2 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
3 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
4 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
7 o Major bugfixes (security):
8 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
9 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
10 become more of a headache than it's worth.
12 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
14 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
16 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
17 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
18 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
19 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
20 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
21 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
23 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
24 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
27 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
29 o Minor features (controller):
30 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
31 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
32 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
33 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
37 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
38 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
39 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
40 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
41 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
42 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
44 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
45 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
46 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
47 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
48 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
49 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
50 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
51 if we ran off the end of the list.
52 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
53 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
54 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
55 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
56 every time we change any piece of our config.
57 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
58 encourage people using them to stop.
59 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
61 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
62 servers to choose a circuit.
63 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
64 unparseable piece of it.
67 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
68 o Major security fixes:
69 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
70 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
73 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
74 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
75 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
77 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
78 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
79 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
80 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
81 routerlist while inserting a new router.
82 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
83 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
85 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
86 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
87 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
89 o Major bugfixes (security):
90 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
92 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
93 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
94 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
95 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
96 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
97 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
98 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
99 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
100 guard list unless we need to.
102 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
103 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
104 don't get overused as guards.
106 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
107 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
108 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
109 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
110 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
112 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
113 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
114 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
117 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
118 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
119 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
120 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
121 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
122 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
123 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
124 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
127 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
128 o Directory authority changes:
129 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
130 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
131 or use hidden services.
133 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
134 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
135 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
136 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
137 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
138 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
139 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
140 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
141 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
144 o Major bugfixes (security):
145 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
146 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
147 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
149 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
150 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
151 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
152 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
153 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
154 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
155 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
156 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
157 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
158 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
161 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
163 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
164 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
166 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
167 having a hard time downloading.
168 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
169 partial results on small file reads.
170 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
171 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
172 the gaps in the store get very large.
175 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
176 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
178 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
179 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
182 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
184 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
185 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
186 free speech on the Internet.
188 o Major features, client performance:
189 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
190 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
191 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
192 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
193 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
194 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
195 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
196 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
197 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
198 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
199 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
200 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
201 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
202 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
203 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
205 o Major features, client functionality:
206 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
207 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
208 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
209 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
210 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
211 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
212 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
213 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
214 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
215 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
216 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
217 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
218 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
220 o Major features, servers:
221 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
222 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
223 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
224 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
225 authenticated, so use with care.
226 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
227 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
228 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
230 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
231 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
232 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
233 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
234 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
235 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
237 o Improvements on DNS support:
238 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
239 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
240 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
241 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
242 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
243 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
244 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
245 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
246 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
247 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
248 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
249 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
250 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
251 lets you turn it off.
252 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
253 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
254 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
255 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
256 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
257 useful to the network.
258 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
259 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
260 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
261 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
262 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
263 our tests for DNS hijacking.
265 o Improvements on reachability testing:
266 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
267 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
268 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
269 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
270 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
271 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
272 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
273 if their identity keys are as expected.
274 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
275 chews through many circuits before giving up.
276 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
277 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
278 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
279 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
280 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
281 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
282 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
283 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
284 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
285 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
286 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
289 o Improvements on rate limiting:
290 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
291 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
292 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
293 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
294 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
296 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
297 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
298 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
299 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
300 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
301 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
302 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
303 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
305 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
306 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
308 o Major features, NT services:
309 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
310 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
311 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
312 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
313 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
314 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
315 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
317 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
318 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
319 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
321 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
322 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
323 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
325 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
326 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
328 o Directory authority improvements:
329 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
331 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
332 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
333 too much load to the exit nodes.
334 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
335 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
336 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
337 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
338 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
339 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
340 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
341 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
342 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
343 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
344 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
345 broken. Not used yet.
346 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
347 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
348 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
349 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
350 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
351 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
352 non-versioning dirservers.
353 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
354 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
355 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
357 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
358 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
359 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
360 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
362 o Directory mirrors and clients:
363 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
364 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
365 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
366 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
367 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
368 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
369 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
370 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
371 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
372 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
373 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
374 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
375 routers for even longer.
376 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
377 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
378 caching HTTP proxies.
379 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
380 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
381 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
382 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
384 o Major fixes, crashes:
385 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
386 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
387 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
388 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
390 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
391 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
392 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
394 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
395 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
396 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
397 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
398 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
399 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
400 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
401 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
402 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
403 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
405 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
406 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
407 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
408 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
409 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
410 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
411 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
412 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
413 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
414 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
415 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
416 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
417 could return an unnamed server instead.
418 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
419 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
420 a more attractive target for compromise.)
421 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
422 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
423 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
424 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
426 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
427 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
429 o Major fixes, other:
430 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
431 uptime in the descriptor.
432 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
433 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
434 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
435 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
436 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
437 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
438 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
439 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
440 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
441 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
442 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
443 our DirPort now, etc.
444 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
445 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
446 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
448 o New config options or behaviors:
449 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
450 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
451 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
452 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
453 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
454 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
455 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
456 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
457 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
458 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
459 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
460 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
462 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
463 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
464 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
465 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
466 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
468 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
469 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
470 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
471 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
472 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
473 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
474 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
475 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
476 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
477 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
478 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
479 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
480 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
481 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
482 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
483 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
484 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
485 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
486 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
487 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
488 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
489 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
490 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
491 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
492 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
493 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
494 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
495 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
496 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
497 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
499 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
500 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
504 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
505 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
507 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
508 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
509 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
510 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
512 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
513 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
514 whether the config options are bad or good.
515 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
516 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
517 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
518 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
519 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
520 result more than once.
521 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
522 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
523 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
524 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
525 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
526 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
527 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
528 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
529 before we check for libevent.
530 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
531 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
532 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
533 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
534 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
535 recommendation system saner.)
536 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
537 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
538 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
539 now universal binaries.
540 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
541 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
543 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
545 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
546 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
547 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
548 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
549 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
550 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
552 o Minor features, controller:
553 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
554 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
555 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
557 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
558 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
559 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
560 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
561 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
562 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
563 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
565 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
566 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
567 connected or resolved cell.
568 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
569 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
570 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
571 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
572 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
573 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
574 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
576 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
577 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
578 entry guard status as it changes.
579 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
580 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
581 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
582 watching for STREAM events.
583 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
584 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
585 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
586 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
588 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
589 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
590 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
591 working much like those for circuit events.
592 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
593 about the current status of a router.
594 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
595 a router's status has changed.
596 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
597 can tell which events and features are supported.
598 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
599 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
600 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
601 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
602 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
603 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
604 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
605 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
606 for more information.
607 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
608 best guess to the user.
609 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
610 descriptor has changed.
611 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
612 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
613 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
615 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
616 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
617 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
618 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
619 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
620 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
621 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
622 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
623 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
624 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
625 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
627 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
628 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
630 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
631 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
632 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
634 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
635 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
636 the controller from learning about current events.
637 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
638 reported by Mike Perry.
639 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
640 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
641 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
642 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
643 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
644 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
645 long nicknames where appropriate.
646 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
647 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
649 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
650 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
651 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
652 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
653 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
655 o Minor features, code performance:
656 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
657 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
658 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
660 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
661 some profiles, but not others.)
662 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
663 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
664 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
665 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
666 operations, for profiling.
667 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
668 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
669 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
670 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
671 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
672 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
673 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
674 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
676 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
677 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
678 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
679 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
680 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
681 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
682 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
683 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
684 family lists conveniently.
686 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
687 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
688 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
689 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
690 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
691 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
692 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
693 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
694 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
695 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
696 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
697 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
698 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
699 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
700 of it), is not therefore "up".
702 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
703 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
704 what version a router is running.
705 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
706 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
707 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
708 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
710 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
711 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
712 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
713 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
714 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
717 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
718 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
719 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
721 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
722 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
724 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
725 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
726 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
727 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
728 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
729 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
730 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
731 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
732 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
733 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
735 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
736 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
737 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
738 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
739 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
740 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
741 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
742 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
743 get one we don't recognize.
746 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
748 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
749 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
750 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
751 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
755 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
756 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
757 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
760 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
762 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
763 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
764 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
765 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
766 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
767 its circuits on demand.
768 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
769 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
770 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
771 connections more stable on average.
772 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
773 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
774 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
777 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
778 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
781 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
783 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
784 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
785 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
786 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
787 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
788 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
789 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
790 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
793 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
795 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
796 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
797 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
798 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
799 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
800 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
801 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
802 it can't resolve its hostname.
803 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
804 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
805 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
808 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
809 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
810 "extendcircuit" request.
811 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
812 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
813 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
814 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
816 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
817 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
818 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
820 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
821 methods: these are known to be buggy.
822 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
823 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
827 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
829 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
830 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
831 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
832 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
833 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
834 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
835 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
836 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
837 test reachability, so you won't publish.
840 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
841 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
842 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
843 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
844 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
846 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
847 own server descriptor yet.
850 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
852 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
853 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
854 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
855 make sure to test via one of these.
856 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
857 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
858 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
859 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
860 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
862 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
863 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
864 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
867 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
868 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
869 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
870 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
872 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
873 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
874 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
875 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
878 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
879 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
880 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
882 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
883 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
884 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
885 current guards when picking a new guard.
886 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
887 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
888 when we had more than one pending.
889 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
890 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
891 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
892 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
893 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
894 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
895 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
896 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
897 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
898 debug the reachability problems better.
900 o Log / documentation fixes:
901 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
902 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
903 about protocol violations by others.
904 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
905 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
906 about what happened to our old torrc.
909 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
910 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
911 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
912 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
913 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
914 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
916 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
917 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
918 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
919 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
920 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
921 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
922 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
923 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
924 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
925 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
926 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
927 on malicious huge inputs.
929 o Security fixes, major:
930 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
931 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
932 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
933 misreading their logs.
934 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
935 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
936 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
937 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
938 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
939 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
940 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
942 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
943 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
944 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
945 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
946 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
947 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
949 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
950 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
951 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
952 firewall options forbid.
953 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
954 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
955 can only proxy to certain destinations.
956 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
957 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
958 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
960 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
961 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
962 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
963 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
964 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
965 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
966 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
967 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
968 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
969 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
970 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
971 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
972 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
974 o Security fixes, minor:
975 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
976 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
978 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
979 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
980 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
981 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
982 if we've not heard of a server.
983 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
984 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
985 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
986 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
987 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
988 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
989 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
990 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
991 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
992 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
993 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
994 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
995 aids some statistical attacks.
996 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
997 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
998 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
999 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
1000 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
1001 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
1002 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
1003 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
1006 o Packaging improvements:
1007 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
1008 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
1009 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
1010 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
1011 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
1012 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
1014 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
1015 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
1016 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
1017 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
1018 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
1019 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
1021 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
1022 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
1023 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
1025 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
1026 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
1027 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
1028 They are useless now.
1029 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
1030 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
1031 is reachable by you.
1032 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
1035 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
1036 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
1037 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
1038 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
1039 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
1040 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
1041 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
1042 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
1043 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
1044 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
1045 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
1046 and isolating attacks better.
1047 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
1048 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
1049 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
1050 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
1051 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
1052 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
1053 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
1054 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
1055 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
1056 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
1057 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
1059 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
1060 can answer v2 directory requests too.
1061 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
1062 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
1063 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
1064 mirrors still cache and serve it).
1065 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
1066 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
1067 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
1068 for clients and for servers.
1069 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
1070 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
1071 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
1072 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
1073 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
1074 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
1075 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
1076 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
1077 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
1078 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
1079 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
1081 o Other directory improvements:
1082 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
1083 fifth authoritative directory servers.
1084 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
1085 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
1086 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
1088 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
1089 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
1090 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
1091 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
1092 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
1093 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
1095 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
1096 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
1097 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
1098 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
1099 connections more reliable.
1100 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
1101 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
1102 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
1103 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
1104 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
1105 we fail to connect).
1106 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
1108 o Controller protocol improvements:
1109 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
1110 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
1111 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
1112 applications without caring how our protocol works.
1113 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
1114 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
1115 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
1116 many bytes we've used in this time period.
1117 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
1118 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
1119 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
1120 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
1121 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
1122 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
1123 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
1124 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
1125 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
1126 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
1128 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
1129 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
1130 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
1131 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
1132 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
1133 a router in its role as directory authority.
1134 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
1135 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
1136 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
1137 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
1138 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
1139 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
1140 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
1141 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
1142 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
1143 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
1144 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
1145 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
1146 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
1147 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
1148 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
1149 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
1150 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
1151 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
1153 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
1154 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
1155 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
1156 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
1157 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
1158 just tell them to go read their logs.
1160 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
1161 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
1162 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
1163 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
1164 try to be a bit more fair.
1165 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
1166 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
1167 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
1168 and we're using a default DirPort.
1169 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
1170 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
1171 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
1172 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
1173 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
1174 services faster on the service end.
1175 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
1177 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
1178 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
1179 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
1180 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
1181 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
1182 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
1183 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
1184 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
1185 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
1186 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
1187 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
1188 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
1189 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
1190 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
1191 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
1192 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
1193 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
1194 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
1195 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
1196 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
1197 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
1198 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
1199 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
1200 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
1201 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
1203 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
1204 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
1205 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
1206 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
1207 so we can be backward-compatible.
1208 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
1209 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
1210 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
1211 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
1212 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
1213 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
1214 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
1215 initial descriptor forever.
1216 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
1217 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
1218 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
1219 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
1220 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
1221 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
1222 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
1223 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
1224 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
1225 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
1226 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
1227 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
1228 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
1229 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
1230 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
1231 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
1232 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
1233 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
1234 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
1235 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
1236 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
1237 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
1238 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
1239 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
1240 ports that have changed.
1241 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
1242 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
1243 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
1244 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
1245 connections once a week.
1246 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
1247 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
1248 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
1249 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
1250 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
1251 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
1252 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
1253 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
1254 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
1255 able to discover them.
1256 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
1257 want to make it an NT service.
1258 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
1259 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
1260 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
1261 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
1262 memory leaks better.
1263 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
1264 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
1265 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
1266 statistics are now uint64_t's.
1267 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
1268 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
1269 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
1270 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
1271 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
1272 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
1273 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
1274 default ulimit -n is 1024.
1275 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
1276 and its existence is confusing some users.
1278 o Config option fixes:
1279 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
1280 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
1281 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
1282 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
1283 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
1284 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
1285 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
1286 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
1287 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
1289 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
1290 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
1291 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
1292 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
1293 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
1294 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
1295 it would silently ignore the 6668.
1296 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
1297 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
1298 silently resetting it to its default.
1299 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
1300 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
1301 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
1302 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
1303 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
1304 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
1305 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
1306 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
1307 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
1308 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
1309 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
1310 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
1311 Address config option.
1312 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
1313 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
1315 o Config option features:
1316 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
1317 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
1318 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
1319 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
1320 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
1322 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
1323 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
1324 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
1325 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
1326 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
1327 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
1328 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
1329 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
1330 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
1331 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
1332 in at least some cases.)
1333 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
1334 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
1335 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
1336 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
1337 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
1338 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
1339 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
1340 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
1341 even if we know they're jerks.
1342 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
1343 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
1344 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
1345 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
1346 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
1347 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
1348 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
1349 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
1350 because older Tors do not understand it.
1351 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
1352 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
1353 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
1354 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
1355 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
1356 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
1357 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
1358 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
1359 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
1360 unattached before we fail it?
1361 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
1362 at least this many seconds ago.
1363 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
1364 at least this many seconds ago.
1365 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
1366 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
1368 o Improved and clearer log messages:
1369 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
1370 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
1371 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
1373 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
1374 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
1375 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
1376 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
1377 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
1378 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
1379 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
1380 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
1381 temporarily unreachable.
1382 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
1383 Windows-style errno back.
1384 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
1385 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
1387 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
1388 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
1389 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
1390 exactly for this case.
1391 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
1392 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
1393 don't warn twice about the same name.
1394 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
1396 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
1397 it was self-testing that told us so.
1398 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
1399 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
1400 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
1401 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
1402 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
1403 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
1404 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
1405 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
1406 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
1407 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
1408 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
1409 established a circuit.
1410 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
1411 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
1412 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
1413 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
1414 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
1415 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
1416 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
1417 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
1418 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
1419 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
1420 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
1421 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
1422 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
1423 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
1424 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
1425 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
1426 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
1427 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
1428 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
1429 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
1430 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
1431 testing for reachability.
1432 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
1433 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
1435 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
1438 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
1439 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1440 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
1441 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
1443 o Other important bugfixes:
1444 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
1445 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
1446 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
1447 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
1449 o Backported features:
1450 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
1451 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
1452 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
1453 without getting overloaded.
1454 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
1455 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
1456 503's whenever they feel busy.
1457 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
1458 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
1459 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
1460 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
1461 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
1464 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
1465 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1466 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
1467 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
1468 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
1469 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
1470 too -- so detect and avoid this.
1471 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
1473 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
1474 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
1475 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
1476 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
1477 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
1478 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
1479 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
1480 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
1481 rendezvous circuits.
1482 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
1484 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1485 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
1486 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
1487 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
1488 advertising it because of hibernation.
1489 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
1490 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
1491 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
1492 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
1493 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
1494 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
1495 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
1496 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
1497 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
1498 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
1499 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
1500 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
1501 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
1502 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
1503 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
1506 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
1507 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1508 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
1509 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
1510 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
1511 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
1512 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
1513 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
1514 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
1515 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
1516 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
1517 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
1518 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
1519 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
1520 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
1523 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
1524 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1525 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
1527 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
1528 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
1531 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
1532 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1533 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
1534 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
1535 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
1536 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
1537 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
1539 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
1540 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
1544 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
1545 o New directory servers:
1546 - tor26 has changed IP address.
1548 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1549 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
1550 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
1552 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
1553 claims its dirport is 0.
1554 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
1555 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
1559 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
1560 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
1561 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
1562 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
1563 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
1564 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
1565 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
1566 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
1569 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
1571 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
1572 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
1573 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
1574 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
1575 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
1576 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
1577 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
1578 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
1579 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
1581 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
1582 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
1584 o Assert / crash bugs:
1585 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
1586 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
1587 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
1589 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
1590 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
1591 TLS errors better in other situations too.
1592 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
1593 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
1596 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
1597 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
1598 duplicate ram over time.
1599 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
1600 reentry and threadsafeness.
1601 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
1602 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
1603 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
1605 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
1606 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
1607 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
1608 point at your Tor server.
1609 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
1611 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
1612 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
1615 o Protocol correctness:
1616 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
1617 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
1618 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
1619 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
1620 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
1621 to abandon partially built circuits.
1622 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
1623 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
1624 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
1625 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
1626 descriptors we just dropped.
1627 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
1628 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
1629 and to take errno into account where possible.
1630 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
1631 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
1632 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
1633 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
1635 o Robustness improvements:
1636 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
1637 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
1638 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
1640 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
1641 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
1642 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
1643 that will want high uptime circuits.
1644 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
1645 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
1646 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
1647 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
1648 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
1649 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
1650 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
1651 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
1652 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
1653 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
1654 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
1655 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
1656 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
1657 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
1658 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
1659 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
1660 for google.com" problem.
1661 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
1662 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
1663 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
1664 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
1665 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
1668 o Reachability testing.
1669 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
1670 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
1671 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
1672 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
1673 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
1674 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
1675 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
1676 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
1677 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
1678 already connected to them.
1679 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
1683 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
1684 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
1685 nickname+key are allowed.
1686 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
1687 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
1688 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
1689 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
1690 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
1691 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
1692 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
1693 have quite wrong clocks).
1694 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
1695 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
1696 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
1697 their descriptors are being rejected.
1699 o Efficiency improvements:
1700 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
1701 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
1702 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
1703 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
1704 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
1705 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
1706 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
1707 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
1708 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
1709 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
1711 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
1712 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
1713 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
1714 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
1715 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
1716 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
1717 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
1718 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
1719 of CPU time plus memory.
1720 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
1721 directory every time you regenerate it.
1722 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
1723 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
1724 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
1725 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
1726 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
1727 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
1728 lowercase when you first see them.
1731 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
1732 hidden services better.
1733 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
1734 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
1735 when we try to launch one.
1736 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
1737 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
1738 attempts to build a circuit.
1739 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
1740 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
1741 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
1742 normal web requests.
1745 - More Tor controller support. See
1746 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
1747 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
1748 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
1749 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
1750 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
1751 to make it easier to write controllers.
1752 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
1753 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
1754 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
1755 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
1756 new log event types.
1758 o New config options/defaults:
1759 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
1760 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
1761 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
1762 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
1763 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
1765 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
1767 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
1768 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
1769 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
1770 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
1771 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
1773 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
1774 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
1775 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
1776 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
1777 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
1778 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
1779 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
1780 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
1781 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
1782 required exit node for certain sites.
1783 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
1784 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
1785 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
1786 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
1787 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
1788 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
1789 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
1790 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
1791 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
1793 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
1794 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
1795 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
1796 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
1797 private-IP addresses.
1798 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
1799 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
1800 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
1801 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
1802 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
1803 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
1804 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
1805 is valid without actually launching Tor.
1807 o Logging improvements:
1808 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
1809 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
1810 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
1811 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
1813 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
1814 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
1815 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
1816 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
1817 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
1818 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
1819 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
1820 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
1821 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
1823 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
1825 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
1826 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
1827 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
1828 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
1829 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
1830 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
1832 o New contrib scripts:
1833 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
1834 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
1836 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
1837 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
1838 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
1839 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
1840 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
1841 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
1843 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
1844 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
1845 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
1846 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
1850 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
1851 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
1852 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
1853 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
1854 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
1855 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
1856 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
1858 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
1859 something more reasonable when first installing.
1860 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
1861 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
1862 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
1863 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
1865 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
1866 artificially capped at 500kB.
1867 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
1869 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
1870 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
1871 they could use instead.
1872 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
1873 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
1874 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
1875 the user asks you to.
1878 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
1879 rather than just rejecting it.
1880 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
1881 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
1882 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
1883 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
1884 rather than just "success" or "failure".
1885 - A more sane version numbering system. See
1886 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
1887 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
1888 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
1889 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
1890 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
1891 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
1893 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
1894 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
1895 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
1896 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
1898 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
1899 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
1901 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
1902 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
1903 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
1904 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
1906 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
1907 whether the server is hibernating.
1910 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
1911 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
1912 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
1913 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
1914 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
1918 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
1919 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1920 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
1921 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
1922 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
1925 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
1926 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1927 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
1928 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
1929 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
1930 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
1931 busy for more than 100 seconds.
1934 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
1935 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1936 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
1937 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
1938 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
1939 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
1940 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
1941 creating actual system users.
1942 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
1943 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
1947 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
1948 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
1949 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
1950 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
1951 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
1952 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
1953 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
1954 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
1955 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
1956 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
1957 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
1958 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
1959 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
1960 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
1961 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
1963 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
1964 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
1965 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
1966 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
1967 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
1968 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
1969 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
1970 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
1971 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
1972 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
1973 existing torrc files.
1974 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
1977 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
1978 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1979 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
1980 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
1981 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
1982 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
1983 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
1984 the win32 SYSTEM account.
1985 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
1986 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
1987 file descriptors available.
1988 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
1989 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
1990 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
1993 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
1994 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1995 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
1996 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
1998 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
1999 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
2000 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
2001 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
2002 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
2004 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
2005 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
2006 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
2007 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
2008 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
2009 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
2010 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
2011 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
2012 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
2013 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
2014 800kB/s of capacity.
2015 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
2018 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
2019 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
2020 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
2021 need as much processor time.
2022 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
2023 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
2024 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
2025 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
2026 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
2027 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
2028 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
2029 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
2030 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
2031 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
2032 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
2033 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
2035 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
2036 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
2037 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
2038 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
2039 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
2040 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
2041 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
2044 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
2045 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
2046 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
2048 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
2049 style address, then we'd crash.
2050 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
2051 a dirserver is broken.
2052 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
2054 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
2055 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
2056 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
2058 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
2059 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
2060 name out of the warning/assert messages.
2061 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
2062 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
2063 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
2065 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
2066 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
2067 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
2069 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
2071 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
2072 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
2073 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
2074 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
2075 values at once couldn't work.
2076 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
2077 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
2078 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
2079 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
2080 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
2081 they can handle any number of routers.
2082 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
2083 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
2084 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
2085 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
2086 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
2087 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
2088 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
2089 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
2090 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
2093 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
2094 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
2095 - Make hibernation actually work.
2096 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
2097 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
2098 don't use the stream status code.
2101 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
2102 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
2103 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
2104 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
2105 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
2106 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
2107 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
2108 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
2109 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
2110 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
2111 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
2112 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
2115 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
2116 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
2117 win32 socket errors better.
2118 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
2119 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
2120 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
2121 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
2123 - Make unit tests work on win32.
2125 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
2126 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
2127 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
2128 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
2129 right after sending the begin cell.
2130 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
2131 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
2132 exit nodes too. Oops.
2133 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
2134 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
2135 the user would get no response.
2136 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
2137 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
2138 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
2140 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
2141 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
2142 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
2143 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
2144 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
2146 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
2147 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
2148 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
2149 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
2150 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
2151 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
2152 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
2153 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
2154 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
2155 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
2156 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
2158 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
2159 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
2160 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
2161 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
2162 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
2163 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
2164 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
2165 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
2166 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
2167 so we don't see those messages days later.
2168 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
2169 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
2171 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
2172 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
2173 they ran out of file descriptors.
2174 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
2175 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
2176 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
2177 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
2179 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
2180 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
2181 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
2182 the ones we find in directories.)
2183 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
2184 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
2185 if you don't want it open.
2186 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
2187 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
2188 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
2189 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
2190 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
2191 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
2193 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
2194 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
2196 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
2198 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
2199 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
2201 o Features (circuits and streams):
2202 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
2203 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
2204 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
2205 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
2206 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
2207 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
2208 the user knows which one it's talking about.
2209 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
2210 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
2211 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
2212 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
2213 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
2215 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
2217 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
2218 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
2219 to fill the last cell completely.
2220 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
2221 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
2223 o Features (bandwidth):
2224 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
2225 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
2226 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
2227 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
2228 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
2229 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
2230 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
2231 your billing cycle starts on.
2232 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
2233 hibernation properties by
2234 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
2235 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
2236 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
2237 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
2238 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
2240 o Features (directories):
2241 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
2242 nickname to its identity key.
2243 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
2244 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
2245 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
2246 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
2247 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
2249 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
2250 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
2252 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
2253 will be able to get a directory.
2254 - Http proxy support
2255 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
2256 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
2257 be routed through this host.
2258 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
2259 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
2260 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
2261 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
2262 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
2263 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
2265 o Features (packages and install):
2266 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
2267 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
2268 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
2269 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
2270 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
2271 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
2272 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
2273 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
2274 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
2275 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
2278 o Features (ui controller):
2279 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
2280 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
2281 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
2282 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
2283 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
2284 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
2285 with the control port.
2286 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
2287 use in authenticating to the control interface.
2288 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
2289 configuration to torrc.
2290 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
2291 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
2292 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
2294 o Features (config and command-line):
2295 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
2296 not on the command line.
2297 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
2299 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
2300 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
2301 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
2302 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
2303 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
2304 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
2305 - New log format in config:
2306 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
2307 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
2308 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
2309 from their dirserver.
2310 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
2312 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
2313 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
2314 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
2315 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
2316 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
2317 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
2318 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
2319 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
2320 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
2321 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
2322 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
2323 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
2324 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
2325 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
2326 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
2327 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
2328 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
2329 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
2330 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
2331 than once per minute.
2334 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
2335 get back to normal.)
2336 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
2337 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
2338 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
2339 log more informatively.
2340 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
2341 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
2342 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
2343 from each other, to hinder linkability.
2344 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
2345 them act more like real nodes.
2346 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
2347 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
2348 1024) file descriptors.
2349 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
2352 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
2354 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
2355 clients/servers with an open dirport.
2356 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
2357 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
2358 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
2359 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
2360 intermittent connections.
2361 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
2362 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
2364 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
2365 in reporting stats locally.
2366 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
2367 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
2368 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
2371 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
2373 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
2374 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
2375 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
2376 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
2377 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
2378 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
2379 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
2380 list to decide who's running.
2381 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
2382 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
2383 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
2384 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
2385 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
2386 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
2387 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
2388 for pointing out this bug.)
2389 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
2391 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
2392 don't put it into the client dns cache.
2393 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
2394 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
2395 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
2398 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
2399 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
2400 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
2401 hadn't heard of before.
2404 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
2405 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
2406 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
2407 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
2408 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
2409 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
2410 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
2411 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
2412 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
2413 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
2414 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
2415 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
2416 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
2417 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
2418 - Directory caching.
2419 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
2420 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
2421 directory they've pulled down.
2422 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
2423 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
2424 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
2425 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
2426 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
2427 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
2428 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
2430 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
2431 This isn't used yet.
2432 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
2433 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
2434 clients don't use this yet.)
2435 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
2436 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
2437 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
2438 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
2439 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
2440 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
2441 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
2442 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
2443 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
2444 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
2445 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
2446 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
2447 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
2448 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
2449 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
2450 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
2451 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
2452 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
2453 - File and name management:
2454 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
2455 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
2457 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
2458 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
2459 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
2460 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
2461 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
2462 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
2463 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
2465 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
2466 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
2467 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
2469 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
2470 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
2471 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
2472 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
2473 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
2474 - New docs in the tarball:
2476 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
2477 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
2478 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
2479 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
2480 know you might want to get it verified.
2481 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
2482 kazaa, gnutella ports.
2483 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
2484 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
2485 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
2486 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
2487 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
2488 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
2489 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
2491 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
2493 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
2494 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
2496 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
2497 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
2498 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
2501 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
2502 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
2503 ask them to resolve the host "".
2506 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
2507 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
2508 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
2511 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
2512 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
2513 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
2516 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
2517 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
2518 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
2519 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
2521 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
2522 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
2523 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
2525 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
2526 hidden service per 15-minute period.
2527 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
2528 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
2529 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
2530 o Fixes for security bugs:
2531 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
2532 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
2533 a trusted dirserver.
2535 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
2536 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
2537 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
2538 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
2539 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
2540 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
2541 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
2542 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
2543 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
2544 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
2546 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
2547 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
2548 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
2549 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
2550 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
2551 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
2553 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
2556 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
2557 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
2558 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
2559 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
2560 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
2561 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
2562 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
2563 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
2564 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
2565 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
2566 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
2567 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
2568 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
2569 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
2572 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
2573 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
2574 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
2575 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
2578 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
2579 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
2580 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
2581 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
2582 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
2583 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
2584 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
2588 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
2590 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
2591 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
2592 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
2593 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
2594 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
2595 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
2596 if you decrypted them correctly.
2597 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
2598 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
2599 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
2600 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
2601 in-memory directories too.
2602 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
2603 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
2604 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
2605 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
2606 just close the circ.
2607 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
2608 - Better debugging for tls errors
2609 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
2610 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
2612 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
2613 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
2614 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
2615 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
2616 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
2617 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
2618 it tells you about the first error.
2619 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
2620 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
2621 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
2622 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
2623 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
2624 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
2625 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
2626 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
2627 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
2628 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
2630 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
2631 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
2634 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
2635 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
2637 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
2638 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
2639 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
2640 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
2641 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
2642 expect it to have a nickname.
2643 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
2644 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
2645 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
2646 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
2647 the dns farm to do it.
2648 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
2649 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
2651 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
2652 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
2653 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
2654 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
2655 but that aren't warnings
2658 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
2659 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
2663 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
2664 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
2665 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
2666 - include missing header fcntl.h
2667 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
2668 - deal with hardware word alignment
2669 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
2670 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
2671 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
2672 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
2673 by kill -USR1 currently.
2674 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
2675 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
2676 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
2679 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
2680 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
2681 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
2684 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
2686 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
2687 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
2688 - And fix a few endian issues.
2691 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
2693 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
2694 try that circuit again: try a new one.
2695 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
2696 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
2697 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
2698 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
2699 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
2700 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
2702 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
2703 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
2704 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
2706 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
2708 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
2709 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
2710 side isn't reading right then.
2711 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
2713 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
2714 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
2715 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
2718 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
2720 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
2721 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
2724 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
2728 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
2730 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
2731 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
2732 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
2733 connection is finished.
2734 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
2735 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
2736 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
2737 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
2738 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
2739 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
2740 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
2741 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
2742 rather than warn and continue.
2743 - Make --version work
2744 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
2747 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
2749 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
2751 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
2752 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
2754 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
2755 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
2756 so you can collect coredumps there.
2758 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
2759 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
2760 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
2761 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
2762 dns cache actually gets populated.
2763 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
2764 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
2765 end cell down it first.
2766 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
2767 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
2770 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
2772 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
2773 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
2775 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
2776 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
2777 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
2778 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
2779 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
2780 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
2782 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
2784 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
2785 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
2786 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
2787 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
2788 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
2789 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
2791 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
2792 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
2795 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
2797 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
2798 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
2799 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
2800 tor. It even has a man page.
2801 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
2802 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
2803 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
2804 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
2806 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
2808 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
2811 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
2813 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
2815 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
2816 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
2817 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
2818 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
2819 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
2820 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
2821 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
2822 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
2823 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
2824 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
2825 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
2827 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
2828 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
2831 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
2833 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
2834 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
2837 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
2839 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
2840 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
2841 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
2842 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
2843 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
2844 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
2845 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
2846 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
2847 logfile so you know it's working.
2848 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
2849 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
2852 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
2854 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
2855 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
2856 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
2859 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
2861 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
2862 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
2863 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
2866 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
2867 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
2868 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
2870 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
2871 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
2873 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
2874 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
2875 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
2877 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
2878 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
2882 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
2884 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
2885 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
2886 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
2889 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
2890 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
2891 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
2892 - Add port ranges to exit policies
2893 - Add a conservative default exit policy
2894 - Warn if you're running tor as root
2895 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
2896 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
2897 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
2898 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
2900 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
2903 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
2904 o Robustness and bugfixes:
2905 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
2906 really screw things up.
2907 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
2909 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
2910 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
2912 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
2913 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
2914 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
2915 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
2916 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
2917 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
2920 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
2923 - Change default loglevel to warn.
2924 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
2925 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
2927 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
2930 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
2931 o Robustness and bugfixes:
2932 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
2933 - to get ownership/permissions right
2934 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
2935 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
2936 pull down a directory again
2937 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
2938 causing server crashes
2939 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
2940 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
2941 - exit if bind() fails
2942 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
2943 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
2944 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
2945 - fix minor bias in PRNG
2946 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
2949 - Wrote the design document (woo)
2951 o Circuit building and exit policies:
2952 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
2954 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
2955 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
2956 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
2957 exists, rather than failing
2958 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
2959 which AP connections are standing by
2960 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
2961 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
2962 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
2964 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
2965 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
2968 - APPort is now called SocksPort
2969 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
2971 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
2972 hardcoded (for dirservers)
2973 - Reloads config on HUP
2974 - Usage info on -h or --help
2975 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
2977 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
2978 o General stability:
2979 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
2980 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
2981 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
2982 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
2983 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
2984 to take down the network when I approve a new router
2985 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
2988 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
2989 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
2991 o Autoconf improvements:
2992 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
2993 - Make install now works
2994 - create var/lib/tor on make install
2995 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
2996 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
2998 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
2999 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
3000 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
3001 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup