Minor features (path bias detection):
15986 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
15987 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
15988 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
15989 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
15990 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
15991 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
15992 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
15993 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
15994 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
15995 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
15996 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
15997 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
15998 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
15999 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
16000 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
16001 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
16002 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
16003 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
16004 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
16005 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
16006 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
16007 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
16008 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
16009 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
16010 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
16011 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
16012 detection capability loss.
16014 o Minor features (build):
16015 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
16016 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
16017 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
16019 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
16020 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
16021 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16023 o Build improvements (autotools):
16024 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
16025 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
16026 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
16028 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
16029 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
16030 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
16031 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
16033 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
16034 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
16035 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
16036 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
16037 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
16038 than to perform erroneously.
16039 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
16041 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
16042 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
16043 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
16045 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
16046 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
16047 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
16048 hard-to-track-down errors.
16049 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
16050 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
16051 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
16052 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
16053 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
16054 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
16055 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
16056 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16057 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
16058 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
16059 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
16061 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
16062 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
16063 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
16064 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
16065 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
16066 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
16067 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
16068 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
16069 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
16070 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
16072 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
16073 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
16074 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
16075 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
16076 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
16077 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
16078 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
16079 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
16080 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
16081 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
16082 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
16083 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
16084 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
16086 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
16087 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
16088 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
16089 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
16090 or at least make it more diagnosable.
16091 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
16092 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
16093 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
16094 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
16096 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
16097 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
16098 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
16099 part of ticket 6736.
16100 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
16101 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
16102 Resolves ticket 6758.
16103 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
16104 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
16105 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
16106 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16107 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
16108 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
16109 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
16111 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
16112 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
16113 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
16114 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16116 o Minor features (testing):
16117 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
16118 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
16120 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
16121 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
16122 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
16125 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
16126 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
16128 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
16129 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
16130 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
16131 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
16132 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
16133 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
16134 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
16135 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
16136 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
16137 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
16138 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
16139 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
16140 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
16141 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
16142 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
16143 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
16144 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
16146 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
16147 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
16148 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
16149 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
16150 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
16151 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
16152 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
16153 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
16154 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
16155 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
16156 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
16157 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
16158 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
16159 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
16160 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
16161 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
16162 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
16163 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16164 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
16165 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
16168 o Minor fixes (config options):
16169 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
16170 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
16171 or we just won't work.)
16172 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
16173 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
16174 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16175 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
16176 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
16177 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
16178 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
16179 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16180 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
16181 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
16182 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
16183 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16184 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
16185 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
16186 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
16187 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16188 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
16189 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
16190 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
16192 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
16193 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
16194 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
16196 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
16197 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
16198 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
16199 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
16201 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
16202 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
16203 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
16204 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
16205 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
16206 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16207 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
16208 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
16209 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
16210 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
16211 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16212 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
16213 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
16214 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
16215 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
16216 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
16219 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
16220 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
16221 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
16222 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
16223 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
16224 Should help resolve bug 8235.
16225 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
16226 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
16227 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
16228 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16229 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
16230 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
16231 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
16232 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
16233 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
16234 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
16235 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16237 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16238 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
16239 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
16240 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
16241 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
16242 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
16243 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
16244 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
16246 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
16247 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
16248 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
16249 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
16251 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16252 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
16253 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
16254 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
16255 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
16257 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
16258 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
16259 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
16260 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16261 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
16262 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16264 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16265 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
16266 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16267 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
16268 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
16269 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
16270 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
16271 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
16272 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
16274 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16275 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
16276 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
16277 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
16278 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16279 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
16280 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
16281 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
16282 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
16283 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
16284 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
16285 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
16287 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
16288 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
16289 this is CID 718634.
16290 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
16291 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
16292 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
16293 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
16295 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
16296 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
16298 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
16299 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
16300 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
16301 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
16302 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
16303 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
16304 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
16305 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16306 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
16307 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
16308 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
16309 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16310 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
16311 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
16312 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16313 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
16314 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
16315 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
16317 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
16318 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
16319 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
16320 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
16321 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16322 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
16323 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
16324 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
16325 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
16326 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16327 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
16328 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
16329 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
16332 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
16333 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
16334 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
16335 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
16336 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
16338 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
16339 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16340 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
16341 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
16342 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
16343 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16344 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
16345 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
16346 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
16349 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16350 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
16351 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16352 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16354 o Documentation fixes:
16355 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
16356 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16357 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
16358 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
16359 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
16360 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
16361 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
16363 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
16364 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
16365 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
16366 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
16367 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
16368 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
16369 message is logged at notice, not at info.
16370 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
16371 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
16372 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
16373 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
16374 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
16375 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
16377 o Removed features:
16378 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
16379 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
16380 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
16382 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
16383 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
16384 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
16385 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
16386 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
16387 compatibility code.
16390 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
16391 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
16393 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
16394 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
16396 o Code simplification:
16397 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
16398 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
16399 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
16400 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
16402 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
16403 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
16405 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
16406 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
16407 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
16408 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
16409 present the same extensions.)
16410 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
16412 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
16413 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
16414 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
16415 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
16417 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
16418 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
16419 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
16420 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
16423 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
16425 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
16426 and the different handshakes it supports.
16427 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
16428 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
16429 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
16430 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
16432 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
16433 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
16434 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
16435 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
16436 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
16437 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
16438 testable, and a little less fragile too.
16439 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
16440 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
16441 Implements ticket 5529.
16442 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
16443 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
16444 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
16447 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
16448 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
16449 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
16450 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
16451 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
16452 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16453 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
16454 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
16455 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
16456 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
16457 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
16458 any encoding is overkill.
16459 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
16460 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16461 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
16462 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
16463 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
16464 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
16465 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
16466 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
16467 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
16470 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
16471 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
16472 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
16473 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
16474 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
16475 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
16476 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
16477 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
16479 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
16480 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
16481 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
16482 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
16483 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
16484 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
16485 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
16486 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
16487 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
16488 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
16489 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
16491 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
16492 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
16493 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
16494 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
16495 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
16496 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
16497 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
16498 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
16499 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
16500 describes microdescriptors.
16502 o Major features (build hardening):
16503 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
16505 o Major features (relay scaling):
16506 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
16507 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
16508 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
16509 much faster than other AES implementations.
16510 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
16511 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
16512 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
16513 Resolves ticket 4526.
16514 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
16515 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
16517 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
16518 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
16519 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
16520 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
16522 o Major features (blocking resistance):
16523 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
16525 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
16526 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
16527 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
16528 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
16529 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
16530 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
16531 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
16532 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
16533 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
16534 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
16535 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
16536 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
16537 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
16538 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
16539 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
16540 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
16541 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
16542 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
16543 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
16545 o Major features (pluggable transports):
16546 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
16547 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
16548 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
16549 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
16551 o Major features (DoS resistance):
16552 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
16553 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
16554 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
16555 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
16556 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
16557 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
16558 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
16559 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
16560 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
16561 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
16562 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
16564 o Major features (hidden services):
16565 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
16566 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
16567 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
16569 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
16570 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
16571 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
16572 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
16573 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
16574 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
16576 o Major features (IPv6):
16577 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
16578 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
16579 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
16580 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
16581 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
16583 o Major features (directory authorities):
16584 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
16585 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
16586 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
16587 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
16588 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
16589 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
16590 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
16591 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
16592 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
16593 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
16595 o Major features (performance):
16596 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
16597 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
16598 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
16599 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
16600 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
16601 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
16602 side of Proposal 174.
16603 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
16604 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
16605 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
16606 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
16607 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
16608 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
16609 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
16610 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
16611 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
16612 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
16613 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
16614 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
16616 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
16617 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
16618 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
16619 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
16620 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
16623 o Major features (relays):
16624 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
16625 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
16626 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
16627 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
16628 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
16629 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
16630 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
16632 o Major features (stream isolation):
16633 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
16634 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
16635 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
16636 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
16637 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
16638 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
16639 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
16640 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
16641 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
16642 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
16643 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
16644 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
16645 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
16646 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
16648 o Major features (bufferevents):
16649 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
16650 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
16651 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
16652 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
16653 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
16654 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
16655 zero-copy transports where available.
16656 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
16657 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
16658 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
16659 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
16660 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
16661 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
16663 o Major features (path selection):
16664 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
16665 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
16666 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
16667 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
16670 o Major features (port forwarding):
16671 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
16672 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
16673 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
16674 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
16675 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
16676 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
16678 o Major features (logging):
16679 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
16680 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
16681 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
16682 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
16683 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
16684 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
16685 Implements enhancement 1668.
16687 o Major features (other):
16688 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
16689 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
16690 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
16691 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
16692 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
16693 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
16694 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
16695 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
16696 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
16697 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
16698 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
16699 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
16700 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
16701 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
16702 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
16703 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
16704 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
16705 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
16706 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
16707 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
16709 o New directory authorities:
16710 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
16711 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
16713 o Security/privacy fixes:
16714 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
16715 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
16716 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16717 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
16718 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
16719 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
16720 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16721 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
16722 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
16723 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
16724 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
16725 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
16726 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
16727 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
16728 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
16729 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
16730 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
16731 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
16732 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
16733 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
16734 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
16735 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
16736 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
16737 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
16738 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
16739 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
16740 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
16741 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
16742 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
16743 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
16744 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
16746 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
16747 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
16748 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
16749 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
16750 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
16751 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
16752 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
16753 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16754 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
16755 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
16756 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
16757 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
16758 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
16759 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
16762 o Major bugfixes (clients):
16763 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
16764 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
16765 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
16766 which introduced predicted ports.
16767 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
16768 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
16769 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
16770 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
16771 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
16772 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
16773 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16774 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
16775 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
16777 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
16778 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
16779 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
16780 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
16781 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
16782 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
16784 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
16785 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
16786 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
16787 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
16788 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16789 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
16790 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
16791 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
16792 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
16793 documents entirely.
16795 o Major bugfixes (relays):
16796 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
16797 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
16798 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
16799 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
16800 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
16801 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
16802 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
16803 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
16804 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
16805 immensely in tracking this bug down.
16806 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
16807 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
16808 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
16809 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
16810 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
16811 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
16812 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16814 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
16815 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
16816 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
16817 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
16818 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
16819 cells were introduced.
16820 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
16821 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
16822 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
16823 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
16825 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16826 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
16827 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
16828 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
16829 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
16830 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
16831 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
16832 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
16833 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
16834 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
16835 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
16836 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
16837 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
16838 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
16839 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
16840 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
16841 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
16842 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
16843 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
16844 Fixes part of bug 3825.
16846 o Changes to default torrc file:
16847 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
16848 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
16850 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
16851 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
16852 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
16854 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
16855 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
16856 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
16858 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16859 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
16860 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
16861 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
16862 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
16863 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
16864 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
16865 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
16866 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
16867 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
16868 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
16869 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
16870 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
16871 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
16872 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
16873 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
16876 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
16877 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
16878 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
16879 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
16880 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
16881 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
16882 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
16883 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
16884 sure. Closes bug 5139.
16885 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
16886 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
16887 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
16888 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
16889 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
16891 o Minor features (IPv6):
16892 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
16893 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
16894 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
16895 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
16896 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
16897 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
16899 o Minor features (hidden services):
16900 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
16901 Required by fix for bug 3460.
16902 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
16903 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
16904 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
16905 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
16906 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
16907 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
16908 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
16909 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
16910 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
16912 o Minor features (relays):
16913 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
16914 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
16915 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
16916 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
16917 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
16918 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
16919 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
16920 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
16921 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
16922 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
16923 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
16926 o Minor features (new config options):
16927 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
16928 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
16929 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
16930 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
16931 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
16932 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
16933 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
16934 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
16935 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
16936 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
16937 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
16938 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
16940 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
16941 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
16942 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
16943 Implements issue 933.
16944 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
16945 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
16946 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
16947 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
16948 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
16949 implements ticket 3439.
16950 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
16951 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
16952 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
16953 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
16954 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
16955 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
16956 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
16957 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
16959 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
16960 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
16961 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
16962 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
16963 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
16964 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
16965 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
16966 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
16967 appending to the list.
16968 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
16969 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
16970 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
16971 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
16974 o Minor features (controller, new events):
16975 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
16976 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
16977 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
16978 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
16979 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
16980 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
16982 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
16983 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
16984 circuit-status' control-port command.
16985 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
16986 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
16987 user. Implements ticket 1692.
16988 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
16989 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
16990 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
16992 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
16993 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
16994 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
16995 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
16996 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
16997 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
16998 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
16999 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
17000 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
17002 o Minor features (controller, other):
17003 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
17004 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
17005 part of ticket 3457.
17006 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
17007 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
17008 file. Resolves bug 1101.
17009 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
17010 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
17012 o Minor features (log messages):
17013 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
17014 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
17015 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
17016 please let us know about it.
17017 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
17018 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
17019 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
17020 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
17021 Resolves ticket 2474.
17022 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
17023 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
17025 o Minor features (other):
17026 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
17027 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
17028 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
17029 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
17031 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
17032 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
17033 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
17034 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
17035 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
17036 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
17037 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
17039 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
17040 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
17041 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
17042 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
17043 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
17045 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
17046 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
17047 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
17048 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
17049 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
17050 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
17051 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17052 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
17053 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17054 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
17055 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
17056 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
17057 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
17058 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
17059 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
17060 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
17063 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
17064 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
17065 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
17066 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
17067 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
17068 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
17069 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17070 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
17071 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
17073 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
17074 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
17075 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
17076 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
17077 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
17078 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
17079 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17080 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
17081 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
17082 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17084 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17085 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
17086 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17087 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
17088 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
17089 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
17090 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17091 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
17092 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
17094 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
17095 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
17096 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17097 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
17098 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
17099 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
17100 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
17101 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
17102 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
17104 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
17105 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
17106 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
17107 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
17108 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
17109 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
17110 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
17112 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
17113 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
17114 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
17115 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
17117 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17118 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
17119 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
17120 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17121 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
17122 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
17123 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
17124 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
17125 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
17126 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
17127 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
17128 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
17131 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
17132 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
17133 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17134 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
17135 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
17136 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
17138 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
17139 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
17140 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17141 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
17142 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
17143 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
17144 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17145 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
17146 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
17147 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
17148 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
17149 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
17150 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
17151 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
17152 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
17154 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
17155 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
17156 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
17157 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
17158 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
17159 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
17161 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
17162 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
17163 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
17164 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
17165 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
17166 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
17167 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
17168 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
17169 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
17170 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
17171 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
17172 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
17173 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
17174 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
17175 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17177 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
17178 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
17179 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
17180 be disabled using the new
17181 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
17182 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17183 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
17184 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
17185 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
17186 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
17187 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
17189 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
17190 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
17191 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
17192 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17193 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
17194 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
17195 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
17197 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
17198 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
17199 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
17200 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
17201 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17202 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
17203 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
17204 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
17206 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
17207 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
17208 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
17209 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17210 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
17211 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
17212 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
17213 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17215 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17216 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
17217 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
17218 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
17219 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
17220 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
17221 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
17222 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
17224 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
17225 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
17226 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
17227 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
17229 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
17230 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
17231 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
17233 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
17234 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
17236 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
17237 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
17238 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
17239 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
17240 case for flushing marked connections.
17241 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
17242 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
17243 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
17244 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
17245 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
17246 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17247 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
17248 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
17249 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
17250 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17252 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17253 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
17254 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
17255 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
17256 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
17257 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
17258 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
17259 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
17260 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
17261 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
17262 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
17264 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
17265 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17266 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
17267 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
17268 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17270 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
17271 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
17272 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
17273 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
17274 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17275 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
17276 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
17277 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
17278 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
17279 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
17280 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
17281 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
17282 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
17283 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
17284 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
17285 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
17287 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
17288 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
17289 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
17290 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17291 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
17292 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
17293 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17294 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
17295 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17296 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
17297 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
17298 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
17299 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
17300 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
17301 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
17302 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
17303 Implements ticket 3264.
17304 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
17306 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
17307 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
17308 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
17309 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
17310 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
17311 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
17313 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
17314 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
17315 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
17316 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
17317 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
17318 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17319 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
17320 them from the other auths.
17321 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
17322 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
17323 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
17324 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17325 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
17326 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
17327 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
17328 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
17332 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
17333 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
17334 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
17336 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
17337 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
17338 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
17339 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
17340 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
17341 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
17342 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
17343 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
17345 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
17346 ./src/test/bench binary.
17347 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
17348 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
17349 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
17350 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
17353 o Build improvements:
17354 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
17355 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
17356 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
17357 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
17358 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
17359 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
17360 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
17361 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17362 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
17363 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
17364 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
17365 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
17366 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
17367 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
17368 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
17369 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
17370 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
17371 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
17372 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
17373 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
17374 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
17376 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
17378 o Build requirements:
17379 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
17380 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
17381 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
17382 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
17383 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
17384 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
17385 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
17386 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
17387 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
17388 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
17389 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
17390 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
17391 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
17393 o Build fixes (compile/link):
17394 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
17395 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
17397 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
17398 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
17399 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
17400 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
17401 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
17402 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
17403 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17404 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
17405 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17407 o Build fixes (other):
17408 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
17409 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
17411 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
17412 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
17413 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
17414 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17415 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
17416 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
17417 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
17418 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
17420 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
17421 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
17424 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
17425 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
17426 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
17427 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
17428 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
17429 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
17430 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
17431 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
17433 o Code refactoring (safety):
17434 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
17435 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
17436 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
17437 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
17438 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
17439 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
17440 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
17441 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
17442 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
17443 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
17444 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
17445 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
17447 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
17448 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
17449 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
17450 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
17451 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
17452 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
17453 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
17454 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
17455 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
17456 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
17457 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
17458 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
17459 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
17460 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
17461 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
17462 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
17463 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
17464 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
17466 o Code refactoring (separate):
17467 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
17468 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
17469 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
17471 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
17472 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
17475 o Code refactoring (name changes):
17476 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
17477 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
17478 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
17479 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
17480 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
17481 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
17482 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
17484 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
17485 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
17486 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
17487 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
17488 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
17489 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
17490 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
17491 invalid value, rather than just -1.
17492 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
17493 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
17494 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
17496 o Code refactoring (other):
17497 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
17498 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
17500 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
17501 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
17502 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
17503 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
17504 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
17505 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
17506 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
17507 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
17508 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
17509 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
17510 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
17511 our library structure used to force them to link it.
17513 o Removed features and files:
17514 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
17515 it would be a bad idea to start.
17516 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
17518 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
17519 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
17520 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
17521 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
17522 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
17523 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
17524 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
17525 are no longer in use as relays.
17526 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
17527 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
17528 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
17529 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
17530 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
17531 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
17535 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
17536 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
17537 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
17539 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
17540 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
17542 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
17543 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
17544 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
17546 o Documentation fixes:
17547 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
17548 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
17549 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
17550 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
17551 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
17552 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
17553 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
17554 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
17557 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
17558 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
17562 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17563 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17564 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17565 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
17566 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
17567 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
17568 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
17572 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
17573 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
17574 attack that could in theory leak path information.
17577 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
17578 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
17579 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17580 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
17581 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
17582 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
17583 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
17584 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
17585 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
17586 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
17587 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
17588 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
17589 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
17590 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
17593 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
17594 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
17595 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
17599 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
17600 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
17601 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
17602 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
17603 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
17604 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
17605 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17606 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
17607 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
17608 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
17609 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17612 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
17613 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
17616 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
17617 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
17620 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
17621 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
17622 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
17623 and fixes several crash bugs.
17625 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
17626 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
17627 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
17628 those packages and upgrade anyway.
17630 o Directory authority changes:
17631 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
17632 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
17636 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
17637 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
17638 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
17639 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
17640 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
17641 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
17642 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
17643 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
17644 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
17645 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
17646 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
17647 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
17648 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
17649 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
17650 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
17651 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
17652 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
17653 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
17654 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
17655 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
17656 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
17657 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
17658 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
17659 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
17660 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
17661 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
17662 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
17665 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
17666 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17667 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
17668 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
17670 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
17671 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
17673 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
17674 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
17675 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
17676 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
17677 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
17678 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
17679 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
17680 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
17683 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
17684 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
17685 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
17686 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
17687 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
17688 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
17689 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
17690 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
17691 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
17692 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
17693 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
17694 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
17695 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
17696 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
17697 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
17698 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
17699 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
17700 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
17701 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
17702 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
17703 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
17704 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
17705 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
17706 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
17707 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17708 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
17709 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
17710 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
17711 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
17712 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
17713 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
17714 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
17715 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17716 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
17717 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17718 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
17719 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
17720 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
17721 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
17722 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17723 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
17724 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17725 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
17726 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
17727 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
17728 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17730 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
17731 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
17732 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
17733 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
17734 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
17735 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
17736 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
17737 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
17738 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
17739 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
17740 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17741 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
17742 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17743 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
17744 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
17747 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
17748 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
17749 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
17750 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
17752 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17755 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
17756 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
17757 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
17758 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
17759 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
17760 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
17761 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
17764 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
17765 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
17766 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
17768 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
17769 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
17770 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
17771 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
17772 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
17773 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
17774 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
17775 (which Tor does not do by default).
17777 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
17778 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
17779 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
17780 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
17781 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
17783 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
17784 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
17785 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
17788 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
17789 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
17790 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
17791 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
17792 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
17794 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
17795 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
17798 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17799 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17800 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17801 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17802 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
17803 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
17804 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
17805 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
17807 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
17808 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
17809 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
17810 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
17811 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
17812 close based on processing a cell on it.
17813 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17814 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17815 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17816 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17817 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
17818 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
17819 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17820 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
17821 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
17822 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
17823 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
17824 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
17825 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
17826 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
17827 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
17830 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
17831 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
17832 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
17833 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
17834 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
17835 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
17836 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
17838 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
17839 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
17840 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
17841 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
17842 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
17843 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17844 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
17845 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
17846 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17847 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
17848 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
17849 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
17850 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
17851 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17852 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
17853 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
17854 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
17855 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
17856 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17857 Reported by "troll_un".
17858 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
17859 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17860 Reported by "troll_un".
17861 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
17862 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
17863 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
17864 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
17867 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
17868 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
17869 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
17870 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
17871 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
17872 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
17873 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
17874 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
17875 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
17876 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
17877 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17879 o Packaging changes:
17880 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
17881 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
17884 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
17885 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
17886 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
17887 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
17888 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
17890 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
17891 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
17893 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17894 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17895 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17896 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17897 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17898 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17899 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17900 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17901 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17904 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17907 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
17908 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
17909 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
17911 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
17912 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
17913 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
17914 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
17915 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
17916 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
17917 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
17918 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
17919 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
17920 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
17921 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
17922 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
17923 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
17925 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
17926 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
17927 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
17928 currently connected to them.
17930 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
17931 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
17932 remain; see for example proposal 188.
17934 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
17935 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
17936 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
17937 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
17938 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
17939 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
17940 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
17941 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
17942 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
17943 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
17944 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
17945 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
17946 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
17947 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
17948 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
17949 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
17950 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
17951 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
17954 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
17955 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
17956 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
17957 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
17958 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
17959 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
17960 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
17961 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
17962 when bridges were introduced.
17963 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
17964 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
17965 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
17966 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17967 Found by "frosty_un".
17970 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
17971 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
17973 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
17974 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
17975 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
17976 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
17977 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
17978 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
17979 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
17982 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
17983 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
17984 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
17985 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
17986 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
17987 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
17988 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
17989 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
17990 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
17991 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
17992 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
17993 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
17994 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
17995 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
17996 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
17997 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
17998 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
17999 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
18001 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
18002 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
18003 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
18004 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18005 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
18006 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
18007 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
18008 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
18009 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
18010 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
18011 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
18012 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18015 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18016 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18017 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
18018 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18021 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
18022 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
18023 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
18024 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
18025 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
18027 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18028 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
18029 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
18030 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
18031 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
18032 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
18033 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
18034 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
18035 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
18036 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18038 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18039 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
18040 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
18041 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
18042 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
18043 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
18044 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
18045 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
18046 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
18047 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
18048 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
18049 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
18050 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
18051 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
18052 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18053 Found by "frosty_un".
18054 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
18055 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
18056 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
18057 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
18058 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
18059 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18060 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18061 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18062 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18063 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
18064 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
18065 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
18066 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18067 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
18068 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
18069 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
18070 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
18071 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
18072 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
18074 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18075 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
18076 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
18077 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
18078 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
18079 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
18080 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
18081 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
18083 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
18084 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
18085 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
18086 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
18087 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
18088 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
18089 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
18090 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
18091 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
18092 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
18093 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
18094 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
18096 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18097 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18098 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
18099 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18100 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
18101 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18102 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
18103 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
18104 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
18106 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
18108 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
18109 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
18110 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
18111 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18112 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
18113 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
18114 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
18115 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18117 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
18118 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
18119 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
18120 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
18121 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
18123 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
18124 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18125 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18126 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
18127 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18130 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
18131 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
18132 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
18133 reachable from Iran again.
18136 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
18137 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
18138 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18140 o Minor features (security):
18141 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
18142 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
18143 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
18144 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
18145 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
18146 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
18147 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
18148 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
18149 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
18150 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
18153 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18154 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18155 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
18156 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
18157 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
18158 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
18159 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
18160 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
18161 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18163 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
18164 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
18165 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
18166 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
18167 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
18168 raised by bug 3898.
18169 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
18170 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
18171 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
18172 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
18173 fixes part of bug 2442.
18174 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
18175 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
18176 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
18178 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
18179 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
18180 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
18181 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
18182 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18185 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
18186 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18187 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
18188 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
18189 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
18190 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
18193 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
18194 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
18195 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
18196 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
18197 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
18198 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
18199 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
18200 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
18201 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
18202 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
18204 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
18205 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
18206 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
18207 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
18208 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
18209 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
18210 many many other features and bugfixes.
18212 o Major features (client performance):
18213 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
18214 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
18215 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
18216 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
18217 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
18218 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
18220 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
18221 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
18222 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
18223 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
18224 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
18225 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
18226 the first implementation of this feature.
18228 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
18229 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
18230 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
18231 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
18232 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
18233 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
18234 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
18235 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
18236 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
18237 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
18238 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
18239 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
18240 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
18241 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
18242 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
18243 file. Implements ticket 1296.
18245 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
18246 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
18247 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
18248 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
18249 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
18250 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
18251 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
18252 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
18253 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
18254 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
18255 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
18256 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
18257 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
18258 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
18259 they first get the Guard flag.
18260 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
18261 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
18262 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
18263 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
18264 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
18265 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
18266 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
18267 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
18269 o Major features (relays control their load better):
18270 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
18271 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
18272 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
18273 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
18274 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
18275 based on a variant of proposal 163.
18276 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
18277 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
18278 but never per-conn write limits.
18279 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
18280 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
18281 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
18282 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
18284 o Major features (controllers):
18285 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
18286 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
18287 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
18288 contributions to the network.
18289 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
18290 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
18291 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
18293 o Major features (directory authorities):
18294 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
18295 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
18296 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
18298 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
18299 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
18300 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
18301 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
18302 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
18303 download consensus + microdescriptors".
18304 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
18305 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
18306 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
18307 hash algorithm in the future.
18308 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
18309 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
18310 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
18312 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
18313 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
18314 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
18315 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
18316 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
18317 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
18318 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
18319 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
18320 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
18321 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
18322 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
18323 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
18324 connections to directory servers.
18325 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
18326 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
18327 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
18328 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
18329 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
18330 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
18331 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
18332 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
18333 information, or fetch directory information.
18334 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
18335 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
18336 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
18337 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
18338 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
18340 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
18341 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
18342 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
18343 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
18344 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
18345 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
18346 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
18347 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
18348 the network changes.
18349 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
18350 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
18352 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
18353 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
18354 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
18355 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
18356 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
18357 unless you really want your Tor to break.
18358 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
18359 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
18360 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
18361 - When StrictNodes is 1:
18362 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
18363 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
18364 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
18365 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
18366 reachability self-tests.
18367 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
18368 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
18369 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
18370 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
18371 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
18373 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
18374 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18375 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
18377 o Major features (misc):
18378 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
18379 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
18380 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
18381 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
18382 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
18383 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
18384 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
18385 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
18386 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
18387 part of ticket 3076.
18388 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
18389 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
18390 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
18392 o Code security improvements:
18393 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
18394 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
18395 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
18396 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
18397 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
18398 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
18399 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
18400 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
18401 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
18402 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
18403 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
18404 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
18405 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
18406 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
18407 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
18408 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
18409 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
18410 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
18411 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
18412 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
18413 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
18414 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
18415 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
18416 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
18417 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
18418 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
18419 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
18420 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
18422 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
18423 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
18424 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
18425 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
18426 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
18427 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
18428 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
18429 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
18430 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
18431 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
18432 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
18433 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
18434 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
18436 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
18437 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
18438 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
18440 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
18441 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
18443 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18444 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
18445 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
18446 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18447 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18448 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18449 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
18450 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
18451 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
18452 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
18453 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
18454 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
18455 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
18456 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
18457 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
18458 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18459 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
18461 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
18462 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
18463 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
18465 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
18466 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
18467 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
18468 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
18469 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
18470 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
18471 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
18472 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
18473 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
18474 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
18475 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
18476 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
18477 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
18478 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
18479 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
18480 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
18481 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
18482 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
18483 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18485 o Privacy fixes (clients):
18486 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
18487 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
18488 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
18489 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
18490 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
18491 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18492 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
18493 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
18494 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
18496 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
18497 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
18498 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
18499 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
18500 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
18501 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
18502 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
18503 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
18504 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
18505 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
18507 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
18508 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18509 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18510 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18511 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
18512 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
18513 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18514 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
18515 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
18516 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
18517 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
18518 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
18519 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
18521 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
18522 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
18523 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
18524 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
18525 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
18526 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
18527 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
18528 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
18529 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
18530 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18532 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
18533 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
18534 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
18535 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
18536 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
18537 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
18538 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
18540 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
18541 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
18542 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
18543 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
18544 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
18545 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
18546 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
18547 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
18548 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
18549 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
18550 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
18551 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
18552 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
18553 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
18554 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
18556 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18557 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
18558 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
18559 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
18560 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
18561 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
18562 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
18564 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
18565 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
18566 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
18567 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
18568 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
18569 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
18570 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
18571 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
18573 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
18574 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
18575 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
18576 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
18577 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
18578 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
18579 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
18580 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
18581 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
18582 the longest-lived bug prize.
18583 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
18584 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
18585 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
18586 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
18587 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
18588 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
18589 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
18590 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
18591 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
18592 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
18594 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
18595 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
18596 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
18597 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
18598 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
18599 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
18602 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18603 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
18604 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
18605 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
18606 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
18607 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
18608 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
18609 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
18610 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
18611 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
18612 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
18613 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18614 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
18615 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
18616 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
18617 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
18618 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
18619 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
18620 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
18621 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
18622 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
18623 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
18624 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
18625 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
18626 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
18627 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
18629 o Major bugfixes (misc):
18630 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
18631 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
18632 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18633 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
18634 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
18635 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
18636 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
18637 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
18639 o Minor features (relays):
18640 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
18641 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
18642 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
18643 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
18644 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
18645 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
18646 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
18647 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
18649 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
18650 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
18651 Resolves ticket 3252.
18652 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
18653 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
18655 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
18656 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
18657 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
18658 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
18659 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
18661 o Minor features (network statistics):
18662 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
18663 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
18664 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
18665 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
18666 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
18667 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
18668 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
18669 measure download times.
18670 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
18671 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
18673 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
18674 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
18675 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
18676 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
18678 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
18679 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
18680 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
18682 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
18683 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
18684 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
18685 Implements ticket 2432.
18686 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
18687 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
18688 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
18689 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
18690 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
18691 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
18692 Implements enhancement 1790.
18693 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
18694 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
18696 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
18697 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
18698 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
18699 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
18700 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
18701 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
18702 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
18704 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18706 o Minor features (clients):
18707 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
18708 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
18709 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
18710 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
18712 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
18713 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
18714 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
18715 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
18716 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
18717 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
18718 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
18719 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
18721 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
18722 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
18723 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
18724 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
18725 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
18726 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
18727 SSL handshake issues.
18729 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18730 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
18731 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
18732 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
18733 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
18734 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
18735 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
18736 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
18737 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
18738 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
18739 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
18740 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
18741 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
18742 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
18743 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
18744 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
18745 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
18746 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
18747 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
18748 hour of their uptime.
18749 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
18750 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
18751 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
18752 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
18754 o Minor features (hidden services):
18755 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
18756 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
18757 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
18758 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
18759 Required by fix for bug 3000.
18760 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
18761 by fix for bug 3000.
18762 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
18763 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
18764 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
18765 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
18766 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
18768 o Minor features (controller interface):
18769 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
18770 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
18771 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
18772 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
18773 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
18774 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
18775 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
18776 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
18777 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
18778 over our stored history.
18779 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
18780 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
18781 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
18783 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
18784 to the circuit build timeout.
18785 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
18786 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
18787 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
18789 o Minor features (controller protocol):
18790 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
18791 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
18792 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
18794 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
18795 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
18796 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
18797 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
18798 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
18799 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
18800 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
18801 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
18802 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
18803 arguments we do not recognize.
18805 o Minor features (more useful logging):
18806 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
18807 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
18808 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
18809 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
18810 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
18811 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
18812 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
18813 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
18814 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
18815 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
18816 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
18817 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
18818 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
18819 got suppressed since the last warning.
18820 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
18821 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
18822 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
18823 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
18824 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
18825 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
18826 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
18828 o Minor features (log domains):
18829 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
18830 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
18831 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
18833 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
18834 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
18836 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
18837 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
18838 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
18840 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
18841 during the TLS handshake.
18843 o Minor features (build process):
18844 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
18845 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
18846 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
18848 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
18849 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
18850 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
18852 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
18853 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
18854 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
18855 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
18856 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
18857 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
18859 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
18860 source files Tor was built with.
18861 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
18862 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
18863 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
18864 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
18865 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
18866 speeds up the build considerably.
18868 o Minor features (options / torrc):
18869 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
18870 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
18871 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
18872 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
18873 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
18874 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
18875 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
18876 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
18877 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
18878 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
18879 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
18880 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
18881 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
18882 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
18883 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
18884 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
18885 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
18886 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
18887 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
18888 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
18889 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
18890 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
18891 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
18892 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
18893 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
18894 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
18895 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
18897 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
18898 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
18899 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
18902 o Minor features (unit tests):
18903 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
18904 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
18905 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
18906 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
18907 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
18908 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
18910 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
18911 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
18914 o Minor features (misc):
18915 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
18916 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
18917 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
18918 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
18920 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
18921 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
18922 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
18923 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
18924 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
18926 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
18927 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
18928 open() without checking it.
18929 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
18930 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
18931 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
18932 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
18934 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18935 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
18936 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
18937 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
18938 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
18939 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
18940 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
18941 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
18942 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
18943 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
18944 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
18945 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
18946 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
18947 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
18948 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
18949 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
18950 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
18951 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
18952 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
18953 based on the time during which we were active and not in
18954 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
18955 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
18956 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
18957 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
18958 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18959 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
18960 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
18961 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
18963 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
18964 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
18965 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
18966 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
18968 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18969 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
18970 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
18971 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
18972 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
18974 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
18975 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
18976 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18977 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
18978 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
18979 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
18980 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
18981 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
18982 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
18983 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
18984 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
18985 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
18986 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
18988 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
18989 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
18990 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
18991 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
18992 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
18993 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
18994 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
18995 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
18996 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
18997 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
18998 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
18999 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19000 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
19001 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
19002 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
19003 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
19004 two-hop circuits are actually created.
19005 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
19006 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19007 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
19008 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
19010 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
19011 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
19012 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
19013 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
19014 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
19015 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
19016 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
19017 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
19018 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
19020 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
19021 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
19022 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
19023 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
19024 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
19025 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
19026 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
19027 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
19028 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
19029 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
19030 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
19031 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
19032 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
19035 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19036 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
19037 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
19038 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
19039 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19040 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
19041 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
19042 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
19043 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
19044 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
19045 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
19047 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19048 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19050 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
19051 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
19052 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
19053 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
19054 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19055 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
19056 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
19057 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
19059 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
19060 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
19061 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
19062 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19063 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
19064 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
19065 discovered by katmagic.
19066 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
19067 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
19069 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
19070 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19071 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19072 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19073 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19074 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19075 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19076 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19077 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19079 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
19080 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
19082 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
19083 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
19085 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
19086 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
19088 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
19089 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
19090 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
19091 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19092 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
19093 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
19094 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19095 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
19096 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
19097 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
19098 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
19099 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
19100 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
19101 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
19102 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
19104 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
19105 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
19106 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
19107 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
19108 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
19109 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
19110 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
19111 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
19112 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
19114 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
19115 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
19116 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
19118 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
19119 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
19120 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
19121 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
19123 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
19124 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19125 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19126 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19127 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19128 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
19129 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
19131 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19132 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
19133 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
19134 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19135 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
19136 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
19138 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
19139 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
19140 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
19141 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
19142 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
19143 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
19144 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
19145 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19146 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
19148 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
19149 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
19150 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19151 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
19152 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19153 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
19154 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
19155 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
19156 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
19157 control-spec.txt said they were.
19159 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19160 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
19161 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
19163 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
19164 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19165 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
19166 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
19167 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
19169 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
19170 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
19172 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
19173 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
19174 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
19175 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
19176 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
19177 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
19178 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
19180 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
19181 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
19182 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
19183 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19184 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
19185 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
19186 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
19187 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
19190 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19191 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
19192 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
19193 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
19194 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
19195 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
19196 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
19197 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
19198 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
19199 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
19200 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
19201 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19202 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
19203 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
19204 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
19206 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
19207 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
19208 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
19209 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
19210 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
19211 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19212 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
19214 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
19215 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
19218 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19219 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
19220 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
19221 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19222 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19223 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
19224 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
19225 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
19226 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
19227 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
19228 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
19229 fixes part of bug 3407.
19230 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
19231 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
19232 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
19233 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
19234 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
19235 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
19236 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
19237 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
19238 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
19239 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
19241 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
19242 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
19243 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
19244 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
19245 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
19246 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
19247 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
19248 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19249 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
19250 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
19251 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
19252 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19253 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
19254 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
19255 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
19256 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
19257 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19259 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
19260 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
19261 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
19262 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
19263 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
19264 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
19265 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19266 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
19267 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
19268 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
19269 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
19270 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
19272 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
19273 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
19274 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
19275 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
19276 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
19278 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
19279 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
19280 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
19281 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
19283 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
19284 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
19285 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
19286 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
19287 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
19288 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
19289 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
19290 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
19291 structures and defines in or.h for now.
19292 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
19294 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
19295 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
19296 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
19297 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
19298 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
19299 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
19300 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
19301 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
19303 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
19304 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
19305 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
19307 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
19308 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
19309 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
19310 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
19311 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
19312 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
19313 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
19314 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
19315 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
19316 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
19318 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
19320 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
19321 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
19322 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
19323 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
19324 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
19325 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
19326 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
19327 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
19328 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
19329 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
19331 o Documentation changes:
19332 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
19333 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
19335 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
19336 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
19337 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
19338 what should go in a patch.
19339 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
19341 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
19342 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
19343 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
19344 projects directory in svn.
19346 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
19347 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
19348 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
19349 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
19350 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
19351 hidden service usage.
19352 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
19353 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
19354 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
19355 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
19356 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
19359 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
19360 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
19361 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
19362 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
19363 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
19366 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
19367 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
19368 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
19369 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
19370 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
19371 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
19372 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
19373 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
19374 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
19375 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
19376 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
19377 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
19378 via application-level web tricks.
19379 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
19380 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
19381 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
19382 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
19383 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
19384 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
19385 send a body too). Since only server versions before
19386 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
19387 keep the workaround in place.
19388 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
19389 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
19390 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
19391 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
19392 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
19393 want to do it differently.
19394 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
19395 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
19396 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
19399 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
19400 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
19401 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
19402 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
19403 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
19404 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
19407 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
19408 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
19409 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
19410 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
19411 the rest of bug 1074.
19412 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
19413 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19414 Found by "piebeer".
19415 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
19416 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
19417 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
19418 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
19419 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
19420 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
19421 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19424 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
19426 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19429 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
19430 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
19431 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
19432 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
19433 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
19434 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
19435 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
19436 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
19437 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
19438 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
19439 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19441 o Packaging changes:
19442 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
19443 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
19444 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
19445 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
19446 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
19447 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
19450 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
19451 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
19452 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
19453 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
19454 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
19456 o Major bugfixes (security):
19457 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
19458 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
19459 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
19461 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
19462 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
19463 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
19464 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
19465 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
19466 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
19467 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
19468 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
19470 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19471 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
19472 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
19473 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
19474 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
19475 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
19476 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
19477 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
19478 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
19479 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
19480 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
19481 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
19482 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
19483 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
19486 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19487 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
19488 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
19489 bug reported by doorss.
19490 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
19491 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
19492 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19493 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
19494 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
19496 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
19497 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
19498 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
19499 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
19500 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
19503 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19504 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
19507 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
19508 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
19509 Automake 1.7 or later.
19510 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
19511 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
19512 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
19513 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
19516 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
19517 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
19518 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
19519 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
19523 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
19524 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
19525 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
19526 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
19528 o Directory authority changes:
19529 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19532 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19535 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
19536 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
19537 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
19538 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
19539 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
19542 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
19543 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
19544 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
19545 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
19546 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19547 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
19548 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
19549 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
19550 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
19551 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19552 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
19553 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19554 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
19555 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
19556 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
19557 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
19558 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
19559 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
19560 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
19561 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
19562 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
19563 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
19564 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
19567 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
19568 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
19569 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
19570 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
19572 o New directory authorities:
19573 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
19577 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
19578 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
19579 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
19581 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
19582 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
19583 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
19584 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
19585 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
19586 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
19588 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
19589 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
19590 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
19593 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
19594 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
19595 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
19596 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
19597 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
19598 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
19599 Patch from mingw-san.
19602 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
19603 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
19604 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
19605 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
19606 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
19607 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
19610 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
19611 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
19612 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
19613 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
19614 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
19616 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
19617 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
19620 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
19621 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
19622 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
19623 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
19624 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
19625 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
19626 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
19627 their directory fetches over TLS).
19628 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
19629 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
19630 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
19631 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
19632 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
19633 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
19634 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
19635 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
19638 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
19639 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
19643 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
19644 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19645 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
19646 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
19647 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
19648 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
19649 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19652 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
19653 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
19654 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
19655 several minor potential security bugs.
19658 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
19659 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
19660 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
19661 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
19662 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
19663 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
19664 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
19667 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
19668 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
19670 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
19671 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
19672 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
19673 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
19676 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
19677 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
19681 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
19682 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
19683 customized patches to run/build.
19686 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
19687 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
19688 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
19691 o Major bugfixes (performance):
19692 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
19693 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
19694 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
19695 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
19696 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
19697 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
19698 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
19701 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
19702 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
19703 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
19704 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
19705 libraries in a security patch.
19706 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
19707 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
19708 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
19709 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
19713 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
19714 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
19717 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
19718 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
19719 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
19720 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
19721 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
19724 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
19725 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
19726 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
19727 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
19728 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
19730 o Directory authority changes:
19731 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
19735 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
19736 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
19737 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19740 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
19741 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
19742 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
19743 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
19744 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
19747 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
19748 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
19749 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
19750 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
19751 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
19752 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
19753 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
19756 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
19757 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
19758 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19759 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
19760 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
19761 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
19763 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
19764 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
19767 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
19768 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
19769 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
19770 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
19772 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
19773 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
19775 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
19776 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
19777 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
19778 in the Vidalia Settings window.
19781 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
19782 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
19783 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
19784 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
19785 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
19787 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
19788 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
19790 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
19791 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
19792 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
19795 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
19796 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
19797 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
19799 o New directory authorities:
19800 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
19802 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
19805 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
19806 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
19808 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
19809 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
19810 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19811 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
19812 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
19813 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
19814 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19815 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
19816 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
19817 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
19818 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
19819 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
19820 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
19821 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
19822 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
19823 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
19824 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
19826 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
19827 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
19828 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
19830 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
19831 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
19835 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
19836 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
19837 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
19838 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
19839 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
19842 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
19843 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
19847 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
19848 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
19849 part of patch provided by "optimist".
19852 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
19853 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
19854 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
19855 and confuse fewer users.
19858 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
19859 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
19860 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
19861 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
19862 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
19863 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
19864 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
19867 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
19868 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
19869 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
19870 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
19871 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
19872 other features and bug fixes.
19874 o Major features (clients):
19875 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
19876 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
19877 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
19878 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
19880 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
19881 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
19882 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
19883 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
19884 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
19885 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
19886 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
19887 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
19888 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
19889 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
19891 o Major features (relays):
19892 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
19893 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
19894 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
19895 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
19896 data. Found by Jacob.
19897 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
19898 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
19899 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
19900 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
19902 o Major features (hidden services):
19903 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
19904 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
19905 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
19906 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
19907 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
19908 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
19909 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
19910 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
19911 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
19912 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
19913 lookups more reliable.
19915 o Major features (path selection):
19916 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
19917 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
19918 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
19919 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
19920 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
19922 o Major features (misc):
19923 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
19924 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
19926 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
19927 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
19928 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
19929 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
19930 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
19931 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
19933 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
19934 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
19935 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
19936 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
19938 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
19941 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
19942 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
19943 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
19944 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
19945 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
19946 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
19947 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
19948 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
19949 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
19950 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
19951 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
19952 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
19953 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
19954 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
19955 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
19956 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
19957 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
19958 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
19959 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
19960 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
19961 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19962 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
19963 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
19964 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
19965 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
19966 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
19967 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
19968 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
19969 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
19970 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
19971 Implements proposal 148.
19973 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19974 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
19975 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
19976 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
19977 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
19978 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
19980 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
19981 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
19982 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
19983 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
19984 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
19985 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19986 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
19987 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
19988 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
19990 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
19991 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
19992 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
19993 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
19995 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
19996 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
19997 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
19998 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
19999 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
20000 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
20001 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
20002 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
20003 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20005 o Major bugfixes (clients):
20006 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
20007 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
20008 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
20009 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
20010 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
20011 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
20012 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
20013 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
20014 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
20015 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
20016 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
20017 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
20018 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
20019 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
20020 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
20023 o Major bugfixes (relays):
20024 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
20025 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
20026 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
20027 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
20028 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
20029 patch by Sebastian.
20030 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
20031 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
20032 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
20033 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
20034 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
20035 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
20036 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
20037 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
20038 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
20039 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
20042 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20043 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
20044 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
20045 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
20046 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
20047 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
20049 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
20050 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
20051 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
20052 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
20053 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
20054 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
20055 on a typical directory cache.
20056 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
20057 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
20058 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
20059 and may reduce fragmentation.
20061 o New/changed config options:
20062 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
20063 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
20064 Suggested by Lucky Green.
20065 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
20066 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
20067 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
20068 locked down these days.
20069 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
20070 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
20071 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
20072 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
20073 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
20074 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
20075 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
20076 output to messages of warning and error severity.
20077 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
20078 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
20079 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
20080 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
20081 directory requests we should expect to see.
20082 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
20083 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
20084 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
20085 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
20086 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
20087 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
20088 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
20090 o Minor features (relays):
20091 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
20092 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
20093 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
20094 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
20095 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
20097 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
20098 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
20099 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
20100 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
20101 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
20102 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
20103 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
20104 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
20105 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
20106 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
20107 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
20108 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
20109 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
20111 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20112 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
20113 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
20114 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
20115 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
20116 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
20117 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
20118 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
20119 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
20120 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
20121 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
20123 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
20124 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
20125 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
20126 fingerprints with or without space.
20128 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
20129 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
20130 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
20131 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
20132 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
20133 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
20134 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
20135 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
20136 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
20138 o Minor features (bridges):
20139 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
20140 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
20142 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
20143 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
20146 o Minor features (hidden services):
20147 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
20148 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
20149 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
20150 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
20151 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
20152 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
20153 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
20154 faster after restart.
20155 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
20156 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
20158 o Minor features (build and packaging):
20159 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
20161 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
20162 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
20164 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
20165 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
20166 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
20167 entirely. Patch from coderman.
20168 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
20169 are built without support for deprecated functions.
20170 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
20171 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
20172 system to do it for us.
20173 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
20174 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
20175 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
20176 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
20177 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
20178 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
20179 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
20180 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
20181 the letter of C99's alias rules.
20182 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
20183 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
20184 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
20185 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
20186 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
20187 with log.h on Android.
20188 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
20189 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
20191 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
20192 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
20193 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
20194 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
20196 o Minor features (controllers):
20197 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
20198 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
20199 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
20200 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
20201 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
20202 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
20203 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
20204 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
20205 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
20206 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
20208 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
20209 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
20210 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
20211 been fetched and validated.
20212 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
20213 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
20215 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
20217 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
20218 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
20219 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
20220 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
20221 partway through and wants to catch up.
20222 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
20224 o Minor features (tools):
20225 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
20226 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
20227 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
20228 people find host:port too confusing.
20229 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
20230 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
20232 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
20233 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
20234 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20235 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
20236 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
20237 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
20238 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
20239 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
20240 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
20242 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
20243 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
20244 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
20245 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
20246 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
20248 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
20249 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
20250 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
20252 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
20253 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20254 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
20255 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
20256 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
20257 have already been marked for close.
20258 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
20259 memory performance during directory parsing.
20261 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20262 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
20263 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
20264 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
20265 done that for a long time.
20266 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
20267 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
20268 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
20269 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
20270 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
20271 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
20272 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
20273 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
20274 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20275 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
20276 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
20277 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
20278 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
20279 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
20280 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
20281 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
20282 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
20283 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
20284 because of a pending download.
20285 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
20286 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
20287 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
20288 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
20289 bug 820, reported by seeess.
20291 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20292 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
20293 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
20294 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
20295 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
20296 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
20297 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
20298 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
20299 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
20301 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20302 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
20304 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
20305 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
20306 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20307 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
20308 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
20309 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
20310 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
20311 of 0. Suggested by lark.
20312 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
20313 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
20314 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20315 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
20316 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
20318 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
20319 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
20320 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
20322 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
20323 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
20325 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
20326 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
20327 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
20328 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
20329 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
20330 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
20331 rest, and don't automatically fail.
20332 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
20333 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
20334 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
20335 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
20336 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
20337 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20339 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20340 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
20341 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
20342 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
20343 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
20344 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
20345 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
20347 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
20348 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20350 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20351 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
20352 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
20353 Workaround for bug 1024.
20354 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
20355 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
20356 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
20357 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
20358 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
20359 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
20360 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
20361 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
20364 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
20365 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
20368 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
20369 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
20370 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
20371 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
20372 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
20373 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
20374 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
20376 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
20377 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
20378 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
20379 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
20380 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
20381 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
20382 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
20383 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
20386 o Deprecated and removed features:
20387 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
20388 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
20389 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
20391 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
20393 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
20394 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
20395 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
20396 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
20397 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
20398 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
20399 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
20400 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
20401 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
20402 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
20403 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
20404 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
20405 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
20406 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
20409 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20410 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
20411 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
20412 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
20413 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
20415 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
20416 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
20417 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
20418 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
20419 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
20420 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
20421 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
20422 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
20423 actual mistakes we're making here.
20424 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
20425 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
20426 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
20427 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
20428 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
20429 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
20430 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
20431 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
20432 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
20433 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
20434 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
20435 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
20436 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
20437 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
20438 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
20441 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
20443 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
20444 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
20445 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
20446 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
20447 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
20450 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
20451 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
20452 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
20453 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
20454 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
20455 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
20456 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
20457 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
20458 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
20459 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
20462 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
20463 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
20464 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
20465 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
20466 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
20467 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
20468 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
20469 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
20472 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
20473 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
20474 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
20475 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
20476 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
20478 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
20479 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
20480 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
20481 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20484 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
20485 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20486 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
20487 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
20488 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
20489 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
20490 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
20491 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
20494 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
20495 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
20496 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
20497 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
20500 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
20501 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
20502 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
20503 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
20505 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
20506 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
20507 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
20510 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
20511 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
20514 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
20515 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
20516 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
20517 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
20518 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
20519 reported by "wood".
20520 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
20521 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
20522 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
20523 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
20524 identify a connection.
20525 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
20526 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
20527 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
20528 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
20529 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
20530 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
20531 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20532 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
20533 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
20534 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
20536 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
20537 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
20538 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
20539 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
20540 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
20541 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
20542 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
20545 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
20546 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
20548 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
20549 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
20550 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
20551 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
20552 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
20553 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
20554 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20555 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
20557 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
20558 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
20559 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
20560 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
20561 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
20562 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
20563 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
20564 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
20565 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
20566 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
20567 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
20568 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
20569 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
20570 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
20571 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
20572 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
20573 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
20574 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
20575 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
20576 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
20577 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
20578 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
20579 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
20580 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
20581 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
20582 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
20583 840. Patch from rovv.
20584 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
20585 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
20586 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
20588 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
20589 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
20590 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
20591 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
20592 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
20593 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
20594 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
20596 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20597 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
20598 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
20601 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
20602 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
20604 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
20605 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
20606 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
20607 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
20608 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
20609 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
20610 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
20611 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
20612 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
20614 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
20616 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
20617 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
20621 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
20622 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
20623 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
20624 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
20625 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
20626 variety of other issues.
20629 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
20630 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
20631 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
20632 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
20633 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
20634 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
20635 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
20636 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
20637 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
20638 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
20639 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
20640 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
20643 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
20644 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
20646 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20647 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
20648 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
20649 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
20650 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
20651 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
20652 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20653 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
20654 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
20655 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
20656 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
20657 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
20658 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
20659 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
20660 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
20664 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
20665 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
20666 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
20667 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
20668 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
20669 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
20670 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
20671 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
20672 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
20673 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
20674 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
20675 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
20676 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
20677 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
20678 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
20679 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
20680 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
20681 list. It has been gone for many months.
20682 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
20683 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
20684 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
20687 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20688 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
20689 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
20692 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
20693 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
20694 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
20695 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
20698 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
20699 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
20700 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
20701 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
20702 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
20703 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
20705 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
20706 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
20707 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
20708 pointed out by rovv.
20711 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
20712 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20713 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
20714 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20715 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
20716 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
20717 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
20718 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
20719 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
20720 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20721 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
20722 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
20723 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
20724 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20725 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
20726 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
20727 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
20728 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
20729 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
20730 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
20731 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
20734 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
20735 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
20736 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
20737 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
20738 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
20739 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
20740 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
20742 o New v3 directory design:
20743 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
20744 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
20745 network status document rather than each publishing their own
20746 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
20747 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
20748 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
20749 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
20751 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
20752 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
20753 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
20754 dannenberg (run by CCC).
20755 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
20756 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
20757 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
20758 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
20759 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
20760 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
20761 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
20762 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
20763 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
20764 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
20766 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
20767 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
20768 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
20769 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
20770 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
20771 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
20772 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
20773 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
20774 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
20775 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
20776 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
20777 certain censored countries by default again.
20778 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
20779 Tor's x509 certificates.
20781 o Implement bridge relays:
20782 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
20783 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
20784 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
20785 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
20786 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
20787 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
20788 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
20789 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
20790 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
20791 rather than "v2,v3".
20792 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
20793 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
20794 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
20795 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
20796 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
20797 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
20798 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
20799 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
20800 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
20801 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
20802 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
20804 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
20805 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
20806 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
20807 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
20808 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
20809 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
20810 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
20811 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
20812 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
20813 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
20814 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
20815 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
20816 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
20817 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
20818 bridges are functioning.
20819 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
20820 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
20821 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
20822 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
20823 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
20824 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
20825 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
20826 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
20827 knows that password. Unset by default.
20828 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
20829 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
20830 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
20831 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
20832 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
20833 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
20834 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
20835 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
20836 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
20837 and bridges@torproject.org.
20839 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
20840 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
20841 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
20842 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
20843 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
20844 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
20845 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
20846 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
20847 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
20848 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
20849 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
20850 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
20851 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
20852 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
20853 longer a completely silly thing to do.
20855 o Major features (relay usability):
20856 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
20857 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
20858 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
20859 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
20860 proposal 111 for details.
20861 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
20862 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
20863 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
20864 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
20866 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
20867 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
20868 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
20870 o Major features (directory authorities):
20871 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
20872 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
20873 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
20874 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
20875 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
20876 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
20877 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
20878 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
20879 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
20880 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
20881 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
20882 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
20883 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
20885 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
20886 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
20887 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
20888 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
20889 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
20890 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
20891 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
20892 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
20893 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
20894 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
20895 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
20896 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
20897 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
20898 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
20899 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
20900 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
20901 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
20902 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
20903 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
20904 general, controller, or bridge.
20906 o Major features (other):
20907 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
20908 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
20909 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
20910 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
20911 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
20912 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
20913 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
20914 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
20915 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
20916 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
20917 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
20918 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
20919 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
20920 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
20923 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
20924 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
20925 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
20927 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
20928 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
20929 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
20930 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
20931 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
20932 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
20933 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
20934 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
20935 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
20936 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
20937 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
20939 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
20940 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
20942 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
20943 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
20944 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
20945 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
20947 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
20948 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
20949 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
20950 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
20951 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
20953 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
20954 address maps to an internal address space.
20955 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
20956 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
20957 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
20958 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
20959 complements proposal 107.
20960 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
20961 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
20962 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
20963 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
20964 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
20965 reported by taranis and lodger.
20966 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
20967 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
20968 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
20969 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
20970 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
20971 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
20972 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
20973 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
20974 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
20975 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
20976 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
20977 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
20978 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
20980 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
20981 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
20983 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
20984 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
20985 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
20986 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
20987 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
20988 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
20989 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
20991 o Major bugfixes (other):
20992 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
20993 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
20994 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
20996 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
20997 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
20998 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
20999 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
21000 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
21001 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
21002 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
21003 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
21004 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
21005 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
21006 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
21007 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
21008 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
21009 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
21010 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
21011 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
21012 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
21013 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
21014 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
21016 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
21017 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
21018 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
21019 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
21020 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
21021 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
21022 eat all of our bandwidth.
21023 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
21024 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
21025 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
21026 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
21027 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
21028 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
21029 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
21030 bug 688, reported by mfr.
21031 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
21032 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
21033 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
21034 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
21036 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
21037 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
21038 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
21039 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
21040 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
21041 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
21042 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
21043 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
21044 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
21045 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
21046 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
21047 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
21049 o Performance improvements (memory):
21050 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
21051 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
21052 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
21053 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
21054 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
21055 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
21056 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
21057 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
21058 memory fragmentation.
21059 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
21060 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
21061 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
21062 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
21063 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
21065 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
21066 of them were actually distinct.
21067 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
21069 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
21070 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
21071 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
21072 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
21073 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
21074 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
21075 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
21076 performance-intensive.
21077 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
21078 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
21079 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
21080 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
21081 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
21084 o Performance improvements (socket management):
21085 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
21086 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
21087 our allocated connection limit.
21088 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
21089 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
21090 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
21091 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
21092 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
21094 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
21095 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
21097 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
21098 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
21099 is interested in a given message.
21100 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
21101 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
21102 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
21103 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
21104 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
21106 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
21107 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
21108 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
21110 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
21111 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
21112 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
21113 they are the same).
21114 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
21115 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
21116 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
21117 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
21120 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
21121 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
21122 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
21123 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
21124 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
21125 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
21126 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
21128 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
21129 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
21130 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
21131 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
21132 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
21133 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
21134 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
21135 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
21136 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
21137 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
21138 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
21139 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
21140 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
21143 o Changed config option behavior (features):
21144 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
21145 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
21146 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
21147 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
21148 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
21149 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
21150 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
21151 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
21152 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
21153 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
21154 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
21155 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
21156 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
21157 and are reaching it.
21158 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
21159 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
21160 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
21161 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
21163 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
21164 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
21165 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
21166 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
21167 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
21168 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
21169 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
21170 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
21171 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
21173 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
21174 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
21175 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
21176 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
21177 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
21178 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
21179 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
21180 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
21182 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
21183 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
21185 o New config options:
21186 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
21187 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
21188 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
21189 running a test network on a single host.
21190 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
21191 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
21192 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
21193 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
21194 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
21195 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
21196 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
21197 the approved-routers file.
21198 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
21199 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
21200 v2 directory information.
21202 o Minor features (other):
21203 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
21204 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
21205 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
21206 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
21207 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
21208 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
21210 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
21211 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
21212 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
21213 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
21214 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
21215 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
21216 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
21218 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
21219 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
21220 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
21222 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
21223 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
21224 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
21225 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
21226 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
21228 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
21229 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
21230 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
21231 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
21232 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
21233 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
21234 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
21236 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
21237 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
21238 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
21239 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
21240 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
21241 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
21242 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
21243 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
21244 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
21247 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21248 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
21249 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
21251 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
21252 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
21253 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
21254 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
21255 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
21256 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
21258 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
21259 bandwidthburst values.
21260 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
21261 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
21262 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
21263 to mark all our entry points down.
21264 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
21265 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
21266 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
21267 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
21268 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
21270 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
21271 more often than they are allowed to appear.
21272 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
21273 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
21274 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
21275 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
21276 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
21277 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
21278 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
21280 o Controller features:
21281 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
21282 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
21283 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
21284 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
21285 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
21286 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
21288 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
21289 multiple controller passwords.
21290 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
21291 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
21292 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
21293 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
21295 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
21296 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
21297 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
21298 cookie authentication file, and config option
21299 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
21300 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
21301 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
21302 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
21304 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
21305 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
21306 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
21307 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
21308 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21309 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
21310 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
21312 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
21313 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
21315 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
21316 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
21317 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
21318 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
21319 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
21320 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
21321 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
21322 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
21323 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
21324 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
21325 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
21326 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
21327 report the value as a "minimum skew."
21329 o Controller bugfixes:
21330 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
21331 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
21332 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
21333 processes can't run us out of memory.
21334 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
21335 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
21336 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
21338 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
21339 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
21340 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
21341 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
21342 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
21343 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
21344 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
21345 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
21346 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
21347 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
21348 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
21349 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
21350 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
21351 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
21352 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
21354 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
21355 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
21357 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
21358 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
21359 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
21360 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
21361 WARN-severity events.
21363 o Portability / building / compiling:
21364 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
21365 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
21366 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
21367 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
21368 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
21369 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
21370 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
21371 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
21372 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
21373 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
21374 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
21375 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
21376 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
21378 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
21379 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
21380 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
21381 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
21382 Use this version consistently in log messages.
21383 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
21384 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
21385 partial results on small file reads.
21386 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
21387 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
21388 a directory. Fix from lodger.
21389 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
21390 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
21391 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
21393 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
21394 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
21395 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
21396 logging for the unit tests.
21397 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
21398 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
21400 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
21401 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
21403 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
21404 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
21405 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
21406 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
21409 o Logging improvements:
21410 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
21411 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
21412 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
21413 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
21414 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
21415 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
21416 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
21418 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
21419 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
21420 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
21421 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
21422 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
21423 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
21424 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
21425 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
21426 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
21427 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
21428 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
21429 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
21430 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
21431 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
21432 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
21433 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
21434 Good in combination with --hash-password.
21435 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
21436 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
21438 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
21439 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
21440 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
21441 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
21443 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
21444 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
21445 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
21446 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
21447 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
21449 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
21450 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
21451 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
21452 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
21453 makes the log messages nicer.
21454 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
21455 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
21457 o Contributed scripts and tools:
21458 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
21459 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
21461 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
21462 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
21463 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
21464 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
21465 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
21466 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
21467 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
21468 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
21469 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
21470 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
21472 o Newly deprecated features:
21473 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
21474 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
21475 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
21476 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
21478 o Removed features:
21479 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
21480 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
21481 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
21482 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
21483 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
21485 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
21486 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
21487 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
21488 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
21489 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
21490 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
21491 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
21492 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
21494 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
21495 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
21496 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
21497 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
21498 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
21499 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
21501 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
21502 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
21503 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
21504 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
21505 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
21506 patch from Karsten Loesing.
21507 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
21508 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
21509 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
21510 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
21511 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
21512 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
21513 code), this assumption no longer holds.
21514 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
21518 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
21519 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
21520 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
21521 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
21524 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
21525 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
21526 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
21527 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
21528 on network address.
21531 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
21532 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
21533 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
21534 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
21535 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
21536 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
21537 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
21538 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
21539 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
21540 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
21541 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
21542 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
21545 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
21546 rebuild our server descriptor.
21547 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
21548 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
21549 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
21550 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
21551 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
21552 nonstandard integer types.
21553 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
21554 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
21555 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
21556 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
21557 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
21559 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
21560 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
21561 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
21562 when they receive them.
21563 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
21564 This includes some 64-bit systems.
21565 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
21566 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
21567 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
21568 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
21569 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
21570 router_get_by_hexdigest().
21571 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
21572 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
21576 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
21577 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
21578 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
21579 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
21580 lists for a few hours each day.
21582 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21583 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
21584 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
21585 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
21586 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
21587 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21588 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
21589 rend_process_relay_cell().
21591 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21592 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
21593 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
21594 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
21595 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
21596 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
21597 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
21598 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
21600 o Major bugfixes (other):
21601 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
21602 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
21603 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
21604 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
21605 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
21606 circuit cannibalization).
21607 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
21608 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
21609 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
21610 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
21611 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
21612 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
21615 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
21616 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
21618 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
21619 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
21620 absent. Resolves bug 467.
21621 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
21622 a way to trigger this remotely.)
21623 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
21624 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
21625 were reporting the dir port.)
21626 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
21627 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
21628 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
21629 the future. Fixes bug 434.
21630 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
21632 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
21633 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
21634 the onion key from getting rotated.
21635 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
21636 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
21637 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
21638 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
21639 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
21640 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
21641 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
21644 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
21645 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
21646 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
21647 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
21648 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
21651 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
21652 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
21655 o Major bugfixes (security):
21656 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
21657 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
21658 become more of a headache than it's worth.
21660 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
21661 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
21662 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
21664 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
21665 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
21666 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
21667 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
21668 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
21669 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
21671 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
21672 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
21673 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
21674 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
21675 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
21677 o Minor features (controller):
21678 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
21679 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
21680 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
21681 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
21683 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
21684 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
21685 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
21686 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
21687 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
21688 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
21689 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
21690 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
21692 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21693 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
21694 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
21695 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
21696 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
21697 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
21698 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
21699 if we ran off the end of the list.
21700 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
21701 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
21702 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
21703 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
21704 every time we change any piece of our config.
21705 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
21706 encourage people using them to stop.
21707 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
21709 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
21710 servers to choose a circuit.
21711 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
21712 unparseable piece of it.
21715 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
21716 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
21717 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
21718 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
21719 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
21720 TorK, etc. Or worse.
21722 o Major security fixes:
21723 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
21724 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
21727 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
21728 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
21729 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
21730 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
21732 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
21733 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
21735 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21736 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
21737 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
21738 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
21739 routerlist while inserting a new router.
21740 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
21741 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
21743 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
21744 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
21745 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
21747 o Major bugfixes (security):
21748 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
21750 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
21751 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
21752 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
21753 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
21754 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
21755 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
21756 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
21757 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
21758 guard list unless we need to.
21760 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
21761 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
21762 don't get overused as guards.
21764 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
21765 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
21766 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
21767 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
21768 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
21770 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21771 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
21772 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
21775 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21776 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
21777 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
21778 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
21779 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
21780 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
21781 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
21782 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
21785 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
21786 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
21787 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
21788 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
21790 o Directory authority changes:
21791 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
21792 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
21793 or use hidden services.
21795 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21796 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
21797 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
21798 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
21799 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
21800 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
21801 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
21802 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
21803 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
21806 o Major bugfixes (security):
21807 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
21808 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
21809 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
21811 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
21812 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
21813 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
21814 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
21815 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
21816 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
21817 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
21818 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
21819 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
21820 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
21823 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
21824 purpose=controller.
21825 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
21826 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
21828 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
21829 having a hard time downloading.
21830 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
21831 partial results on small file reads.
21832 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
21833 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
21834 the gaps in the store get very large.
21837 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
21838 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
21840 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
21841 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
21844 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
21845 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
21846 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
21847 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
21848 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
21849 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
21851 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
21852 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
21853 free speech on the Internet.
21855 o Major features, client performance:
21856 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
21857 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
21858 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
21859 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
21860 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
21861 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
21862 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
21863 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
21864 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
21865 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
21866 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
21867 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
21868 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
21869 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
21870 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
21872 o Major features, client functionality:
21873 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
21874 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
21875 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
21876 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
21877 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
21878 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
21879 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
21880 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
21881 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
21882 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
21883 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
21884 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
21885 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
21887 o Major features, servers:
21888 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
21889 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
21890 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
21891 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
21892 authenticated, so use with care.
21893 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
21894 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
21895 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
21897 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
21898 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
21899 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
21900 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
21901 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
21902 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
21904 o Improvements on DNS support:
21905 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
21906 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
21907 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
21908 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
21909 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
21910 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
21911 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
21912 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
21913 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
21914 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
21915 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
21916 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
21917 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
21918 lets you turn it off.
21919 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
21920 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
21921 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
21922 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
21923 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
21924 useful to the network.
21925 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
21926 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
21927 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
21928 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
21929 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
21930 our tests for DNS hijacking.
21932 o Improvements on reachability testing:
21933 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
21934 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
21935 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
21936 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
21937 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
21938 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
21939 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
21940 if their identity keys are as expected.
21941 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
21942 chews through many circuits before giving up.
21943 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
21944 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
21945 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
21946 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
21947 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
21948 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
21949 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
21950 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
21951 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
21952 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
21953 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
21954 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
21956 o Improvements on rate limiting:
21957 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
21958 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
21959 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
21960 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
21961 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
21963 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
21964 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
21965 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
21966 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
21967 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
21968 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
21969 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
21970 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
21972 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
21973 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
21975 o Major features, NT services:
21976 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
21977 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
21978 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
21979 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
21980 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
21981 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
21982 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
21984 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
21985 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
21986 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
21988 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
21989 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
21990 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
21992 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
21993 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
21995 o Directory authority improvements:
21996 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
21998 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
21999 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
22000 too much load to the exit nodes.
22001 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
22002 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
22003 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
22004 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
22005 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
22006 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
22007 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
22008 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
22009 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
22010 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
22011 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
22012 broken. Not used yet.
22013 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
22014 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
22015 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
22016 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
22017 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
22018 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
22019 non-versioning dirservers.
22020 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
22021 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
22022 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
22024 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
22025 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
22026 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
22027 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
22029 o Directory mirrors and clients:
22030 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
22031 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
22032 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
22033 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
22034 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
22035 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
22036 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
22037 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
22038 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
22039 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
22040 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
22041 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
22042 routers for even longer.
22043 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
22044 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
22045 caching HTTP proxies.
22046 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
22047 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
22048 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
22049 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
22051 o Major fixes, crashes:
22052 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
22053 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
22054 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
22055 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
22057 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
22058 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
22059 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
22060 stream is detached.
22061 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
22062 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
22063 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
22064 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
22065 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
22066 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
22067 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
22068 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
22069 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
22070 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
22072 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
22073 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
22074 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
22075 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
22076 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
22077 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
22078 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
22079 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
22080 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
22081 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
22082 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
22083 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
22084 could return an unnamed server instead.
22085 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
22086 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
22087 a more attractive target for compromise.)
22088 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
22089 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
22090 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
22091 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
22093 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
22094 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
22096 o Major fixes, other:
22097 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
22098 uptime in the descriptor.
22099 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
22100 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
22101 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
22102 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
22103 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
22104 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
22105 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
22106 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
22107 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
22108 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
22109 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
22110 our DirPort now, etc.
22111 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
22112 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
22113 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
22115 o New config options or behaviors:
22116 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
22117 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
22118 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
22119 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
22120 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
22121 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
22122 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
22123 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
22124 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
22125 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22126 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
22127 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
22129 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
22130 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
22131 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
22132 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
22133 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
22135 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
22136 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
22137 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
22138 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
22139 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
22140 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
22141 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
22142 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
22143 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
22144 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
22145 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
22146 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
22147 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
22148 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
22149 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
22150 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
22151 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
22152 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
22153 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
22154 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
22155 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
22156 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
22157 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
22158 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
22159 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
22160 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
22161 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
22162 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
22163 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
22164 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
22166 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
22167 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
22168 your ORPort is set.
22171 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
22172 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
22174 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
22175 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
22176 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
22177 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
22179 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
22180 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
22181 whether the config options are bad or good.
22182 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
22183 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
22184 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
22185 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
22186 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
22187 result more than once.
22188 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
22189 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
22190 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
22191 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
22192 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
22193 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
22194 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
22195 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
22196 before we check for libevent.
22197 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
22198 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
22199 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
22200 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
22201 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
22202 recommendation system saner.)
22203 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
22204 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
22205 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
22206 now universal binaries.
22207 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
22208 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
22210 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
22212 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
22213 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
22214 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
22215 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
22216 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
22217 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
22219 o Minor features, controller:
22220 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
22221 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
22222 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
22224 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
22225 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
22226 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
22227 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
22228 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
22229 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
22230 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
22232 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
22233 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
22234 connected or resolved cell.
22235 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
22236 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
22237 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
22238 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
22239 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
22240 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
22241 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
22243 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
22244 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
22245 entry guard status as it changes.
22246 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
22247 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
22248 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
22249 watching for STREAM events.
22250 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
22251 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
22252 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
22253 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
22255 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
22256 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
22257 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
22258 working much like those for circuit events.
22259 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
22260 about the current status of a router.
22261 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
22262 a router's status has changed.
22263 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
22264 can tell which events and features are supported.
22265 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
22266 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
22267 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
22268 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
22269 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
22270 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
22271 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
22272 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
22273 for more information.
22274 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
22275 best guess to the user.
22276 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
22277 descriptor has changed.
22278 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
22279 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
22280 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
22282 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
22283 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
22284 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
22285 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
22286 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
22287 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
22288 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
22289 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
22290 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
22291 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
22292 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
22294 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
22295 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
22297 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
22298 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
22299 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
22301 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
22302 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
22303 the controller from learning about current events.
22304 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
22305 reported by Mike Perry.
22306 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
22307 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
22308 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
22309 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
22310 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
22311 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
22312 long nicknames where appropriate.
22313 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
22314 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
22316 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
22317 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
22318 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
22319 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
22320 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
22322 o Minor features, code performance:
22323 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
22324 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
22325 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
22327 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
22328 some profiles, but not others.)
22329 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
22330 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
22331 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
22332 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
22333 operations, for profiling.
22334 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
22335 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
22336 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
22337 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
22338 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
22339 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
22340 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
22341 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
22343 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
22344 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
22345 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
22346 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
22347 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
22348 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
22349 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
22350 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
22351 family lists conveniently.
22353 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
22354 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
22355 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
22356 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
22357 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
22358 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
22359 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
22360 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
22361 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
22362 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
22363 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
22364 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
22365 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
22366 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
22367 of it), is not therefore "up".
22369 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
22370 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
22371 what version a router is running.
22372 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
22373 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
22374 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
22375 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
22377 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
22378 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
22379 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
22380 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
22381 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
22384 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
22385 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
22386 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
22388 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
22389 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
22391 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
22392 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
22393 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
22394 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
22395 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
22396 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
22397 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
22398 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
22399 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
22400 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
22402 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
22403 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
22404 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
22405 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
22406 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
22407 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
22408 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
22409 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
22410 get one we don't recognize.
22413 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
22414 o Security bugfixes:
22415 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
22416 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
22417 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
22418 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
22422 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
22423 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
22424 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
22427 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
22429 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
22430 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
22431 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
22432 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
22433 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
22434 its circuits on demand.
22435 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
22436 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
22437 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
22438 connections more stable on average.
22439 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
22440 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
22441 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
22443 o Security bugfixes:
22444 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
22445 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
22448 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
22450 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
22451 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
22452 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
22453 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
22454 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
22455 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
22456 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
22457 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
22460 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
22462 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
22463 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
22464 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
22465 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
22466 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
22467 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
22468 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
22469 it can't resolve its hostname.
22470 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
22471 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
22472 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
22475 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
22476 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
22477 "extendcircuit" request.
22478 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
22479 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
22480 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
22481 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
22483 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
22484 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
22485 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
22487 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
22488 methods: these are known to be buggy.
22489 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
22490 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
22491 we don't recognize.
22494 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
22496 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
22497 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
22498 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
22499 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
22500 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
22501 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
22502 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
22503 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
22504 test reachability, so you won't publish.
22507 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
22508 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
22509 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
22510 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
22511 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
22513 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
22514 own server descriptor yet.
22517 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
22519 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
22520 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
22521 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
22522 make sure to test via one of these.
22523 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
22524 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
22525 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
22526 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
22527 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
22529 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
22530 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
22531 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
22534 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
22535 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
22536 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
22537 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
22538 directory authority.
22539 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
22540 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
22541 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
22542 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
22545 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
22546 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
22547 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
22549 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
22550 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
22551 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
22552 current guards when picking a new guard.
22553 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
22554 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
22555 when we had more than one pending.
22556 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
22557 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
22558 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
22559 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
22560 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
22561 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
22562 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
22563 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
22564 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
22565 debug the reachability problems better.
22567 o Log / documentation fixes:
22568 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
22569 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
22570 about protocol violations by others.
22571 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
22572 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
22573 about what happened to our old torrc.
22576 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
22577 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
22578 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
22579 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
22580 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
22581 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
22583 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
22584 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
22585 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
22586 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
22587 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
22588 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
22589 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
22590 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
22591 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
22592 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
22593 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
22594 on malicious huge inputs.
22596 o Security fixes, major:
22597 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
22598 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
22599 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
22600 misreading their logs.
22601 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
22602 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
22603 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
22604 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
22605 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
22606 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
22607 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
22608 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
22609 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
22610 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
22611 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
22612 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
22613 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
22614 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
22616 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
22617 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
22618 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
22619 firewall options forbid.
22620 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
22621 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
22622 can only proxy to certain destinations.
22623 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
22624 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
22625 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
22627 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
22628 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
22629 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
22630 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
22631 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
22632 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
22633 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
22634 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
22635 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
22636 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
22637 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
22638 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
22639 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
22641 o Security fixes, minor:
22642 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
22643 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
22645 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
22646 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
22647 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
22648 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
22649 if we've not heard of a server.
22650 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
22651 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
22652 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
22653 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
22654 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
22655 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
22656 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
22657 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
22658 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
22659 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
22660 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
22661 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
22662 aids some statistical attacks.
22663 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
22664 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
22665 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
22666 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
22667 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
22668 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
22669 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
22670 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
22673 o Packaging improvements:
22674 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
22675 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
22676 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
22677 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
22678 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
22679 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
22681 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
22682 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
22683 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
22684 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
22685 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
22686 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
22688 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
22689 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
22690 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
22692 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
22693 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
22694 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
22695 They are useless now.
22696 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
22697 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
22698 is reachable by you.
22699 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
22702 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
22703 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
22704 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
22705 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
22706 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
22707 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
22708 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
22709 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
22710 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
22711 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
22712 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
22713 and isolating attacks better.
22714 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
22715 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
22716 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
22717 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
22718 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
22719 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
22720 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
22721 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
22722 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
22723 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
22724 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
22726 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
22727 can answer v2 directory requests too.
22728 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
22729 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
22730 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
22731 mirrors still cache and serve it).
22732 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
22733 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
22734 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
22735 for clients and for servers.
22736 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
22737 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
22738 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
22739 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
22740 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
22741 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
22742 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
22743 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
22744 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
22745 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
22746 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
22748 o Other directory improvements:
22749 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
22750 fifth authoritative directory servers.
22751 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
22752 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
22753 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
22754 to hang up on them.
22755 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
22756 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
22757 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
22758 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
22759 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
22760 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
22762 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
22763 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
22764 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
22765 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
22766 connections more reliable.
22767 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
22768 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
22769 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
22770 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
22771 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
22772 we fail to connect).
22773 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
22775 o Controller protocol improvements:
22776 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
22777 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
22778 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
22779 applications without caring how our protocol works.
22780 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
22781 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
22782 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
22783 many bytes we've used in this time period.
22784 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
22785 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
22786 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
22787 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
22788 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
22789 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
22790 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
22791 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
22792 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
22793 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
22794 or "signal reload".
22795 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
22796 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
22797 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
22798 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
22799 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
22800 a router in its role as directory authority.
22801 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
22802 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
22803 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
22804 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
22805 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
22806 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
22807 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
22808 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
22809 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
22810 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
22811 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
22812 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
22813 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
22814 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
22815 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
22816 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
22817 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
22818 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
22820 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
22821 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
22822 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
22823 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
22824 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
22825 just tell them to go read their logs.
22827 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
22828 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
22829 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
22830 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
22831 try to be a bit more fair.
22832 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
22833 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
22834 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
22835 and we're using a default DirPort.
22836 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
22837 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
22838 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
22839 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
22840 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
22841 services faster on the service end.
22842 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
22844 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
22845 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
22846 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
22847 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
22848 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
22849 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
22850 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
22851 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
22852 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
22853 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
22854 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
22855 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
22856 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
22857 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
22858 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
22859 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
22860 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
22861 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
22862 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
22863 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
22864 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
22865 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
22866 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
22867 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
22868 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
22870 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
22871 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
22872 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
22873 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
22874 so we can be backward-compatible.
22875 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
22876 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
22877 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
22878 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
22879 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
22880 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
22881 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
22882 initial descriptor forever.
22883 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
22884 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
22885 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
22886 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
22887 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
22888 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
22889 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
22890 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
22891 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
22892 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
22893 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
22894 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
22895 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
22896 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
22897 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
22898 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
22899 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
22900 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
22901 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
22902 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
22903 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
22904 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
22905 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
22906 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
22907 ports that have changed.
22908 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
22909 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
22910 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
22911 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
22912 connections once a week.
22913 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
22914 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
22915 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
22916 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
22917 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
22918 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
22919 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
22920 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
22921 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
22922 able to discover them.
22923 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
22924 want to make it an NT service.
22925 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
22926 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
22927 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
22928 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
22929 memory leaks better.
22930 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
22931 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
22932 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
22933 statistics are now uint64_t's.
22934 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
22935 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
22936 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
22937 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
22938 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
22939 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
22940 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
22941 default ulimit -n is 1024.
22942 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
22943 and its existence is confusing some users.
22945 o Config option fixes:
22946 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
22947 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
22948 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
22949 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
22950 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
22951 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
22952 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
22953 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
22954 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
22956 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
22957 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
22958 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
22959 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
22960 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
22961 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
22962 it would silently ignore the 6668.
22963 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
22964 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
22965 silently resetting it to its default.
22966 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
22967 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
22968 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
22969 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
22970 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
22971 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
22972 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
22973 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
22974 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
22975 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
22976 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
22977 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
22978 Address config option.
22979 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
22980 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
22982 o Config option features:
22983 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
22984 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
22985 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
22986 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
22987 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
22989 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
22990 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
22991 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
22992 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
22993 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
22994 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
22995 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
22996 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
22997 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
22998 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
22999 in at least some cases.)
23000 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
23001 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
23002 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
23003 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
23004 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
23005 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
23006 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
23007 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
23008 even if we know they're jerks.
23009 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
23010 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
23011 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
23012 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
23013 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
23014 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
23015 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
23016 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
23017 because older Tors do not understand it.
23018 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
23019 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
23020 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
23021 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
23022 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
23023 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
23024 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
23025 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
23026 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
23027 unattached before we fail it?
23028 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
23029 at least this many seconds ago.
23030 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
23031 at least this many seconds ago.
23032 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
23033 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
23035 o Improved and clearer log messages:
23036 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
23037 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
23038 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
23040 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
23041 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
23042 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
23043 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
23044 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
23045 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
23046 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
23047 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
23048 temporarily unreachable.
23049 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
23050 Windows-style errno back.
23051 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
23052 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
23054 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
23055 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
23056 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
23057 exactly for this case.
23058 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
23059 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
23060 don't warn twice about the same name.
23061 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
23063 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
23064 it was self-testing that told us so.
23065 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
23066 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
23067 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
23068 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
23069 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
23070 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
23071 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
23072 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
23073 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
23074 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
23075 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
23076 established a circuit.
23077 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
23078 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
23079 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
23080 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
23081 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
23082 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
23083 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
23084 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
23085 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
23086 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
23087 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
23088 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
23089 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
23090 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
23091 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
23092 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
23093 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
23094 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
23095 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
23096 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
23097 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
23098 testing for reachability.
23099 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
23100 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
23102 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
23105 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
23106 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23107 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
23108 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
23110 o Other important bugfixes:
23111 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
23112 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
23113 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
23114 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
23116 o Backported features:
23117 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
23118 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
23119 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
23120 without getting overloaded.
23121 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
23122 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
23123 503's whenever they feel busy.
23124 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
23125 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
23126 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
23127 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
23128 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
23131 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
23132 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23133 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
23134 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
23135 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
23136 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
23137 too -- so detect and avoid this.
23138 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
23140 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
23141 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
23142 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
23143 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
23144 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
23145 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
23146 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
23147 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
23148 rendezvous circuits.
23149 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
23151 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23152 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
23153 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
23154 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
23155 advertising it because of hibernation.
23156 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
23157 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
23158 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
23159 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
23160 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
23161 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
23162 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
23163 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
23164 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
23165 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
23166 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
23167 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
23168 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
23169 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
23170 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
23173 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
23174 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23175 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
23176 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
23177 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
23178 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
23179 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
23180 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
23181 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
23182 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
23183 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
23184 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
23185 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
23186 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
23187 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
23190 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
23191 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23192 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
23194 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
23195 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
23198 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
23199 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23200 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
23201 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
23202 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
23203 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
23204 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
23206 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
23207 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
23211 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
23212 o New directory servers:
23213 - tor26 has changed IP address.
23215 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23216 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
23217 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
23218 pthreads libraries.
23219 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
23220 claims its dirport is 0.
23221 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
23222 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
23226 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
23227 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
23228 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
23229 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
23230 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
23231 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
23232 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
23233 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
23236 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
23238 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
23239 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
23240 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
23241 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
23242 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
23243 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
23244 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
23245 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
23246 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
23248 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
23249 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
23251 o Assert / crash bugs:
23252 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
23253 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
23254 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
23256 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
23257 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
23258 TLS errors better in other situations too.
23259 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
23260 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
23263 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
23264 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
23265 duplicate ram over time.
23266 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
23267 reentry and threadsafeness.
23268 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
23269 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
23270 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
23272 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
23273 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
23274 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
23275 point at your Tor server.
23276 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
23278 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
23279 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
23282 o Protocol correctness:
23283 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
23284 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
23285 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
23286 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
23287 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
23288 to abandon partially built circuits.
23289 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
23290 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
23291 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
23292 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
23293 descriptors we just dropped.
23294 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
23295 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
23296 and to take errno into account where possible.
23297 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
23298 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
23299 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
23300 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
23302 o Robustness improvements:
23303 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
23304 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
23305 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
23307 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
23308 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
23309 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
23310 that will want high uptime circuits.
23311 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
23312 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
23313 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
23314 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
23315 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
23316 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
23317 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
23318 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
23319 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
23320 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
23321 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
23322 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
23323 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
23324 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
23325 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
23326 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
23327 for google.com" problem.
23328 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
23329 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
23330 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
23331 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
23332 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
23335 o Reachability testing.
23336 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
23337 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
23338 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
23339 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
23340 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
23341 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
23342 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
23343 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
23344 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
23345 already connected to them.
23346 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
23350 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
23351 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
23352 nickname+key are allowed.
23353 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
23354 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
23355 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
23356 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
23357 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
23358 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
23359 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
23360 have quite wrong clocks).
23361 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
23362 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
23363 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
23364 their descriptors are being rejected.
23366 o Efficiency improvements:
23367 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
23368 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
23369 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
23370 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
23371 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
23372 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
23373 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
23374 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
23375 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
23376 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
23378 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
23379 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
23380 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
23381 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
23382 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
23383 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
23384 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
23385 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
23386 of CPU time plus memory.
23387 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
23388 directory every time you regenerate it.
23389 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
23390 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
23391 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
23392 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
23393 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
23394 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
23395 lowercase when you first see them.
23398 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
23399 hidden services better.
23400 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
23401 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
23402 when we try to launch one.
23403 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
23404 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
23405 attempts to build a circuit.
23406 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
23407 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
23408 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
23409 normal web requests.
23412 - More Tor controller support. See
23413 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
23414 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
23415 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
23416 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
23417 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
23418 to make it easier to write controllers.
23419 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
23420 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
23421 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
23422 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
23423 new log event types.
23425 o New config options/defaults:
23426 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
23427 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
23428 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
23429 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
23430 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
23432 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
23434 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
23435 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
23436 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
23437 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
23438 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
23440 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
23441 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
23442 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
23443 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
23444 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
23445 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
23446 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
23447 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
23448 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
23449 required exit node for certain sites.
23450 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
23451 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
23452 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
23453 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
23454 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
23455 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
23456 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
23457 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
23458 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
23460 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
23461 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
23462 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
23463 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
23464 private-IP addresses.
23465 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
23466 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
23467 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
23468 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
23469 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
23470 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
23471 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
23472 is valid without actually launching Tor.
23474 o Logging improvements:
23475 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
23476 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
23477 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
23478 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
23480 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
23481 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
23482 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
23483 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
23484 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
23485 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
23486 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
23487 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
23488 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
23490 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
23492 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
23493 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
23494 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
23495 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
23496 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
23497 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
23499 o New contrib scripts:
23500 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
23501 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
23503 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
23504 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
23505 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
23506 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
23507 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
23508 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
23510 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
23511 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
23512 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
23513 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
23517 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
23518 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
23519 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
23520 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
23521 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
23522 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
23523 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
23525 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
23526 something more reasonable when first installing.
23527 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
23528 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
23529 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
23530 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
23532 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
23533 artificially capped at 500kB.
23534 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
23536 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
23537 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
23538 they could use instead.
23539 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
23540 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
23541 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
23542 the user asks you to.
23545 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
23546 rather than just rejecting it.
23547 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
23548 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
23549 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
23550 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
23551 rather than just "success" or "failure".
23552 - A more sane version numbering system. See
23553 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
23554 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
23555 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
23556 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
23557 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
23558 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
23560 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
23561 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
23562 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
23563 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
23565 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
23566 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
23568 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
23569 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
23570 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
23571 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
23573 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
23574 whether the server is hibernating.
23577 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
23578 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
23579 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
23580 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
23581 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
23585 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
23586 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
23587 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
23588 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
23589 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
23592 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
23593 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
23594 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
23595 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
23596 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
23597 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
23598 busy for more than 100 seconds.
23601 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
23602 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
23603 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
23604 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
23605 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
23606 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
23607 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
23608 creating actual system users.
23609 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
23610 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
23614 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
23615 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
23616 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
23617 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
23618 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
23619 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
23620 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
23621 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
23622 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
23623 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
23624 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
23625 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
23626 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
23627 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
23628 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
23630 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
23631 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
23632 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
23633 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
23634 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
23635 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
23636 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
23637 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
23638 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
23639 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
23640 existing torrc files.
23641 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
23644 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
23645 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
23646 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
23647 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
23648 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
23649 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
23650 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
23651 the win32 SYSTEM account.
23652 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
23653 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
23654 file descriptors available.
23655 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
23656 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
23657 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
23660 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
23661 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
23662 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
23663 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
23665 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
23666 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
23667 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
23668 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
23669 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
23671 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
23672 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
23673 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
23674 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
23675 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
23676 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
23677 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
23678 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
23679 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
23680 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
23681 800kB/s of capacity.
23682 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
23685 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
23686 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
23687 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
23688 need as much processor time.
23689 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
23690 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
23691 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
23692 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
23693 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
23694 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
23695 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
23696 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
23697 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
23698 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
23699 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
23700 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
23702 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
23703 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
23704 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
23705 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
23706 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
23707 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
23708 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
23711 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
23712 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
23713 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
23715 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
23716 style address, then we'd crash.
23717 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
23718 a dirserver is broken.
23719 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
23721 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
23722 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
23723 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
23725 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
23726 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
23727 name out of the warning/assert messages.
23728 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
23729 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
23730 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
23732 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
23733 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
23734 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
23736 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
23738 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
23739 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
23740 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
23741 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
23742 values at once couldn't work.
23743 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
23744 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
23745 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
23746 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
23747 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
23748 they can handle any number of routers.
23749 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
23750 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
23751 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
23752 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
23753 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
23754 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
23755 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
23756 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
23757 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
23760 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
23761 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
23762 - Make hibernation actually work.
23763 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
23764 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
23765 don't use the stream status code.
23768 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
23769 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
23770 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
23771 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
23772 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
23773 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
23774 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
23775 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
23776 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
23777 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
23778 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
23779 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
23782 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
23783 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
23784 win32 socket errors better.
23785 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
23786 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
23787 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
23788 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
23790 - Make unit tests work on win32.
23792 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
23793 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
23794 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
23795 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
23796 right after sending the begin cell.
23797 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
23798 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
23799 exit nodes too. Oops.
23800 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
23801 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
23802 the user would get no response.
23803 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
23804 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
23805 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
23807 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
23808 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
23809 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
23810 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
23811 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
23813 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
23814 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
23815 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
23816 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
23817 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
23818 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
23819 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
23820 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
23821 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
23822 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
23823 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
23825 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
23826 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
23827 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
23828 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
23829 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
23830 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
23831 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
23832 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
23833 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
23834 so we don't see those messages days later.
23835 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
23836 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
23838 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
23839 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
23840 they ran out of file descriptors.
23841 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
23842 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
23843 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
23844 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
23846 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
23847 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
23848 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
23849 the ones we find in directories.)
23850 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
23851 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
23852 if you don't want it open.
23853 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
23854 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
23855 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
23856 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
23857 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
23858 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
23860 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
23861 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
23863 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
23865 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
23866 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
23868 o Features (circuits and streams):
23869 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
23870 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
23871 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
23872 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
23873 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
23874 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
23875 the user knows which one it's talking about.
23876 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
23877 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
23878 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
23879 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
23880 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
23881 from Geoff Goodell.
23882 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
23884 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
23885 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
23886 to fill the last cell completely.
23887 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
23888 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
23890 o Features (bandwidth):
23891 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
23892 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
23893 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
23894 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
23895 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
23896 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
23897 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
23898 your billing cycle starts on.
23899 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
23900 hibernation properties by
23901 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
23902 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
23903 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
23904 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
23905 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
23907 o Features (directories):
23908 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
23909 nickname to its identity key.
23910 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
23911 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
23912 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
23913 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
23914 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
23916 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
23917 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
23919 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
23920 will be able to get a directory.
23921 - Http proxy support
23922 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
23923 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
23924 be routed through this host.
23925 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
23926 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
23927 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
23928 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
23929 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
23930 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
23932 o Features (packages and install):
23933 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
23934 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
23935 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
23936 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
23937 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
23938 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
23939 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
23940 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
23941 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
23942 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
23945 o Features (ui controller):
23946 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
23947 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
23948 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
23949 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
23950 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
23951 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
23952 with the control port.
23953 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
23954 use in authenticating to the control interface.
23955 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
23956 configuration to torrc.
23957 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
23958 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
23959 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
23961 o Features (config and command-line):
23962 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
23963 not on the command line.
23964 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
23966 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
23967 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
23968 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
23969 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
23970 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
23971 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
23972 - New log format in config:
23973 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
23974 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
23975 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
23976 from their dirserver.
23977 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
23979 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
23980 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
23981 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
23982 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
23983 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
23984 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
23985 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
23986 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
23987 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
23988 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
23989 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
23990 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
23991 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
23992 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
23993 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
23994 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
23995 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
23996 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
23997 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
23998 than once per minute.
24000 o Features (other):
24001 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
24002 get back to normal.)
24003 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
24004 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
24005 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
24006 log more informatively.
24007 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
24008 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
24009 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
24010 from each other, to hinder linkability.
24011 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
24012 them act more like real nodes.
24013 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
24014 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
24015 1024) file descriptors.
24016 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
24019 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
24021 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
24022 clients/servers with an open dirport.
24023 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
24024 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
24025 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
24026 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
24027 intermittent connections.
24028 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
24029 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
24031 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
24032 in reporting stats locally.
24033 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
24034 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
24035 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
24038 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
24040 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
24041 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
24042 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
24043 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
24044 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
24045 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
24046 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
24047 list to decide who's running.
24048 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
24049 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
24050 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
24051 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
24052 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
24053 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
24054 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
24055 for pointing out this bug.)
24056 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
24058 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
24059 don't put it into the client dns cache.
24060 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
24061 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
24062 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
24064 o Protocol changes:
24065 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
24066 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
24067 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
24068 hadn't heard of before.
24071 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
24072 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
24073 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
24074 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
24075 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
24076 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
24077 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
24078 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
24079 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
24080 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
24081 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
24082 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
24083 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
24084 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
24085 - Directory caching.
24086 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
24087 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
24088 directory they've pulled down.
24089 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
24090 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
24091 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
24092 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
24093 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
24094 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
24095 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
24097 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
24098 This isn't used yet.
24099 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
24100 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
24101 clients don't use this yet.)
24102 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
24103 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
24104 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
24105 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
24106 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
24107 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
24108 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
24109 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
24110 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
24111 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
24112 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
24113 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
24114 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
24115 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
24116 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
24117 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
24118 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
24119 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
24120 - File and name management:
24121 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
24122 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
24124 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
24125 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
24126 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
24127 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
24128 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
24129 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
24130 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
24132 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
24133 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
24134 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
24136 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
24137 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
24138 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
24139 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
24140 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
24141 - New docs in the tarball:
24143 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
24144 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
24145 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
24146 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
24147 know you might want to get it verified.
24148 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
24149 kazaa, gnutella ports.
24150 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
24151 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
24152 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
24153 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
24154 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
24155 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
24156 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
24158 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
24160 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
24161 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
24163 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
24164 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
24165 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
24168 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
24169 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
24170 ask them to resolve the host "".
24173 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
24174 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
24175 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
24178 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
24179 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
24180 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
24183 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
24184 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
24185 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
24186 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
24188 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
24189 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
24190 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
24192 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
24193 hidden service per 15-minute period.
24194 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
24195 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
24196 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
24197 o Fixes for security bugs:
24198 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
24199 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
24200 a trusted dirserver.
24202 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
24203 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
24204 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
24205 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
24206 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
24207 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
24208 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
24209 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
24210 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
24211 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
24213 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
24214 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
24215 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
24216 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
24217 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
24218 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
24220 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
24223 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
24224 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
24225 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
24226 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
24227 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
24228 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
24229 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
24230 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
24231 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
24232 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
24233 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
24234 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
24235 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
24236 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
24239 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
24240 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
24241 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
24242 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
24245 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
24246 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
24247 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
24248 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
24249 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
24250 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
24251 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
24255 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
24257 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
24258 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
24259 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
24260 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
24261 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
24262 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
24263 if you decrypted them correctly.
24264 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
24265 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
24266 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
24267 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
24268 in-memory directories too.
24269 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
24270 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
24271 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
24272 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
24273 just close the circ.
24274 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
24275 - Better debugging for tls errors
24276 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
24277 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
24279 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
24280 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
24281 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
24282 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
24283 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
24284 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
24285 it tells you about the first error.
24286 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
24287 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
24288 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
24289 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
24290 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
24291 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
24292 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
24293 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
24294 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
24295 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
24297 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
24298 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
24301 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
24302 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
24304 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
24305 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
24306 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
24307 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
24308 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
24309 expect it to have a nickname.
24310 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
24311 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
24312 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
24313 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
24314 the dns farm to do it.
24315 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
24316 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
24318 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
24319 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
24320 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
24321 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
24322 but that aren't warnings
24325 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
24326 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
24330 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
24331 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
24332 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
24333 - include missing header fcntl.h
24334 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
24335 - deal with hardware word alignment
24336 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
24337 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
24338 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
24339 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
24340 by kill -USR1 currently.
24341 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
24342 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
24343 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
24346 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
24347 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
24348 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
24351 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
24353 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
24354 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
24355 - And fix a few endian issues.
24358 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
24360 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
24361 try that circuit again: try a new one.
24362 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
24363 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
24364 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
24365 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
24366 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
24367 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
24369 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
24370 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
24371 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
24373 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
24375 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
24376 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
24377 side isn't reading right then.
24378 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
24379 RecommendedVersions
24380 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
24381 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
24382 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
24385 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
24387 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
24388 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
24391 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
24395 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
24397 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
24398 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
24399 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
24400 connection is finished.
24401 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
24402 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
24403 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
24404 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
24405 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
24406 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
24407 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
24408 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
24409 rather than warn and continue.
24410 - Make --version work
24411 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
24414 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
24416 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
24417 knows it's working.
24418 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
24419 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
24421 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
24422 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
24423 so you can collect coredumps there.
24425 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
24426 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
24427 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
24428 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
24429 dns cache actually gets populated.
24430 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
24431 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
24432 end cell down it first.
24433 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
24434 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
24437 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
24439 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
24440 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
24442 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
24443 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
24444 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
24445 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
24446 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
24447 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
24449 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
24451 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
24452 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
24453 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
24454 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
24455 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
24456 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
24458 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
24459 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
24462 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
24464 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
24465 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
24466 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
24467 tor. It even has a man page.
24468 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
24469 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
24470 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
24471 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
24473 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
24475 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
24478 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
24480 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
24481 it, apt-getters. :)
24482 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
24483 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
24484 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
24485 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
24486 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
24487 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
24488 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
24489 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
24490 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
24491 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
24492 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
24494 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
24495 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
24498 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
24500 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
24501 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
24504 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
24506 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
24507 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
24508 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
24509 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
24510 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
24511 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
24512 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
24513 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
24514 logfile so you know it's working.
24515 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
24516 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
24519 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
24521 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
24522 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
24523 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
24526 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
24528 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
24529 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
24530 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
24533 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
24534 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
24535 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
24537 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
24538 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
24540 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
24541 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
24542 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
24544 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
24545 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
24549 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
24551 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
24552 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
24553 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
24556 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
24557 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
24558 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
24559 - Add port ranges to exit policies
24560 - Add a conservative default exit policy
24561 - Warn if you're running tor as root
24562 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
24563 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
24564 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
24565 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
24567 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
24570 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
24571 o Robustness and bugfixes:
24572 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
24573 really screw things up.
24574 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
24576 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
24577 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
24579 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
24580 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
24581 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
24582 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
24583 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
24584 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
24587 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
24590 - Change default loglevel to warn.
24591 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
24592 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
24594 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
24597 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
24598 o Robustness and bugfixes:
24599 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
24600 - to get ownership/permissions right
24601 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
24602 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
24603 pull down a directory again
24604 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
24605 causing server crashes
24606 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
24607 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
24608 - exit if bind() fails
24609 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
24610 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
24611 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
24612 - fix minor bias in PRNG
24613 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
24616 - Wrote the design document (woo)
24618 o Circuit building and exit policies:
24619 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
24621 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
24622 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
24623 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
24624 exists, rather than failing
24625 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
24626 which AP connections are standing by
24627 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
24628 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
24629 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
24631 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
24632 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
24635 - APPort is now called SocksPort
24636 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
24638 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
24639 hardcoded (for dirservers)
24640 - Reloads config on HUP
24641 - Usage info on -h or --help
24642 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
24644 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
24645 o General stability:
24646 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
24647 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
24648 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
24649 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
24650 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
24651 to take down the network when I approve a new router
24652 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
24655 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
24656 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
24658 o Autoconf improvements:
24659 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
24660 - Make install now works
24661 - create var/lib/tor on make install
24662 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
24663 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
24665 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
24666 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
24667 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
24668 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup