1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
6 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
7 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
8 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
9 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
10 intended for a different relay.
12 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
13 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
14 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
15 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
16 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
17 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
18 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
20 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
21 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
22 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
23 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
24 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
25 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
26 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
27 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
28 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
29 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
30 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
32 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
33 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
34 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
35 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
38 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
39 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
40 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
42 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
43 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
44 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
46 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
47 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
48 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
49 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
50 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
51 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
53 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
54 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
55 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
57 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
58 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
59 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
62 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
63 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
64 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
65 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
68 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
69 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
70 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
71 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
72 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
74 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
75 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
76 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
79 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
80 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
81 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
82 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
84 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
85 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
86 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
87 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
88 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
89 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
90 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
92 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
93 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
94 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
95 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
96 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
99 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
100 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
101 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
102 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
103 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
104 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
106 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
107 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
108 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
109 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
112 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
113 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
114 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
115 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
117 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
118 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
119 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
121 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
122 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
123 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
125 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
126 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
127 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
128 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
129 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
131 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
132 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
133 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
135 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
136 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
137 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
138 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
139 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
140 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
141 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
143 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
144 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
145 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
148 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
149 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
150 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
151 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
152 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
153 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
156 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
157 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
158 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
159 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
161 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
162 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
163 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
164 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
166 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
167 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
168 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
170 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
171 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
174 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
175 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
176 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
177 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
178 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
179 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
180 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
183 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
184 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
185 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
186 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
187 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
189 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
190 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
191 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
192 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
194 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
195 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
196 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
197 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
198 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
199 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
200 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
202 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
203 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
204 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
205 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
206 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
209 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
210 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
211 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
212 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
213 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
214 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
216 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
217 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
218 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
219 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
221 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
222 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
223 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
224 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
227 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
228 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
229 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
230 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
232 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
233 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
234 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
236 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
237 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
238 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
240 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
241 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
242 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
243 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
244 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
246 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
247 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
248 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
250 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
251 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
252 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
253 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
254 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
255 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
256 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
258 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
259 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
260 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
263 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
264 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
265 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
266 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
267 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
268 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
271 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
272 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
273 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
274 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
276 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
277 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
278 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
279 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
281 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
282 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
283 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
285 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
286 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
289 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
290 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
291 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
292 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
293 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
294 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
295 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
297 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
298 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
299 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
300 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
301 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
303 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
304 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
305 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
307 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
308 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
310 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
311 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
312 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
313 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
314 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
315 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
316 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
317 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
318 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
319 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
321 o Major features (fallback directory list):
322 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
323 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
324 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
326 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
327 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
328 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
329 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
330 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
331 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
332 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
334 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
336 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
337 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
338 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
339 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
341 o Major features (v3 onion services):
342 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
343 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
346 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
347 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
348 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
349 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
350 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
353 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
354 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
355 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
356 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
357 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
358 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
360 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
361 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
362 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
363 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
364 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
366 o Minor features (security):
367 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
368 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
369 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
370 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
371 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
373 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
374 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
375 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
376 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
377 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
380 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
381 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
382 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
383 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
384 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
385 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
386 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
388 o Minor features (code safety):
389 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
390 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
391 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
392 Resolves issue 33788.
394 o Minor features (continuous integration):
395 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
396 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
397 Resolves ticket 32143.
399 o Minor features (control port):
400 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
401 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
402 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
403 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
404 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
405 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
406 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
408 o Minor features (defense in depth):
409 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
410 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
412 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
413 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
414 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
415 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
416 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
417 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
419 o Minor features (developer tooling):
420 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
421 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
422 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
423 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
424 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
425 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
426 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
428 o Minor features (directory authority):
429 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
430 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
431 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
432 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
433 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
435 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
436 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
437 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
438 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
440 o Minor features (directory):
441 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
442 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
443 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
446 o Minor features (entry guards):
447 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
450 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
451 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
452 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
454 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
455 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
458 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
459 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
460 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
461 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
462 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
463 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
464 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
466 o Minor features (logging):
467 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
468 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
470 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
471 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
472 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
473 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
476 o Minor features (onion service v3):
477 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
478 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
480 o Minor features (python scripts):
481 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
482 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
483 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
484 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
486 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
487 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
488 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
489 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
490 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
491 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
492 up from ticket 33316.
493 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
494 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
495 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
497 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
498 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
499 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
500 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
502 o Minor features (windows):
503 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
504 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
506 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
507 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
508 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
509 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
511 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
512 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
513 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
514 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
515 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
517 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
518 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
519 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
520 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
521 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
522 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
524 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
525 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
526 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
527 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
529 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
530 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
531 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
532 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
533 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
535 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
536 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
537 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
539 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
540 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
541 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
542 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
543 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
544 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
545 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
546 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
547 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
548 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
550 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
551 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
552 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
553 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
554 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
556 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
557 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
558 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
559 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
562 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
563 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
564 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
565 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
566 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
567 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
568 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
570 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
571 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
572 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
574 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
575 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
576 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
578 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
579 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
580 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
582 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
583 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
584 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
587 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
588 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
589 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
592 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
593 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
594 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
595 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
596 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
597 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
598 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
600 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
601 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
602 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
603 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
605 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
606 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
607 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
608 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
609 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
612 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
613 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
614 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
615 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
616 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
617 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
620 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
621 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
622 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
625 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
626 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
627 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
628 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
630 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
631 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
632 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
633 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
634 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
637 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
638 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
639 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
641 o Code simplification and refactoring:
642 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
643 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
644 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
645 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
646 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
647 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
648 isolated in subsystems of their own.
649 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
650 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
651 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
652 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
654 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
655 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
656 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
657 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
659 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
660 code. Closes ticket 33014.
661 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
662 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
665 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
666 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
667 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
668 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
669 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
670 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
673 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
674 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
675 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
676 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
677 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
678 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
679 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
680 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
681 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
682 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
683 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
684 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
685 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
688 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
689 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
690 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
691 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
692 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
693 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
694 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
695 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
697 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
698 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
700 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
701 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
702 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
703 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
704 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
705 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
706 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
707 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
708 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
709 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
710 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
711 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
713 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
714 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
717 o Documentation (manual page):
718 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
719 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
720 Google Season of Docs.
721 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
722 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
723 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
724 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
725 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
726 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
727 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
731 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
732 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
733 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
735 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
736 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
737 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
738 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
739 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
740 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
741 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
744 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
745 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
746 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
747 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
750 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
751 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
752 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
753 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
754 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
755 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
757 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
758 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
759 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
760 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
761 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
762 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
764 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
765 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
766 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
769 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
770 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
771 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
774 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
775 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
776 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
777 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
780 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
781 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
782 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
783 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
784 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
786 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
787 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
788 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
790 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
791 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
792 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
793 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
794 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
797 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
798 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
799 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
800 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
801 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
802 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
804 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
805 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
806 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
807 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
809 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
810 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
811 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
812 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
815 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
816 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
817 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
818 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
819 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
820 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
821 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
822 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
826 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
827 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
828 several that affect usability and portability.
830 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
831 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
832 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
833 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
834 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
835 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
836 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
839 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
840 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
841 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
842 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
845 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
846 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
847 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
848 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
849 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
850 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
852 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
853 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
854 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
855 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
856 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
858 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
859 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
860 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
861 code. Closes ticket 33290.
863 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
864 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
865 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
866 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
867 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
868 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
870 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
871 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
872 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
874 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
875 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
876 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
877 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
880 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
881 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
882 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
883 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
886 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
887 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
888 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
889 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
890 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
891 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
894 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
895 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
896 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
898 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
899 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
900 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
901 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
903 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
904 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
905 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
906 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
907 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
910 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
911 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
912 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
913 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
914 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
915 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
917 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
918 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
919 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
920 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
921 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
923 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
924 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
925 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
926 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
928 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
929 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
930 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
931 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
933 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
934 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
935 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
936 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
939 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
940 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
941 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
942 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
943 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
944 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
945 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
946 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
950 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
951 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
952 some affecting usability.
954 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
955 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
956 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
957 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
958 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
959 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
960 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
963 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
964 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
965 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
966 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
969 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
970 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
971 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
973 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
974 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
975 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
976 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
979 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
980 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
981 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
983 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
984 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
985 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
986 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
988 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
989 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
990 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
991 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
993 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
994 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
995 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
997 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
998 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
999 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1000 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1001 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1003 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1004 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1005 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1007 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1008 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1009 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1010 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1012 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1013 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1017 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1018 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1019 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1020 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1021 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
1022 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
1025 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1026 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1027 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1028 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
1029 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
1031 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
1032 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
1033 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
1036 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
1037 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1039 o New system requirements:
1040 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
1041 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
1042 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
1044 o Major features (build system):
1045 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
1046 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
1047 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
1048 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
1049 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
1051 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
1052 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
1053 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
1054 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
1055 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1057 o Major features (onion services):
1058 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
1059 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
1060 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
1061 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
1062 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
1063 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
1064 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
1066 o Major features (proxy):
1067 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
1068 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
1069 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
1070 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
1071 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
1072 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1074 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
1075 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1076 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1077 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1078 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1079 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1080 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1081 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1082 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1084 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
1085 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1086 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1087 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1088 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1090 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1091 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1092 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1093 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1094 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1096 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
1097 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1098 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1099 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1100 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1101 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1103 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1104 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
1105 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
1106 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1108 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1109 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
1110 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
1111 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
1112 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
1113 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1115 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
1116 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
1117 message. Closes ticket 31371.
1119 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
1120 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1121 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1122 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1123 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1125 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
1126 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
1127 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
1128 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
1130 o Minor features (configuration validation):
1131 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
1132 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
1133 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
1134 Closes ticket 31241.
1136 o Minor features (configuration):
1137 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
1138 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
1140 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
1141 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
1142 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
1143 Implements ticket 32404.
1145 o Minor features (configure, build system):
1146 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
1147 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
1149 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1150 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
1151 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
1152 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1153 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1154 Closes ticket 33075.
1156 o Minor features (controller):
1157 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
1158 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
1159 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
1161 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1162 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1163 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1164 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1166 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1167 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
1168 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
1171 o Minor features (developer tools):
1172 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
1173 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
1174 Closes ticket 32772.
1175 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
1176 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
1177 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
1178 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
1179 target. Closes ticket 31919.
1180 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
1181 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
1182 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
1184 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
1185 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
1186 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
1187 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
1189 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1190 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1191 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1192 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1194 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1195 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1196 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
1197 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1199 o Minor features (Doxygen):
1200 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
1201 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
1202 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
1204 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
1205 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
1206 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
1207 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
1208 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
1209 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
1210 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
1211 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
1213 o Minor features (git scripts):
1214 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
1215 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
1216 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
1217 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
1218 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
1219 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
1220 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
1221 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
1222 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
1223 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
1224 Closes ticket 32216.
1225 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
1226 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
1227 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
1228 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
1230 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
1231 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
1232 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
1233 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
1234 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
1235 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
1237 o Minor features (portability, android):
1238 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
1239 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
1240 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1242 o Minor features (relay modularity):
1243 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
1244 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
1245 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1246 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1247 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
1248 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
1249 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1250 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
1251 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
1253 o Minor features (release tools):
1254 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
1255 Closes ticket 32704.
1257 o Minor features (testing):
1258 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1259 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1260 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1261 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1262 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1263 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
1264 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
1265 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
1266 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
1267 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
1268 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
1270 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
1271 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
1272 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1274 o Minor features (usability):
1275 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
1276 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
1277 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
1279 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
1280 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1281 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1282 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1285 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1286 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1287 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1289 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1290 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
1291 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1293 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
1294 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1295 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1296 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1297 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1298 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1301 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
1302 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
1303 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
1304 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1305 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
1306 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1307 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
1308 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
1309 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
1310 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
1311 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
1312 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
1313 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
1314 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1315 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
1316 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
1317 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
1318 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1320 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1321 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
1324 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1325 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1326 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1327 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1329 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1330 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
1331 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
1334 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
1335 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
1336 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1338 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
1339 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
1340 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
1341 Closes ticket 32213.
1342 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1343 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
1344 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1346 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1347 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1348 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1349 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1350 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1353 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1354 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
1356 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
1357 Closes ticket 32216.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
1360 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1361 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1362 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1363 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1364 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1366 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1367 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
1368 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1369 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1370 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1371 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1372 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
1373 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
1375 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1376 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1377 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1378 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1380 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1381 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1382 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1383 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1385 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
1386 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
1387 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
1388 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
1389 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
1390 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
1391 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
1392 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
1395 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1396 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1397 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1398 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1400 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
1401 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
1402 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
1403 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1404 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1405 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1406 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1408 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
1409 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
1410 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
1411 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
1412 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1414 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1415 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
1416 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
1417 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
1420 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
1421 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
1422 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
1423 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
1424 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1426 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1427 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
1428 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
1429 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1431 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
1432 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1433 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1434 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1436 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
1437 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
1438 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1440 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1441 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
1442 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
1443 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
1445 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
1446 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1447 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
1448 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
1449 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
1450 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
1451 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1453 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
1454 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
1455 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
1456 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
1457 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
1459 o Deprecated features:
1460 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
1461 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
1462 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
1466 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
1467 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
1468 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
1469 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
1470 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
1471 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
1472 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
1473 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
1475 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
1476 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
1479 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
1480 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
1481 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
1482 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
1483 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
1484 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
1486 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
1487 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
1488 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
1489 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
1490 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
1493 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
1494 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
1495 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
1496 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
1497 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
1499 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
1500 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
1502 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
1503 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
1504 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
1505 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
1506 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
1509 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
1510 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
1511 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
1513 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
1514 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
1515 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
1516 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
1517 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
1518 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
1519 Solves part of ticket 32339.
1520 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
1521 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
1522 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
1523 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
1524 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
1525 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
1526 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
1527 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
1528 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
1529 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
1531 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
1532 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
1534 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
1535 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
1536 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
1538 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
1539 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
1540 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
1541 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
1542 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
1543 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
1545 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
1546 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
1547 Closes ticket 32163.
1548 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
1550 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
1552 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
1553 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
1554 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
1556 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
1557 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
1558 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
1559 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
1560 Closes ticket 32304.
1561 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
1562 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
1563 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
1564 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
1565 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
1568 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
1569 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1571 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1574 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
1575 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
1576 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
1577 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1578 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
1579 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
1580 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
1581 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1583 o Documentation (manpage):
1584 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
1585 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
1586 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1587 Google Season of Docs.
1588 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
1589 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
1590 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
1591 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
1592 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1593 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1595 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1597 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
1598 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
1599 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
1601 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
1602 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
1603 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1605 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
1606 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1607 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1608 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1609 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1610 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1611 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1612 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1615 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
1616 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
1619 o Testing (Travis CI):
1620 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1621 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1622 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1624 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1625 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1626 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1627 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1628 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1631 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
1632 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1633 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1634 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
1635 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
1636 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
1637 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
1638 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
1639 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
1640 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
1641 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
1642 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1644 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1645 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1646 as soon as packages are available.
1648 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1649 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1650 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1651 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1652 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1653 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1654 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1655 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1656 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1658 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1659 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1660 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1661 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1662 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1664 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1665 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1666 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1667 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1668 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1670 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1671 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1672 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1673 Closes ticket 33075.
1675 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1676 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1677 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1679 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1680 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1681 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1682 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1683 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1686 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1687 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1688 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1689 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1692 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1693 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1694 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1695 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1697 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1698 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1699 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1700 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1702 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1703 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1704 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1705 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1706 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1709 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
1710 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
1711 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
1712 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
1713 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
1714 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
1715 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
1716 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
1717 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
1718 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
1719 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
1720 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
1722 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1723 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1724 as soon as packages are available.
1726 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1727 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1728 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1729 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1730 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1731 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1732 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1733 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1734 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1736 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1737 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1738 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1739 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1740 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1742 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1743 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1744 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1746 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1747 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1748 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1749 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1750 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1753 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1754 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1755 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1756 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1759 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1760 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1761 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1762 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1764 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1765 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1766 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1767 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1769 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1770 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1771 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1772 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1773 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1776 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
1777 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
1778 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
1779 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
1780 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
1781 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
1782 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
1783 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
1784 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
1785 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
1786 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
1789 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
1790 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
1791 as soon as packages are available.
1793 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1794 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1795 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1796 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1797 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1798 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1799 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1800 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1801 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1803 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1804 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1805 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1806 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1807 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
1808 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1809 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1810 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1813 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1814 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
1815 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
1816 Closes ticket 33075.
1818 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1819 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1820 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1822 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1823 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1824 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1825 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1826 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1828 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1829 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
1830 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
1831 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
1832 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
1835 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1836 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
1837 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
1838 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
1841 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1842 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1843 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1844 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1846 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1847 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1848 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1849 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1850 Closes ticket 32629.
1851 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1852 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1853 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1855 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1856 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1858 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1859 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1860 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
1861 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1863 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1864 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1865 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1866 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1869 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
1870 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1871 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
1872 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
1873 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
1874 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
1876 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1877 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1878 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1879 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1880 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1881 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1882 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1883 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1885 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1886 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1887 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1889 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1890 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
1891 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
1892 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1894 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1895 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
1896 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
1897 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1899 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1900 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
1901 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
1902 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1903 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
1904 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
1907 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1908 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1909 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1911 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1912 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1913 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1914 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1915 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1916 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1917 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1918 Closes ticket 32629.
1920 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1921 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1924 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
1925 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
1926 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
1927 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
1928 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
1929 current version of 0.4.1.x.
1931 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1932 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1933 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1934 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1935 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1936 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1937 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1938 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1940 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1941 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1942 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1944 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
1945 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1946 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1947 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1948 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1950 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1951 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1952 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1954 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1955 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1956 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1957 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1958 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1959 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1960 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1961 Closes ticket 32629.
1963 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1964 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1967 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
1968 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
1969 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
1970 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
1971 bugs present in previous series.
1973 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
1974 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
1975 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1976 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1978 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
1979 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1981 o Major features (directory authorities):
1982 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
1983 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
1984 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1986 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
1987 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
1988 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
1989 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
1990 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
1991 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
1994 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
1995 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1996 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
1997 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
1998 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
1999 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2002 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2003 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2004 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2005 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2006 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2007 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2008 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2009 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2010 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2012 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2013 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2014 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2015 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2017 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2018 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2019 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2020 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2021 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2022 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2023 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2024 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2026 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2027 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2028 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2029 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2030 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2032 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2033 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2034 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2035 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2036 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2039 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2040 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2041 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2042 Closes ticket 29669.
2044 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2045 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2046 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2047 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2048 Closes ticket 31779.
2050 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2051 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2052 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2053 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2054 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2055 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2056 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2057 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2058 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2059 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2060 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2061 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2062 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2063 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2064 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2066 o Minor features (build system):
2067 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
2068 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
2069 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2070 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2071 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2073 o Minor features (compilation):
2074 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2075 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2076 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2078 o Minor features (configuration):
2079 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2080 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2081 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2082 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2084 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2085 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2086 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2087 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2088 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2089 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2090 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2092 o Minor features (debugging):
2093 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2094 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2095 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2096 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2098 o Minor features (geoip):
2099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2100 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2102 o Minor features (git hooks):
2103 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2104 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2105 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2106 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2107 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2109 o Minor features (git scripts):
2110 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2111 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2112 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2113 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2114 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2115 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2116 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2117 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2118 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2119 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2120 Closes ticket 31314.
2121 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2122 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2123 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2124 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2125 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2126 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2127 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2128 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2129 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2131 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2132 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
2133 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
2136 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
2137 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
2138 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
2140 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
2141 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
2142 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
2143 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
2144 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
2145 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
2146 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
2148 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2149 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
2150 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
2152 o Minor features (onion service):
2153 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
2154 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
2155 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
2156 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
2158 o Minor features (onion services v3):
2159 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
2160 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
2163 o Minor features (stem tests):
2164 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2165 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2168 o Minor features (testing):
2169 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
2170 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
2171 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
2172 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
2173 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
2174 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
2175 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
2176 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
2177 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
2178 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
2179 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
2180 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
2181 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
2182 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
2183 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
2185 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
2186 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2187 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2188 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2190 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2191 Closes ticket 31859.
2192 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2193 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2195 o Minor features (token bucket):
2196 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
2197 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
2199 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
2200 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
2201 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2203 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2204 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
2205 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
2206 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2207 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
2208 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
2209 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
2210 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
2213 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2214 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
2215 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2216 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
2218 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
2219 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2220 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
2221 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
2222 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2223 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2224 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2226 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
2227 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
2228 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
2229 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
2230 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
2231 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2233 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
2234 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2235 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2236 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2237 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2238 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2240 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2241 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
2242 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2244 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2245 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2246 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2247 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2248 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2250 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2251 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2252 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2254 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2255 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
2256 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
2257 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
2259 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
2260 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2261 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2262 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2264 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2265 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2266 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
2267 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2269 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
2270 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
2271 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
2272 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
2273 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
2274 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
2275 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
2276 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
2277 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
2278 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2280 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
2281 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2282 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2283 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2284 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2286 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2287 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2288 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2291 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2292 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2293 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2295 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2296 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2297 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2298 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2299 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2300 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2301 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2302 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2303 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2304 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2305 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2306 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2309 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2310 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2311 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2312 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2315 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
2316 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
2317 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
2318 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2320 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2321 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
2322 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
2323 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2324 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
2325 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2326 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
2327 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
2328 Closes ticket 31678.
2330 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2331 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2332 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2333 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2334 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2336 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2337 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
2338 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
2339 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
2340 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2341 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
2342 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
2343 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
2344 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
2347 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2348 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2349 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2350 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2351 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2352 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2353 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2354 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2355 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2356 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
2357 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2358 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2359 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2361 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
2362 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
2363 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
2365 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
2366 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2367 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2368 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2370 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
2371 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2372 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2373 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2374 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2377 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2378 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
2379 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
2382 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
2383 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
2384 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
2387 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
2388 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2389 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2391 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
2392 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
2393 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
2394 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
2395 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
2396 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2398 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
2399 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
2400 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
2401 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2404 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2405 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
2406 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
2407 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
2408 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2411 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
2412 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
2413 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
2414 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
2415 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2417 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
2418 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
2419 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
2420 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2422 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
2423 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2424 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2426 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2427 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2428 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2430 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2431 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2432 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2433 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2435 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2436 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2437 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2438 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
2439 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2441 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
2442 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
2443 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
2444 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2446 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2447 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
2448 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
2449 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
2450 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2452 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
2453 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
2454 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
2455 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
2456 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
2459 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2460 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2461 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
2463 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2464 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2465 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2466 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2467 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
2468 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
2471 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
2472 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2473 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2475 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
2476 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2477 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2480 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
2481 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2482 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2483 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2484 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2485 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2487 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2488 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
2489 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
2490 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
2491 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2493 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
2494 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2495 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2496 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2497 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2498 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2499 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2500 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2501 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2502 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2504 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2505 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
2506 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
2507 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
2508 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
2509 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
2510 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
2512 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
2516 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
2517 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2518 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
2519 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
2520 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
2521 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
2522 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
2523 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
2525 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2526 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2527 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
2528 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
2529 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
2530 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
2531 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
2532 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
2533 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
2534 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
2535 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2536 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2537 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2540 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
2541 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
2542 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
2543 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
2544 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
2545 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
2547 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
2551 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
2552 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
2553 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2554 Closes ticket 32500.
2555 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
2556 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
2557 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
2558 Closes ticket 30967.
2560 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
2561 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
2562 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
2563 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
2564 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
2565 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
2566 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
2567 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
2568 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
2569 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
2570 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
2571 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
2572 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
2573 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
2574 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
2575 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
2577 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2578 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
2579 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
2580 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
2581 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
2582 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
2583 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
2584 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
2585 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
2586 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
2588 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
2589 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
2590 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
2592 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
2593 Closes ticket 30806.
2594 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
2595 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
2598 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
2599 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
2600 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
2602 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
2603 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
2604 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2606 o Testing (continuous integration):
2607 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2608 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2609 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2610 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2611 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2612 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2613 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2614 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2615 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2618 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
2619 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2620 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
2621 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2623 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2624 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2625 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2626 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2628 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2629 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2630 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2631 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2633 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2634 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2635 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2636 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2637 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2638 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2639 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2640 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2642 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2643 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2644 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2645 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2646 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2648 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2649 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2650 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2651 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2652 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2655 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2656 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2657 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2658 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2660 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2661 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2662 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2664 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2665 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2666 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2668 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2669 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2670 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2671 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2672 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2673 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2675 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2676 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2677 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2678 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2680 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2681 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2682 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2683 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2684 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2685 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2686 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2687 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2688 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2689 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2692 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2693 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2694 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2695 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2696 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2697 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2698 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2699 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2700 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2702 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2703 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2704 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2705 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2707 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2708 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2709 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2710 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2711 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2714 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2715 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2716 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2718 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2719 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2720 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2722 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2723 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2724 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2726 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2727 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2728 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2729 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2731 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2732 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2733 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2734 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2735 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2737 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2738 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2739 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2741 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2742 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2743 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2746 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2747 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2748 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2750 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2751 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2752 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2753 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2755 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2756 Closes ticket 31859.
2757 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2758 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2760 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2761 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2762 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2763 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2764 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2765 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2766 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2767 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2768 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2769 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2771 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2772 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2773 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2774 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2775 Closes ticket 32500.
2778 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
2779 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
2780 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
2781 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
2782 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
2784 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
2785 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
2786 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
2787 support until 1 Feb 2022.
2789 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
2790 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2793 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2794 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2795 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2796 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2797 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2798 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2799 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2800 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2801 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2802 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2803 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2805 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2806 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2807 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2808 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2809 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2810 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2812 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2813 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2814 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2815 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2816 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2819 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2820 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2821 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2822 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2823 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2825 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2826 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2827 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2828 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2831 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2832 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2833 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2834 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2835 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2836 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2837 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2838 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2840 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2841 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2842 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2843 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2844 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2846 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2847 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2848 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2849 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2850 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2853 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2854 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2855 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2857 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2858 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2859 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2862 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2863 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2864 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2866 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2867 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2868 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2869 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2871 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2872 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2873 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2874 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2875 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2877 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2878 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2879 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2881 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2882 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2883 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2886 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2887 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2888 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2890 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2891 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2892 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2894 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2895 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2896 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2898 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2899 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
2900 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
2903 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2904 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2905 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2906 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2907 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2908 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2910 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2911 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2912 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2913 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2914 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2916 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2917 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2918 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2922 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2923 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2925 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2926 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2927 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2928 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2930 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2931 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2932 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2933 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2935 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2936 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2937 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2938 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2940 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2941 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2942 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2943 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2945 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2946 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2947 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2948 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2949 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2950 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2951 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2953 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2954 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2955 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2956 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2958 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2959 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2960 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2961 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2963 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2964 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
2965 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
2968 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2969 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2970 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2971 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2972 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2973 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2974 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2976 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2977 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2978 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2979 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2982 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2983 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2984 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2985 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2986 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2988 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2989 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
2990 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
2991 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
2992 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2995 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2996 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2999 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3000 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3001 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3002 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3003 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3005 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3006 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3007 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3008 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3011 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3012 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3013 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3014 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3017 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3018 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3019 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3022 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3023 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3024 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3025 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3027 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3028 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3029 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3030 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3032 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3033 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3034 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3035 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3037 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3038 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3039 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3040 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3043 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3044 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3045 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3046 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3047 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3048 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3051 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3052 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3053 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3055 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3056 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3057 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3059 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3060 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3061 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3062 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3064 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3065 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3066 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3068 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3069 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3070 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3071 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3072 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3074 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3075 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3076 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3079 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3080 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3081 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3082 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3083 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3084 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3085 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3086 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3087 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3088 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3090 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3091 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3092 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3093 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3095 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3096 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3097 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3098 Resolves issue 29702.
3100 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3101 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3103 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3104 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3105 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3106 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3109 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3110 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3111 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3112 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3114 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3115 Closes ticket 31859.
3116 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3117 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3119 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3120 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3121 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3122 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3123 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3124 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3125 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3126 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3127 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3128 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3130 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3131 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3132 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3133 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3134 Closes ticket 32500.
3137 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
3138 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
3139 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
3142 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3143 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3146 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3147 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3148 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3149 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3150 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3151 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3152 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3153 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3154 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3155 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3156 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3158 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3159 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3160 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3161 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3162 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3163 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3165 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3166 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3167 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3168 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3169 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3170 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3172 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3173 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3174 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3175 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3176 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3179 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3180 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3181 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3182 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3183 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3185 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3186 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3187 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3188 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3191 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3192 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3193 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3194 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3195 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3197 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3198 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3199 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3200 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3201 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3204 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3205 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3206 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3207 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3208 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3209 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3210 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3211 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3213 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3214 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3215 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3216 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3217 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3220 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3221 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3222 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3224 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3225 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3226 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3229 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3230 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3231 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3232 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3234 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3235 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3236 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3239 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3240 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3241 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3243 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3244 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3245 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3246 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3248 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3249 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3250 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3251 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3252 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3254 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3256 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3258 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3259 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3260 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3261 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3263 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3264 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3265 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3268 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3269 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3270 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3271 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3272 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3273 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3274 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3275 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3276 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3277 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3278 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3279 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3280 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3283 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3284 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3285 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3286 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3287 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3289 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3290 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3291 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3293 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3294 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3295 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3297 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3298 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3299 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3301 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3302 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3303 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3306 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3307 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3308 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3310 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3311 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3312 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3313 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3314 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3315 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3317 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3318 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3319 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3320 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3321 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3323 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3324 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3325 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3329 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3330 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3332 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3333 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3334 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3336 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3337 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3338 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3339 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3342 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3343 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3344 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3346 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3347 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3348 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3349 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3351 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3352 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3353 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3354 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3356 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3357 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3358 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3359 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3360 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3361 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3362 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3364 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3365 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3366 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3367 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3369 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3370 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3371 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3372 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3374 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3375 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3376 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3379 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3380 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3381 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3382 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3383 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3384 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3385 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3387 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3388 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3389 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3390 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3393 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3394 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3395 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3396 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3397 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3399 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3400 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3401 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3403 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3404 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3405 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3406 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3407 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3408 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3409 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3410 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3411 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3412 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3413 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3415 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3416 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3417 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3418 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3419 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3421 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3422 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3423 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3426 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3427 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3428 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3429 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3430 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3432 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3433 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3434 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3435 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3437 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3438 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3439 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3440 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3441 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3444 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3445 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3446 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3449 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3450 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3451 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3452 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3454 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3455 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3456 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3457 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3459 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3460 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3461 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3463 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3464 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3465 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3466 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3469 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3470 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3471 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3474 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3475 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3476 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3477 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3478 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3479 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3482 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3483 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3484 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3485 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3487 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
3488 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3489 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3491 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3492 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3493 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3495 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3496 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3497 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3498 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3499 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3500 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3501 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3503 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3504 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3505 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3508 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3509 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3510 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3511 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3512 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3513 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3514 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3515 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3517 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
3518 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3519 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3520 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3521 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3522 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3525 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3526 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3527 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3528 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3529 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3531 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
3532 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3533 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3534 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3535 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3536 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3537 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3538 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3540 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3541 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3542 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3545 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3546 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3547 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3548 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3549 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3550 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3551 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3552 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3553 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3554 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3556 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
3557 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3558 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3559 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3560 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3561 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3563 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3564 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3565 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3566 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3568 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3569 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3570 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3571 Resolves issue 29702.
3573 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3574 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3576 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3577 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3578 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3579 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3582 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3583 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3584 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3585 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3587 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3588 Closes ticket 31859.
3589 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3590 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3592 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3593 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3594 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3595 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3596 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3597 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3598 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3599 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3600 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3601 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3603 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3604 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3605 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3606 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3607 Closes ticket 32500.
3610 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
3611 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3612 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
3613 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
3616 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3617 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3618 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3619 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3620 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3621 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3622 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3623 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3624 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3626 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3627 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3628 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3631 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3632 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3633 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3635 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3636 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3637 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3638 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3639 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3641 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3642 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3643 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3645 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3646 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
3647 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
3648 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3650 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3651 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3652 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3653 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3656 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3657 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3658 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3659 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3660 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3662 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3663 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3664 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3667 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3668 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3669 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3671 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3672 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3673 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3674 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3675 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3676 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3678 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3679 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3680 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3681 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3682 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3683 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3684 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3685 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3686 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3687 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3689 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3690 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3691 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3692 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3695 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
3696 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
3697 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
3698 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
3699 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
3700 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
3701 bugfixes on earlier versions.
3703 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
3704 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
3705 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3706 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3708 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
3709 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3711 o Directory authority changes:
3712 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3715 o Major features (circuit padding):
3716 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
3717 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
3718 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
3719 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
3720 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
3721 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
3722 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
3723 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
3724 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
3726 o Major features (code organization):
3727 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
3728 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
3729 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
3730 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
3733 o Major features (controller protocol):
3734 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
3735 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
3736 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
3737 Closes ticket 30091.
3739 o Major features (flow control):
3740 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
3741 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
3742 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
3743 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
3744 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
3745 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
3746 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
3748 o Major features (performance):
3749 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
3750 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
3751 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
3753 o Major features (performance, RNG):
3754 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
3755 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
3756 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
3757 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
3758 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
3759 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
3760 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
3761 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
3763 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3764 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3765 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3766 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3767 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3768 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3769 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3770 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3771 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3772 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3773 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3775 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3776 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3777 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3779 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3780 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3781 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3782 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3783 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3785 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
3786 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3787 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3788 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3789 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3792 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3793 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3794 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3795 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3796 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3798 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3799 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3800 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3801 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3804 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
3805 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
3806 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
3807 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
3808 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
3809 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
3812 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
3813 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
3814 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
3815 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
3817 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3818 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
3820 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
3821 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
3822 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
3823 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
3824 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3825 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
3826 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
3828 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
3829 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3830 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3832 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3833 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3834 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3835 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
3836 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
3838 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3839 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3841 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3843 o Minor features (controller):
3844 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
3845 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
3846 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3848 o Minor features (debugging):
3849 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
3850 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
3851 can use format strings to include information for trouble
3852 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
3854 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3855 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
3856 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
3857 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
3858 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
3859 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
3860 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
3861 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
3862 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
3863 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
3865 o Minor features (developer tools):
3866 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
3867 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
3868 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
3869 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
3870 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
3872 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
3873 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
3875 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
3876 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
3878 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3879 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3880 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3881 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3882 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3884 o Minor features (geoip):
3885 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3886 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
3887 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3888 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
3890 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
3891 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
3892 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
3894 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
3895 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
3896 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
3897 addresses. Implements 26992.
3899 o Minor features (logging):
3900 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
3901 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
3902 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
3903 Closes ticket 30686.
3905 o Minor features (maintenance):
3906 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
3907 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
3908 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
3910 o Minor features (modularity):
3911 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
3912 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
3914 o Minor features (performance):
3915 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
3916 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
3917 Closes ticket 28837.
3919 o Minor features (testing):
3920 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
3921 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
3922 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
3923 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
3925 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
3926 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
3927 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
3928 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
3929 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
3930 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
3931 Implements ticket 29732.
3932 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
3933 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
3935 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
3936 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
3938 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
3939 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
3940 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
3941 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
3942 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3943 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3945 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
3946 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
3947 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
3948 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3950 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
3951 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3952 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3954 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3955 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
3956 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3957 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
3958 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
3959 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
3960 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3961 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
3962 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
3963 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3964 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
3965 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3966 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3967 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
3968 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3969 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
3970 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
3971 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3973 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
3974 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3975 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3976 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3977 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3979 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
3980 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
3981 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
3982 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
3983 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
3984 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
3987 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3988 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
3991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3992 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3993 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
3996 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3997 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3998 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4000 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
4001 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4002 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4003 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4005 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4006 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4007 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4008 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4009 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4010 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4011 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4013 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4014 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
4015 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
4016 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
4017 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4019 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
4020 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4021 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4022 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4024 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4025 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
4026 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
4029 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4030 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4031 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4032 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4033 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4034 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4036 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
4037 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4038 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4040 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4041 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
4042 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4043 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
4044 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
4045 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
4047 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
4048 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4050 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4051 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4052 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4053 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4054 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4055 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
4056 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
4059 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4060 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4061 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4063 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
4064 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
4067 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
4068 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4069 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4070 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4072 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4073 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4074 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4075 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4076 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
4077 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
4078 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
4079 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
4081 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
4082 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
4083 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4084 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
4085 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
4086 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
4087 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4089 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
4090 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
4091 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
4092 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
4093 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
4094 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4096 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
4097 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4098 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4099 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4102 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4103 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
4104 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
4105 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
4106 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4108 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4109 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
4110 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4112 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4113 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4114 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4115 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4116 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4117 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4120 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
4121 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
4122 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
4125 o Minor bugfixes (python):
4126 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
4127 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
4128 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4130 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4131 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
4132 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
4133 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
4134 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4136 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
4137 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
4138 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
4139 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
4141 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4142 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
4143 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
4144 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
4145 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4147 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4148 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
4149 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
4150 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4151 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
4152 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4153 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
4154 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4155 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
4156 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
4157 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
4158 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
4159 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4161 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
4162 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
4163 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
4164 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
4165 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4167 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4168 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
4169 port. Implements ticket 30007.
4170 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
4171 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
4172 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
4173 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
4174 string to directory connection with or without compression.
4175 Resolves issue 28816.
4176 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
4177 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
4178 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
4179 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
4180 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
4181 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
4182 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
4183 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
4184 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
4185 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
4186 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
4187 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
4188 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
4189 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
4190 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
4191 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
4192 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4193 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
4194 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4195 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
4196 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
4197 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
4198 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
4199 Closes ticket 29894.
4200 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
4201 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
4202 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
4203 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
4206 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
4207 Closes ticket 30630.
4208 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
4209 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
4213 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
4214 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
4215 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
4216 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
4220 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4221 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4222 Resolves issue 29702.
4224 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4225 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
4226 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
4227 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
4228 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
4229 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
4230 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
4231 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
4232 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
4233 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
4234 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
4237 o Testing (chutney):
4238 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
4239 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
4240 Closes ticket 27251.
4242 o Testing (continuous integration):
4243 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
4244 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4245 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
4246 Closes ticket 30694.
4249 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
4250 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
4251 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
4252 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
4253 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
4254 long-term maintainability.
4256 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
4257 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
4258 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4259 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4261 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
4262 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4264 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
4265 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
4266 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
4267 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
4268 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
4269 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
4271 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
4272 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
4274 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
4275 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
4278 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
4279 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
4280 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
4281 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
4282 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4283 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4284 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4285 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4286 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4289 o Major features (circuit padding):
4290 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4291 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4292 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4293 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4294 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4295 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4296 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4297 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4300 o Major features (refactoring):
4301 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4302 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4303 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4304 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4307 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4308 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4309 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4310 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4311 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4312 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4313 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4314 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4316 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4317 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4318 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4319 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4320 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4322 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
4323 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4324 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4325 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4326 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4327 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4329 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
4330 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
4331 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
4332 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
4333 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
4334 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
4335 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4337 o Minor features (address selection):
4338 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4339 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4340 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4341 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4342 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4343 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4344 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4346 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
4347 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4348 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4349 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4350 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4352 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
4353 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
4354 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
4357 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4358 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
4359 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
4360 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
4361 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
4364 o Minor features (compilation):
4365 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4366 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4367 Patches from "Mangix".
4369 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4370 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4371 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4373 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
4375 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4376 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4377 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4379 o Minor features (controller):
4380 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
4381 Implements ticket 28843.
4383 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4384 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
4385 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
4386 release. Closes ticket 27761.
4387 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
4388 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
4389 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
4391 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
4392 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
4393 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
4395 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4396 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
4397 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
4400 o Minor features (directory authority):
4401 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
4402 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
4403 Closes ticket 26698.
4404 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
4405 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
4406 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
4407 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
4410 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
4411 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
4412 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
4413 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
4414 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
4415 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
4416 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
4418 o Minor features (dormant mode):
4419 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
4420 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
4421 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
4422 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
4423 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
4424 background. Closes ticket 29357.
4426 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4427 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
4428 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
4430 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
4431 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
4432 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
4433 Closes ticket 28518.
4435 o Minor features (geoip):
4436 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4437 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
4439 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
4440 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
4441 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
4442 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
4444 o Minor features (IPv6):
4445 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
4446 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
4447 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
4448 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
4449 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
4450 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4451 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
4452 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
4453 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
4454 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4456 o Minor features (log messages):
4457 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
4458 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
4461 o Minor features (memory usage):
4462 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
4463 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
4464 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
4465 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
4466 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
4468 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
4469 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4470 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4471 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4473 o Minor features (parsing):
4474 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
4475 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
4476 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
4478 o Minor features (performance):
4479 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
4480 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
4481 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
4482 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
4484 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
4485 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
4486 Closes ticket 28852.
4487 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
4488 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
4489 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
4490 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
4491 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
4492 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
4494 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
4495 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
4496 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
4497 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
4498 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
4500 o Minor features (process management):
4501 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
4502 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
4503 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
4504 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
4505 module. Closes ticket 28847.
4507 o Minor features (relay):
4508 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
4509 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
4510 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
4512 o Minor features (required protocols):
4513 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
4514 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
4515 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
4516 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
4517 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
4518 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
4519 297; closes ticket 27735.
4521 o Minor features (testing):
4522 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4524 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
4525 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
4526 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
4527 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
4530 o Minor bugfixes (security):
4531 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4532 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4533 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4534 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4535 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4536 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4537 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4538 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4540 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4541 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4542 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4543 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4545 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
4546 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4547 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4548 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4549 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4551 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4552 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4553 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4555 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
4556 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4557 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4558 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4560 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4561 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4562 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4565 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
4566 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
4567 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4568 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4569 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4572 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4573 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
4574 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4575 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4576 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4577 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4578 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4579 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4581 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
4582 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4583 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4585 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
4586 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
4587 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
4588 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4590 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
4591 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
4592 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
4593 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
4594 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4596 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4597 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4598 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4599 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4601 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4602 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
4603 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
4604 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
4605 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
4606 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
4607 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4609 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4610 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4611 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4612 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4615 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4616 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
4617 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4619 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4620 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4621 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4622 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4623 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4624 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4625 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4626 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4627 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4628 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4629 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4630 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4631 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4632 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4633 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4634 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4635 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4636 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4637 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4638 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4639 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4640 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4642 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4643 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4644 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4645 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4646 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4647 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4649 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4650 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4651 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4652 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4653 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4655 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4656 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
4657 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
4658 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4660 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4661 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4662 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4663 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4664 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4665 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4667 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4668 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4669 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4671 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4672 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4673 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4675 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4676 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4677 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4678 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4680 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
4681 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
4682 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
4683 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4685 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4686 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
4687 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
4688 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
4689 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4691 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4692 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4693 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4695 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4696 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
4697 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
4698 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
4699 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
4702 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4703 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
4704 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
4705 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4707 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
4708 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4709 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4710 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4711 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4712 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4713 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4715 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4716 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4717 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4720 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4721 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4722 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4723 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4724 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4725 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4727 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4728 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4729 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4730 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4731 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4732 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4733 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4734 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
4735 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4736 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
4737 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4738 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
4739 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
4740 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
4741 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4742 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4743 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4744 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4745 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4747 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
4748 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
4749 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
4750 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4751 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
4752 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
4755 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4756 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4757 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4758 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4759 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4760 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4761 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4763 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
4764 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
4765 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4768 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4769 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4770 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4771 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4773 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
4774 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4775 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4776 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4777 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4778 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4780 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4781 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
4782 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
4783 Resolves issue 28816.
4784 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
4785 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
4786 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
4787 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
4788 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
4790 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
4791 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
4792 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
4793 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
4794 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
4795 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
4796 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
4797 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
4801 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
4802 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
4803 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
4804 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
4805 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
4806 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
4807 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
4808 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
4809 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
4811 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
4814 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
4815 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
4816 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
4817 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
4818 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
4819 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
4820 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
4821 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
4824 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
4826 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
4827 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
4829 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
4830 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
4831 code from client and service into one function. Closes
4834 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4835 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
4837 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
4838 Resolves ticket 28006.
4839 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
4840 Resolves ticket 28012.
4841 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
4842 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
4843 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
4844 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
4848 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
4849 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
4850 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
4853 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4854 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4855 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4857 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4858 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4859 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4860 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4861 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4862 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4863 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4864 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4866 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4867 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4868 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4869 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4870 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4872 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4873 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4874 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4875 Patches from "Mangix".
4877 o Minor features (geoip):
4878 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4879 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4881 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4882 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4885 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4886 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4887 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4888 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4889 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4890 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4892 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4893 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4894 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4895 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4898 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4899 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4900 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4901 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4903 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4904 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4905 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4909 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4910 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4911 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4913 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4914 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4915 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4916 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4918 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4919 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4920 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4921 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4922 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4923 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4925 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4926 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4927 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4928 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4929 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4931 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4932 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4933 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4934 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4935 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4937 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4938 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4939 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4941 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4942 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4943 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4945 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4946 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4947 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4948 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4950 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4951 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4952 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4954 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4955 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4956 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4957 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4958 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4961 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4962 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4963 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4964 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4965 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4968 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
4969 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
4970 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
4971 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
4972 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4974 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4975 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4976 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4977 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4978 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4979 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4980 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4981 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4983 o Minor features (geoip):
4984 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4985 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4987 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4988 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4989 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4990 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4992 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4993 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4994 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4995 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4996 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4999 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
5000 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5001 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5002 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5004 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
5005 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
5006 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
5007 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5009 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5010 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5011 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5012 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5013 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5014 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5015 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5016 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5018 o Minor features (geoip):
5019 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5020 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5022 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5023 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5024 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5025 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5027 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5028 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5029 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5030 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5031 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5034 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
5035 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5036 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
5037 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
5038 to this version, or to a later series.
5040 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
5041 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
5042 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
5043 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
5044 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
5045 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5047 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5048 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5049 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5050 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5051 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5054 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5055 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5056 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5057 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5059 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5060 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5061 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5062 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5063 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5064 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5065 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5066 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5068 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5069 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5070 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5071 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5073 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5074 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5075 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5076 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5077 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5079 o Minor features (geoip):
5080 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5081 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5083 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5084 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5085 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5086 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5087 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5088 Closes ticket 28973.
5090 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5091 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5092 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5093 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5095 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5096 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5097 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5100 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5101 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5102 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5104 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5105 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5106 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5107 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5109 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5110 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5111 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5112 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5114 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5115 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5116 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5117 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5118 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5119 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5122 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5123 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5124 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5127 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5128 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5129 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5130 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5131 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5133 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5134 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5135 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5136 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5137 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5139 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5140 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5141 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5142 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5143 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5144 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5146 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5147 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
5148 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
5151 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5152 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5153 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5155 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5156 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5157 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5159 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5160 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5161 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5164 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5165 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5166 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5167 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5168 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5169 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5170 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5171 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5173 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5174 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5175 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5176 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5178 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5179 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5180 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5181 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5182 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5183 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5184 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5185 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5186 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5187 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5189 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5190 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5191 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5192 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5193 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5194 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5196 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5197 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5198 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5199 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5200 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5202 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5203 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5204 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5207 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
5208 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5209 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
5210 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
5213 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
5214 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
5215 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
5218 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5219 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5220 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5221 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5222 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5225 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5226 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5227 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5228 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5229 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5230 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5231 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5233 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5234 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5235 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5238 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5239 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5240 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5241 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5242 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5245 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5246 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5247 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5248 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5249 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5251 o Minor features (geoip):
5252 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5253 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
5255 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5256 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5257 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5258 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5259 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5260 Closes ticket 28973.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5263 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5264 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5265 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5267 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5268 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5269 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5270 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5271 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5274 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5275 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5276 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5277 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5279 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5280 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5281 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5283 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5284 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5285 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5286 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5288 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5289 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5290 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5291 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5292 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5293 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5296 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5297 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5298 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5300 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5301 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5302 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5303 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5304 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5306 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5307 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5308 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5309 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5310 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5311 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5313 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5314 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5315 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5316 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5318 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5319 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5320 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5323 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
5324 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
5325 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
5326 affecting directory caches.
5328 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
5329 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
5330 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
5331 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
5332 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
5333 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
5334 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
5335 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
5337 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
5338 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
5339 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
5340 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
5341 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
5342 so it will recognize them.
5344 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
5345 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
5346 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
5347 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
5348 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
5349 with the latest stable release.)
5351 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
5352 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5354 o Major features (bootstrap):
5355 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
5356 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
5357 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
5358 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
5360 o Major features (new code layout):
5361 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
5362 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
5363 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
5364 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
5365 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
5366 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
5367 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
5369 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
5370 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
5371 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
5373 o Major features (onion services v3):
5374 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
5375 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
5376 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
5377 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
5378 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
5379 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
5380 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
5381 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5382 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
5383 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
5384 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
5385 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
5386 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
5387 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
5388 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
5389 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
5390 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
5391 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
5393 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5394 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5395 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
5396 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
5397 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
5398 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
5400 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
5401 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
5402 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
5403 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
5404 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
5405 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
5406 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
5408 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
5409 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
5410 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
5411 (if present), and restart Tor.
5413 o Major features (relay, UI change):
5414 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
5415 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
5416 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
5417 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
5418 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5419 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
5420 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
5422 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5423 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5424 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5426 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
5427 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
5428 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
5429 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
5430 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
5431 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5433 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5434 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
5435 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
5436 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
5439 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
5440 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
5441 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
5442 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
5443 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5445 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
5446 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5447 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5448 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5449 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5451 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5452 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
5453 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
5454 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
5455 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
5456 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
5458 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
5459 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5460 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5461 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5462 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5465 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
5466 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
5467 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
5468 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5469 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5470 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5472 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5473 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5474 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5475 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5476 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5478 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5479 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5480 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5481 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5482 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5483 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5485 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
5486 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5487 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5488 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5490 o Minor features (admin tools):
5491 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
5492 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
5495 o Minor features (build):
5496 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
5497 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
5498 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
5499 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
5501 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
5502 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
5503 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
5504 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
5505 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
5507 o Minor features (code layout):
5508 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
5509 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
5510 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
5511 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
5514 o Minor features (compilation):
5515 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
5516 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
5517 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
5518 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
5519 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
5520 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
5523 o Minor features (config):
5524 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
5527 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5528 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
5530 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
5531 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
5532 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5533 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5534 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5535 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
5536 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
5538 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5539 Implements ticket 27252.
5540 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5541 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5542 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5543 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5544 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5545 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5546 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5547 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5548 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5550 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
5551 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5552 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5554 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
5555 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
5557 o Minor features (controller):
5558 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
5559 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
5560 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
5561 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
5562 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5563 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5564 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5565 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5567 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
5568 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
5569 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
5570 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
5572 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5573 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
5574 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
5575 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5577 o Minor features (development):
5578 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
5579 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
5581 o Minor features (directory authority):
5582 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
5583 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
5584 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
5585 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
5587 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
5588 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
5591 o Minor features (embedding API):
5592 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
5593 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
5594 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
5595 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
5596 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
5597 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
5600 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5601 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5602 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5603 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5604 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5606 o Minor features (geoip):
5607 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5608 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5610 o Minor features (memory management):
5611 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
5612 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
5615 o Minor features (memory usage):
5616 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
5617 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
5618 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
5620 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
5621 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5622 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5623 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5624 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5625 Closes ticket 28973.
5627 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
5628 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
5629 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
5631 o Minor features (performance):
5632 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
5633 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
5634 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
5635 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
5636 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
5637 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
5638 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
5639 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
5640 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
5641 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
5643 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
5644 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
5645 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
5646 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
5648 o Minor features (testing):
5649 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
5650 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
5652 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
5653 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
5654 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
5656 o Minor features (UI):
5657 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
5658 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
5659 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
5660 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
5661 Closes ticket 26703.
5663 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5664 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5665 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5666 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5667 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5669 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5670 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5671 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5672 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5673 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5676 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5677 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
5678 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
5679 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5681 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5682 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
5683 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
5684 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5685 - Use time_t for all values in
5686 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
5687 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
5688 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5690 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
5691 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
5692 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
5693 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
5694 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
5697 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
5698 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
5699 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
5700 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
5701 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
5702 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5704 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5705 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
5706 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
5707 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
5710 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5711 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5714 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5715 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5716 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5717 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5719 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5720 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
5721 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
5724 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
5725 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
5726 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
5727 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
5728 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
5730 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
5731 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5732 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5733 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5734 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5737 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
5738 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5739 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5740 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5741 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5742 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5743 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5744 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5745 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5746 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5747 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5748 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5749 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5751 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5752 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5753 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5755 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5756 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
5757 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
5758 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
5759 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
5762 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5763 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
5764 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
5765 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
5766 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5768 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
5769 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5770 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5772 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
5773 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5774 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5775 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5776 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5777 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5780 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5781 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5782 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5785 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5786 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
5787 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
5788 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
5789 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5791 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5792 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
5793 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
5796 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5797 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
5798 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
5800 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
5801 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
5802 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
5803 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5804 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
5805 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5807 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
5808 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
5809 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
5810 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
5811 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5813 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5814 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5815 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5816 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
5817 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5819 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
5820 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5821 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5823 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5824 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
5825 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
5826 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
5829 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5830 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5831 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5832 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5833 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5834 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5835 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
5836 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
5837 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
5839 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
5840 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
5842 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5843 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5844 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5845 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5846 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5847 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5848 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5849 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5850 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5851 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5852 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5854 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
5855 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
5856 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
5857 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5859 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
5860 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
5861 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
5862 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
5863 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
5865 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
5866 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
5867 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
5868 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
5870 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
5871 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5872 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5875 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
5876 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
5878 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5879 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5880 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5881 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5882 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5883 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5884 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5885 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5886 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5887 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5889 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
5890 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
5891 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
5892 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
5893 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5895 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5896 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5897 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5898 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5900 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5901 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
5902 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
5903 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
5904 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
5905 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5906 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5907 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
5908 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
5909 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5911 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5912 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
5913 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
5914 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5915 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5916 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5917 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5918 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5919 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5921 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
5922 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
5923 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5924 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
5925 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5926 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5927 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5928 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5929 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5930 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5931 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
5932 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
5933 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5934 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
5935 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5937 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
5938 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
5939 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
5940 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
5941 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
5942 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
5943 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
5944 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
5946 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
5947 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
5948 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
5949 reported by Keifer Bly.
5951 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5952 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
5953 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
5955 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
5956 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
5957 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
5958 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
5959 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
5960 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
5961 Closes ticket 27814.
5962 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
5963 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
5964 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
5965 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
5966 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
5967 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
5968 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
5969 Closes ticket 27799.
5970 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
5971 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
5972 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
5973 directory within the top-level src directory.
5974 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
5975 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
5976 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
5977 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
5978 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
5979 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
5980 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
5981 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
5982 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
5983 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
5984 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
5985 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
5986 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
5987 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
5988 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
5989 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
5990 Closes ticket 21349.
5991 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
5992 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
5993 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
5994 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
5995 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
5996 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
5997 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
5999 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
6000 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
6001 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
6004 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
6005 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
6006 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
6007 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
6008 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
6009 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
6010 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
6011 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
6012 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
6015 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
6016 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
6017 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
6018 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
6019 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
6020 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
6021 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
6022 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
6023 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
6024 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
6025 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
6026 Closes ticket 26367.
6029 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6030 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6032 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6033 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6034 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6035 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6036 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6037 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6038 Closes ticket 19566.
6040 o Documentation (onion services):
6041 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
6042 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
6043 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6044 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6045 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6046 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6047 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6048 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6051 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6052 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6053 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
6054 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
6055 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
6057 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6058 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6059 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6061 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6062 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6063 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6064 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6065 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6067 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6068 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6069 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6070 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6071 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6074 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6075 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6076 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6077 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6079 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6080 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6081 Implements ticket 27252.
6082 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6083 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6084 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6085 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6086 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6087 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6088 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6090 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6091 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6092 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6093 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6095 o Minor features (geoip):
6096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6097 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
6099 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6100 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6101 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6102 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6103 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6105 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6106 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6107 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6108 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6109 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6112 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6113 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6114 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6117 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6118 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6119 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6120 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6121 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6123 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6124 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6125 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6127 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6128 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6129 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6131 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6132 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6133 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6134 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6136 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6137 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6138 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6140 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6141 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6142 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6145 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6146 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6147 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6150 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6151 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6154 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6155 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6156 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6157 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6158 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6160 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6161 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6162 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6163 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6164 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6165 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6168 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6169 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6172 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6173 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6174 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6175 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6176 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6177 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6178 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6179 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6181 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6182 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6183 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6184 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6186 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6187 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6188 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6189 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6190 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6192 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6193 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6194 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6195 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6196 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6197 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6199 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6200 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6201 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6202 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6203 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6204 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6206 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6207 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6208 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6209 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6212 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6213 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6214 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6215 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6216 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6219 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
6220 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
6222 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6223 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6224 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6225 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6227 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6228 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6230 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6231 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6232 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6233 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6235 o Minor features (geoip):
6236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6237 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6239 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6240 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6241 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6242 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6245 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6246 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6247 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6248 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6249 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6250 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6251 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6254 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6255 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6256 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6257 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6259 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6260 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6261 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6262 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6264 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6265 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6266 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6267 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6269 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6270 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6271 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6272 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6273 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6275 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6276 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6277 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6280 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6281 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6282 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6283 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6284 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6286 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6287 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6288 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6291 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6292 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6293 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6294 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6297 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6298 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6300 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6301 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6302 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6305 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6306 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6307 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6308 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6309 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6311 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6312 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6313 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6316 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
6317 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6319 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6320 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6321 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6322 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6324 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6325 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6327 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6328 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6329 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6330 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6332 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6333 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6336 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6337 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6338 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6339 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6341 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6342 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6343 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6344 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6346 o Minor features (geoip):
6347 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6348 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6350 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6351 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6352 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6353 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6354 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6355 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6356 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6358 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6359 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6360 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6361 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6362 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6363 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6364 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6365 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6369 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6370 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6371 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6373 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6374 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6375 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6376 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6378 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6379 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6380 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6381 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6382 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6384 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6385 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6386 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6387 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6388 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6390 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6391 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6392 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6395 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6396 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6397 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6398 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6399 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6401 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6402 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6403 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6406 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6407 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6408 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6411 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6412 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6413 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6416 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6417 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6419 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6420 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6421 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6422 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6424 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6425 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6426 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6427 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6429 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6430 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6431 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6434 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6435 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6436 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6437 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6438 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6439 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6442 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6443 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
6444 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
6445 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
6446 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6448 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6449 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6450 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6451 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6452 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6454 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6455 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6456 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6459 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
6460 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6462 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6463 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6464 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6465 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6467 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6468 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6469 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6470 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6472 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6473 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6474 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6476 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6477 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6478 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6479 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6481 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6482 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6485 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6486 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6487 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6488 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6490 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6491 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6492 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6493 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6495 o Minor features (geoip):
6496 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6497 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6499 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6500 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6501 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6502 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6503 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6504 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6505 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6507 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6508 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6509 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6510 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6511 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6512 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6513 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6514 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6517 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6518 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6519 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6520 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6522 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6523 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6524 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6525 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6527 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6528 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6529 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6530 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6531 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6533 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6534 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6535 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6536 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6537 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6539 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6540 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6541 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6544 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6545 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6546 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6547 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6549 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6550 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6551 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6552 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6553 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6555 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6556 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6557 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6560 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6561 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6562 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6565 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6566 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6567 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6570 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6571 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6572 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6573 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6575 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6576 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6577 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6580 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6581 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6583 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6584 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6585 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6586 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6587 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6588 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6589 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6591 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6592 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6593 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6594 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6595 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6597 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6598 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6599 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6600 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6602 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6603 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6604 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6606 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6607 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6608 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6609 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6610 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6611 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6612 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6615 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6616 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6617 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6618 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6619 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6621 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6622 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6623 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6624 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6625 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6628 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6629 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6632 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
6633 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6634 compilation and portability fixes.
6636 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
6637 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
6638 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
6639 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
6640 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
6641 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
6642 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
6643 our anti-denial-of-service code.
6645 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
6646 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6648 o New system requirements:
6649 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
6650 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
6651 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
6652 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
6654 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
6655 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
6656 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
6657 To disable the module, the configure option
6658 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
6659 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
6661 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
6662 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
6663 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
6664 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
6665 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
6666 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
6667 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
6668 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
6669 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
6670 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
6671 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
6673 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
6674 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
6675 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
6676 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
6677 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
6678 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
6679 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
6680 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
6681 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
6682 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
6683 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
6684 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
6685 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
6686 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
6687 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
6688 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
6689 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
6690 Tor's uptime (26009).
6692 o Minor features (accounting):
6693 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
6694 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
6695 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
6696 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
6698 o Minor features (bug workaround):
6699 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6700 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6701 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6703 o Minor features (code quality):
6704 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
6705 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
6706 Closes ticket 25024.
6708 o Minor features (compatibility):
6709 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6710 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6711 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6712 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
6713 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
6714 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
6716 o Minor features (compilation):
6717 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6718 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6719 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6720 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6721 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6722 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6723 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6724 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6727 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
6728 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
6729 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
6730 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
6731 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
6732 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
6734 o Minor features (configuration):
6735 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
6736 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
6737 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
6738 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
6739 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
6741 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6742 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
6743 Implements ticket 27449.
6744 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
6745 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
6747 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6748 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6750 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6751 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6752 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
6753 Implements ticket 27275.
6754 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6755 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6756 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
6757 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
6758 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
6760 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
6761 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6764 o Minor features (control port):
6765 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
6766 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
6767 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
6768 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6769 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
6770 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
6771 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
6772 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
6773 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
6774 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
6776 o Minor features (controller):
6777 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6778 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6779 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6781 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6782 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
6783 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
6784 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
6785 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6786 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6787 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6789 o Minor features (directory authority):
6790 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
6791 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
6792 Closes ticket 23909.
6794 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
6795 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
6796 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
6797 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
6799 o Minor features (entry guards):
6800 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
6801 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
6803 o Minor features (geoip):
6804 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6805 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6807 o Minor features (performance):
6808 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
6809 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
6810 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
6811 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
6813 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
6814 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
6816 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6817 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6819 o Minor features (testing):
6820 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
6821 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
6823 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
6824 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
6825 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
6826 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
6827 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
6828 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
6830 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
6831 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
6832 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
6833 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
6834 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
6836 o Minor features (unit tests):
6837 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
6838 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
6839 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
6842 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
6843 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
6844 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
6845 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
6846 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
6847 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
6849 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6850 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
6851 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
6852 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
6854 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
6855 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
6856 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6857 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
6858 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
6860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6861 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6862 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6863 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6864 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6865 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6866 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6867 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6869 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6870 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6871 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6872 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6873 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
6874 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
6875 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6876 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
6877 Closes ticket 26245.
6878 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
6879 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
6880 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
6883 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6884 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6885 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6887 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6888 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6889 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6890 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6891 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6893 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6894 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
6895 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
6896 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
6897 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6898 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
6899 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
6900 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6901 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
6902 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
6903 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
6904 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6906 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6907 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6908 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6911 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6912 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6913 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6916 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
6917 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
6918 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6919 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
6920 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
6921 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
6924 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
6925 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
6926 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
6927 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
6928 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
6929 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
6930 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6932 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
6933 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6934 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6935 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6937 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6938 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6939 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6940 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6941 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6943 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6944 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6945 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6948 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6949 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6950 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6952 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6953 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6955 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
6956 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
6957 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
6958 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
6959 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6961 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6962 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6963 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6965 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6966 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6967 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6968 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
6969 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
6972 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
6973 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
6974 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
6975 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6977 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6978 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
6979 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
6980 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
6981 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
6982 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
6983 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
6985 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6986 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6988 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6989 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6990 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6991 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6992 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6994 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6995 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6996 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6997 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6998 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7000 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7001 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
7002 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
7003 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7005 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7006 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7007 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7008 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7011 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7012 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7013 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7014 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7015 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7016 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7017 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7018 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7019 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7020 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7022 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7023 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7024 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7025 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7026 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7027 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7028 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7030 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7031 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7032 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7033 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7034 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7036 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7037 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7038 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7041 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
7042 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
7043 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
7044 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
7045 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7047 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
7048 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7049 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7050 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7051 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7052 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7053 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7056 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7057 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7058 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7059 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7060 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7062 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7063 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7064 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7065 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7066 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7068 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7069 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7070 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7071 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7072 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7073 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7075 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
7076 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7077 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7079 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7080 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7081 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7082 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7083 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7084 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7085 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7086 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7088 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7089 confusing we renamed some functions and
7090 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7091 router_should_check_reachability() and
7092 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7093 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7094 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7095 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7096 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7098 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7099 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7101 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7102 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7103 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7104 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7105 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7106 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7107 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7108 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7109 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7110 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7111 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7112 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7113 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7114 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7115 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7116 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7117 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7118 Closes ticket 25766.
7119 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7120 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7121 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7122 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7123 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7124 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7125 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7126 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7127 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7128 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7129 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7130 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7131 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7132 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
7134 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
7135 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
7136 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
7137 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
7138 before. Closes ticket 26016.
7139 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
7140 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
7141 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
7142 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
7144 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
7145 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
7146 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
7147 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7149 o Deprecated features:
7150 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
7151 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
7152 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
7153 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
7154 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
7155 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
7158 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
7159 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
7160 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
7161 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
7162 24378 and proposal 290.
7163 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
7164 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
7165 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
7166 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
7167 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
7168 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
7169 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
7170 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
7171 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
7172 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
7173 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
7174 their local router. Closes 25409.
7175 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
7176 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
7177 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
7178 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
7179 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
7180 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
7181 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
7182 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
7183 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
7184 Closes ticket 25268.
7187 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
7188 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7189 bridge relays should upgrade.
7191 o Directory authority changes:
7192 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7193 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7194 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7197 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
7198 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7199 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7202 o Directory authority changes:
7203 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7204 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7205 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7207 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7208 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7209 Closes ticket 26343.
7211 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7212 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7213 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7214 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7215 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7217 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7218 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7219 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7221 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7222 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7223 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7224 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7226 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7227 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7228 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7230 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7231 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7232 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7233 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7234 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7235 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7237 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7238 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7239 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7240 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7242 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7243 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7244 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7247 o Minor features (geoip):
7248 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7249 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7251 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7252 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7253 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7254 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7255 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7257 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7258 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7259 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7261 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7262 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7263 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7264 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7265 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7266 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7267 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7268 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7271 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7272 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7273 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7274 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7275 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7276 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7278 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7279 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7280 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7281 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7282 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7284 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7285 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7286 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7287 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7288 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7290 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7291 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7292 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7295 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7296 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7297 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7299 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7300 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7301 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7302 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7304 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7305 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7306 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7307 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7308 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7309 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7310 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7312 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7313 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7314 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7315 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7318 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7319 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7320 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7322 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7323 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7324 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7326 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7327 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7328 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7329 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7332 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7333 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7334 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7335 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7338 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7339 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7341 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7342 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7343 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7346 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
7347 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7348 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7351 o Directory authority changes:
7352 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7353 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7354 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7356 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7357 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7358 Closes ticket 26343.
7360 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7361 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7362 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7363 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7364 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7366 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7367 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7368 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7369 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7371 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7372 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7373 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7374 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7375 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7376 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7378 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7379 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7380 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7383 o Minor features (geoip):
7384 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7385 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7387 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7388 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7389 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7390 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7391 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7393 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7394 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7395 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7397 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7398 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7399 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7400 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7403 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7404 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7405 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7406 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7407 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7408 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7410 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7411 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7412 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7413 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7414 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7416 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7417 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7418 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7421 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7422 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7423 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7425 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7426 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7427 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7428 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7430 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7431 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7432 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7434 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7435 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7436 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7439 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
7440 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7441 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
7443 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7444 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
7445 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
7446 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7448 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7449 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
7450 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
7453 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7454 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7455 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7458 o Minor features (geoip):
7459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7460 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7462 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7463 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7464 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7465 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7467 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7468 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7469 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7470 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7471 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7474 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7475 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7476 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7477 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7478 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7480 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7481 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
7482 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
7483 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7485 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7486 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7487 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7489 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7490 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7491 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7492 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7495 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7496 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7497 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7498 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7500 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7501 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7502 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7503 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7504 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7505 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7506 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7507 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7511 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
7512 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7513 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
7515 o Directory authority changes:
7516 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7517 Closes ticket 26343.
7519 o Minor features (geoip):
7520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7521 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7523 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7524 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7525 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7526 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7527 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7528 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7531 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7532 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7534 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7535 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7536 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7537 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7538 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7540 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7541 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7542 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7544 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7545 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7546 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7547 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7548 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7549 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7552 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
7553 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
7554 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7556 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
7557 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
7558 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
7559 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
7560 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
7561 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
7563 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
7564 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7566 o New system requirements:
7567 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
7568 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
7570 o Major features (embedding):
7571 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
7572 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
7573 Closes ticket 23684.
7574 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
7575 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
7576 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
7577 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
7578 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
7579 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
7581 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
7582 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
7583 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
7584 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
7586 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
7587 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
7588 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
7589 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
7590 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
7592 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
7593 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
7596 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
7597 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
7598 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
7599 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
7600 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
7601 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
7602 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
7604 o Major features (onion services):
7605 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
7606 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
7607 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
7608 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
7609 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
7611 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
7612 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
7613 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
7614 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
7615 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
7616 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7618 o Major features (relay):
7619 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
7620 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
7621 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
7622 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
7623 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
7625 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
7626 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
7627 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
7628 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
7629 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
7630 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
7631 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
7632 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
7634 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7635 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7636 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7637 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7638 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7640 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
7641 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7642 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7643 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7644 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7646 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7647 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7648 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7649 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7651 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
7652 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
7653 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
7654 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
7655 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
7656 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
7657 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
7658 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7660 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7661 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
7662 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
7663 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
7665 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7666 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7667 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7669 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
7670 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
7671 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
7672 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
7673 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
7674 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
7675 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
7677 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7678 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
7679 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
7680 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
7681 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7683 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7684 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7685 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7688 o Minor features (cleanup):
7689 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
7690 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
7692 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7693 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7694 Closes ticket 26006.
7696 o Minor features (config options):
7697 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
7698 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
7699 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
7702 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7703 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7704 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7706 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7707 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7708 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7709 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7710 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7711 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7713 o Minor features (defensive programming):
7714 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
7715 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
7716 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
7717 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
7718 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
7719 once. Part of ticket 24337.
7720 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
7721 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
7722 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
7724 o Minor features (directory authority):
7725 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
7726 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
7728 o Minor features (embedding):
7729 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
7730 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
7731 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
7732 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
7733 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
7734 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
7735 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
7736 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
7737 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
7738 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
7739 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
7740 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
7741 Closes ticket 23848.
7742 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
7743 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
7744 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
7746 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7747 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
7748 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
7749 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
7750 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
7751 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
7752 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
7753 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
7756 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
7757 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
7758 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
7759 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
7760 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
7761 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
7762 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
7764 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
7765 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
7766 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
7767 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
7768 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
7769 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
7770 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
7771 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
7772 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
7773 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
7774 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
7775 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
7777 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
7778 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
7779 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
7781 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
7782 Implements ticket 24791.
7784 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
7785 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
7786 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
7787 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
7788 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
7789 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
7791 o Minor features (geoip):
7792 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7793 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7795 o Minor features (heartbeat):
7796 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
7797 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
7800 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
7801 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
7802 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
7803 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
7804 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
7806 o Minor features (IPv6):
7807 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
7808 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
7809 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
7810 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
7811 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
7814 o Minor features (log messages):
7815 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
7816 information about memory usage from the different compression
7817 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
7818 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
7819 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
7820 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
7821 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
7823 o Minor features (logging):
7824 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
7825 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
7826 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
7829 o Minor features (performance):
7830 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
7831 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
7832 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
7833 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
7835 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
7836 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
7837 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
7838 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
7839 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
7840 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
7841 Implements ticket 24374.
7843 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
7844 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
7845 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
7846 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
7847 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
7849 o Minor features (performance, windows):
7850 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
7851 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
7852 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
7855 o Minor features (sandbox):
7856 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7857 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7858 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7860 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
7861 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
7862 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
7863 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
7864 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
7866 o Minor features (testing):
7867 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
7870 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
7871 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
7872 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
7873 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
7874 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
7875 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
7876 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
7877 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
7878 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
7880 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
7881 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
7882 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
7883 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
7884 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
7885 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
7886 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7887 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
7888 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
7891 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7892 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7893 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7894 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7896 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
7897 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
7898 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7900 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
7901 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
7902 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
7903 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
7904 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7906 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7907 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7908 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7911 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7912 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7913 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7914 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7916 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7917 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
7918 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
7919 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7920 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
7921 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
7922 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7924 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7925 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
7926 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
7927 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7929 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7930 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7931 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7932 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7933 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7935 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
7936 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
7937 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
7938 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
7941 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7942 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7943 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7944 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7945 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7947 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7948 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7949 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7950 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7951 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7954 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
7955 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
7956 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
7957 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
7958 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
7960 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
7961 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
7962 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
7965 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
7966 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
7967 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
7969 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
7970 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7971 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
7972 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
7973 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
7975 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
7976 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7977 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
7978 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7980 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
7981 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
7982 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7983 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
7984 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
7985 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7987 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7988 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
7989 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
7990 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
7992 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7993 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7994 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7996 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7997 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
7998 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
7999 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8001 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8002 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8003 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
8004 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
8007 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8008 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8009 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8010 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8011 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8012 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8015 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
8016 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8017 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8018 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8020 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8021 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
8022 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
8024 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8025 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
8026 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
8027 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
8028 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
8029 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8031 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8032 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8033 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8034 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8035 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8036 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8037 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8040 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8041 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8042 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8044 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8045 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8046 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8047 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8048 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8050 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8051 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8052 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8053 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8054 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8055 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8057 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
8058 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
8059 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
8060 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
8061 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
8062 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8063 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
8064 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
8065 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
8066 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
8067 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
8068 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8070 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8071 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8072 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8074 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8075 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8076 would call the Rust implementation of
8077 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8078 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8079 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8080 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8081 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8083 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
8084 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8085 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8086 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8088 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8089 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8090 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8091 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8093 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
8094 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8096 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8097 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8098 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8099 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8100 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8101 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8103 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8104 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8105 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8106 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
8107 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
8109 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8111 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8112 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8113 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8115 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
8117 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
8118 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
8119 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
8120 "aruna1234" and teor.
8121 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
8122 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
8123 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
8124 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
8126 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
8127 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
8128 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
8129 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
8130 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
8131 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
8132 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
8133 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
8134 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
8135 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
8137 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
8138 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
8141 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
8143 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
8144 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
8145 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
8146 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
8148 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
8149 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
8150 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
8151 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
8153 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
8154 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
8155 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
8156 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
8157 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
8159 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
8160 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
8161 adding very little except for unit test.
8163 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
8164 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
8165 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
8166 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
8168 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
8169 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
8170 const. Implements ticket 24489.
8172 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8173 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
8174 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
8176 o Documentation (man page):
8177 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
8178 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
8181 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
8182 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
8183 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
8187 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
8188 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
8191 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8192 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8194 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8195 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8197 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8200 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8201 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
8202 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8204 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
8205 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
8206 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
8207 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
8210 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8211 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8212 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8213 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8216 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8217 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8218 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8219 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8220 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8221 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8222 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8223 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8224 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8225 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8226 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8227 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8228 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8230 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8231 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8232 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8234 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8235 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8236 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8237 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8238 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8239 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8240 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8242 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8243 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8244 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8246 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8247 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8248 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8249 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8250 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8251 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8252 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8254 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8255 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8256 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8257 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8259 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8260 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8261 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8262 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8264 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8265 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8266 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8267 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8268 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8269 Closes ticket 24978.
8271 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8272 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8273 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8274 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8275 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8276 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8277 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8278 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8279 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8281 o Minor features (geoip):
8282 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8285 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8286 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8287 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8288 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8289 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8291 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8292 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8293 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8294 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8295 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8298 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8299 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8300 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8301 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8304 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8305 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8306 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8307 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8308 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8309 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8310 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8311 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8312 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8313 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8314 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
8318 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8319 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8321 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8322 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8323 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8326 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8327 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8328 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8329 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8330 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8331 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8332 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8334 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8335 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8336 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8337 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8338 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8339 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8340 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8341 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8342 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8345 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8346 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8347 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8348 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
8349 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
8350 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8352 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8353 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8354 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8355 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8357 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
8358 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8359 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8360 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8361 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8364 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8365 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8366 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8367 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8368 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8369 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8371 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8372 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8373 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8374 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8375 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8376 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8377 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8378 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8379 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8380 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8381 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8382 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8384 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8385 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8386 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8387 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8389 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8390 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8391 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8392 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8394 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8395 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8396 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8397 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8400 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
8401 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8402 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8403 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8404 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8406 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8407 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8409 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8410 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8412 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8413 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8414 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8417 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
8418 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8421 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8422 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8424 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8425 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8427 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8430 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8431 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
8432 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8434 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8435 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8436 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8437 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8440 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8441 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8442 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8443 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8444 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8445 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8446 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8447 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8448 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8449 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8450 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8451 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8452 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8454 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8455 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8456 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8457 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8458 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8459 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8460 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8461 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8462 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8464 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8465 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8466 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8467 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8468 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8469 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8470 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8472 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8473 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8474 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8475 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8477 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8478 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8479 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8480 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8481 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8482 Closes ticket 24978.
8484 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8485 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8486 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8487 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8489 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8490 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8491 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8492 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8493 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8494 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8495 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8496 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8497 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8499 o Minor features (geoip):
8500 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8503 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8504 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8505 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8507 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8508 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8509 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8510 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8511 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8513 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8514 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8515 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8516 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8517 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8519 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8520 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8521 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8522 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8523 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8526 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8527 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8528 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8530 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8531 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8532 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8535 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8536 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8537 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8538 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8539 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8540 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8541 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8543 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8544 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8545 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8546 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8547 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8550 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8551 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8552 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8553 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8554 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8555 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8557 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8558 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8559 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8560 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8562 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8563 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8564 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8565 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8566 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8567 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8568 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8569 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8570 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8571 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8572 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8573 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8575 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8576 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8577 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8578 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8581 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8582 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8583 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8584 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8585 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8587 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8588 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8590 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8591 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8594 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
8595 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
8596 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
8599 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8600 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8602 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
8603 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
8604 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
8605 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
8606 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
8607 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
8610 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8611 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8613 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8616 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
8617 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8618 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8619 the DoS mitigations.)
8621 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8622 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8623 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8624 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8627 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8628 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8629 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
8630 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8632 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8633 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8634 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8635 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8636 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8637 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8638 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8639 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8640 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8641 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8642 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8643 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8644 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8646 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8647 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8648 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8649 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8650 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8651 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8652 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8653 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8654 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8655 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8656 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8658 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8659 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8660 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8662 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8663 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8664 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8665 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8666 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8667 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8668 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8670 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8671 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8672 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8673 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8675 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8676 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8677 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8678 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8680 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8681 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8682 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8683 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8684 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8685 Closes ticket 24978.
8687 o Minor features (geoip):
8688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8691 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8692 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8693 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
8696 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8697 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8698 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8699 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8700 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8702 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8703 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8704 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8705 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8706 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8707 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8708 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8710 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8711 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8712 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8713 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8714 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8716 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8717 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8718 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8719 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8721 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8722 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8723 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8724 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8725 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8727 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8728 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8729 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8730 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8732 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8733 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8734 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8735 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8737 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8738 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8739 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8740 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8742 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8743 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8745 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8746 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8748 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8749 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8750 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8752 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8753 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8754 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8755 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8756 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8758 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8759 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8760 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8762 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8763 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8764 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8768 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
8769 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
8771 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
8772 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
8773 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
8774 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
8775 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
8776 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
8778 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
8779 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
8780 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
8781 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
8782 with the 0.2.9 series.
8784 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
8785 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8787 o Directory authority changes:
8788 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
8789 Closes ticket 23910.
8790 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
8791 Closes ticket 23592.
8792 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
8793 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
8794 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
8795 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
8796 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8799 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
8800 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
8801 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
8802 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
8803 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
8804 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
8807 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
8808 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
8810 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
8813 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
8816 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
8818 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
8820 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
8822 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
8823 they are 56 characters long, as in
8824 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
8826 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
8827 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
8828 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
8829 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
8830 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
8833 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
8834 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
8835 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
8836 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
8837 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
8838 options. For more information, see our blog post at
8839 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
8841 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
8842 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
8843 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
8844 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
8845 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
8846 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
8847 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
8848 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
8849 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
8850 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
8851 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
8852 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
8854 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
8855 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
8856 more information, see the design paper at
8857 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
8858 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
8859 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
8860 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
8862 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
8863 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8864 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8865 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8866 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8867 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8868 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8869 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8871 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
8872 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8873 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8874 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8877 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
8878 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8879 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8880 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8881 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8882 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8883 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8884 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8885 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8886 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8887 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8888 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8891 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
8892 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8893 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8894 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8895 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8896 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8897 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
8898 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
8899 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8901 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8902 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8903 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8904 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8905 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8906 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8907 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8908 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8909 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8910 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8911 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8914 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
8915 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
8916 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
8917 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
8918 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
8919 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
8920 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8922 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
8923 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
8924 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
8925 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
8926 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
8927 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
8930 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
8931 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
8932 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
8933 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8935 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
8936 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
8937 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
8938 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
8940 o Minor features (bridge):
8941 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
8942 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
8943 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
8944 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
8945 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
8946 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
8947 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
8948 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
8949 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
8950 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
8951 related to ticket 23080.
8953 o Minor features (bug detection):
8954 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
8955 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
8956 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
8958 o Minor features (build, compilation):
8959 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
8960 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
8961 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
8962 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
8963 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
8964 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
8965 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
8966 Closes ticket 23643.
8968 o Minor features (client):
8969 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
8970 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
8971 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
8972 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
8973 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
8974 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
8975 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
8976 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
8977 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
8978 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
8979 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
8980 Resolves ticket 23670.
8982 o Minor features (command line):
8983 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
8984 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
8985 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
8987 o Minor features (control port):
8988 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
8989 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
8990 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
8992 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
8993 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
8995 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
8996 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
8997 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
8998 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
8999 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
9000 Closes ticket 23237.
9001 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
9002 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9004 o Minor features (development support):
9005 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
9006 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
9007 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
9008 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
9009 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
9010 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
9012 o Minor features (directory authority):
9013 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9014 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9015 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9016 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9018 o Minor features (ed25519):
9019 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
9020 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
9021 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
9023 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
9024 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
9025 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
9027 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9028 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9029 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9030 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9031 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9032 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9033 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9034 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9035 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9037 o Minor features (geoip):
9038 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9041 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
9042 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
9043 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
9044 another program, regardless of the settings of
9045 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
9046 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
9047 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
9049 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9050 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9051 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9053 o Minor features (logging):
9054 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9056 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9057 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9059 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9060 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9061 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
9062 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
9063 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
9064 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
9065 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
9066 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
9067 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
9068 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
9070 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
9071 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
9073 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
9074 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
9075 the circuit identifier(s).
9076 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
9077 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
9079 o Minor features (portability):
9080 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9081 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9083 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
9084 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
9085 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
9086 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
9088 o Minor features (relay):
9089 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
9090 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
9091 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
9092 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
9093 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
9094 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
9095 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
9096 results. Closes ticket 22731.
9098 o Minor features (relay statistics):
9099 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9100 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9101 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9103 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
9104 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9105 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9106 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9107 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9109 o Minor features (robustness):
9110 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
9111 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
9113 o Minor features (startup, safety):
9114 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
9115 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
9118 o Minor features (static analysis):
9119 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
9120 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
9123 o Minor features (testing):
9124 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9125 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9126 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
9127 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
9129 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
9130 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
9131 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
9132 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
9133 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
9135 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9136 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9137 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9138 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9139 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9142 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9143 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
9144 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
9147 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
9148 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
9149 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
9150 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
9151 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9152 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
9153 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
9154 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
9155 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9156 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
9157 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
9158 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
9159 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9161 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
9162 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
9163 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
9164 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9166 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
9167 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9168 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9169 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9170 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
9171 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
9172 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
9173 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
9174 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9175 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9176 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9177 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
9178 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
9179 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9180 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
9181 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9182 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9184 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
9185 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
9186 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
9187 Coverity as CID 1415728.
9189 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9190 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
9191 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
9192 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9194 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
9195 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
9196 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
9197 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
9198 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
9199 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
9200 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
9201 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9203 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9204 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
9205 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
9206 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
9207 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9208 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
9209 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
9210 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
9211 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
9212 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
9213 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
9214 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
9215 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
9216 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
9219 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
9220 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9221 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9224 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
9225 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
9226 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
9227 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
9229 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9230 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9231 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9234 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
9235 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
9236 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
9237 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9239 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
9240 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9241 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9242 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9243 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9244 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9245 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9246 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9247 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9250 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9251 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
9252 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
9253 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
9254 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9256 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
9257 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
9258 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
9259 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
9260 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
9261 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
9263 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
9264 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
9267 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9268 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
9269 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9270 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
9271 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
9272 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9274 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
9275 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
9276 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
9277 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9279 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
9280 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9281 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9282 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9283 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9284 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9286 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
9287 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
9288 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
9289 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
9290 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
9291 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
9292 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
9295 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
9296 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
9297 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
9298 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9300 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9301 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9302 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9303 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9304 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9305 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
9306 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
9307 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9308 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
9309 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
9311 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
9312 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
9313 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
9315 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
9316 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
9317 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
9319 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
9320 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9321 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
9322 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
9323 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
9324 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
9327 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9328 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9329 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9330 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9331 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9333 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
9334 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
9335 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9337 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9338 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9339 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9340 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9341 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9344 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9345 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9346 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9347 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9348 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9349 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9351 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9352 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
9353 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
9354 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
9355 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9356 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9357 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9359 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
9360 only fetch the service descriptor once.
9361 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9362 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9363 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9364 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
9365 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
9366 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
9367 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9369 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9370 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9371 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9372 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9373 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9374 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9375 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9376 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9377 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9378 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9379 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9380 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9382 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9383 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
9384 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9385 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9386 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9387 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9390 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9391 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
9392 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
9393 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
9394 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9395 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9396 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9397 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9398 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9399 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9400 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9401 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9403 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9404 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
9405 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9406 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
9407 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
9408 Closes ticket 24109.
9409 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
9410 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9411 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
9412 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
9414 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9415 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9417 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
9418 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
9419 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
9420 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
9421 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
9422 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
9423 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
9424 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9425 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
9426 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
9427 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9429 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
9430 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
9431 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
9432 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9434 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9435 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
9436 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
9438 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
9439 function from the general code to handle channel state
9440 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
9441 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
9442 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
9443 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
9444 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
9445 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
9446 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
9447 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
9449 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
9450 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
9452 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
9453 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
9454 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
9455 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
9456 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9457 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
9458 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
9459 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
9460 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
9461 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
9462 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
9463 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
9465 o Deprecated features:
9466 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
9467 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
9468 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
9469 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
9470 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
9471 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
9475 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
9476 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
9477 section. Closes ticket 24254.
9478 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
9479 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
9480 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
9481 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
9482 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
9483 Closes ticket 18736.
9484 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
9485 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
9486 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
9487 Closes ticket 15645.
9488 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
9489 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
9490 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
9491 file. Closes ticket 21148.
9494 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
9495 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
9496 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
9497 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
9498 Closes ticket 21031.
9499 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
9500 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
9503 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
9504 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
9505 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9506 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
9508 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9509 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9510 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9511 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9512 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9513 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9514 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9515 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9516 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9517 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9518 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9520 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9521 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9522 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9523 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9524 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9525 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9526 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9529 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9530 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9531 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9532 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9533 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9535 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9536 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9537 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9538 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9539 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9540 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9541 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9542 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9543 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9545 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9546 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9547 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9548 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9549 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9550 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9553 o Minor features (bridge):
9554 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9555 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9556 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9557 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9560 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9561 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9564 o Minor features (geoip):
9565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9568 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9569 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9570 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9571 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9572 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9574 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9575 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9576 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9578 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9579 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9580 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9581 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9582 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9583 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9585 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9586 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9587 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9590 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9591 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9592 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9593 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9594 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9597 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
9598 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9599 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9600 to another of the releases coming out today.
9602 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9603 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9604 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9606 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9607 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9608 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9609 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9610 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9611 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9612 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9613 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9614 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9615 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9616 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9618 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9619 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9620 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9621 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9622 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9623 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9624 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9627 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9628 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9629 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9630 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9631 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9633 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9634 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9635 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9636 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9637 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9638 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9639 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9640 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9641 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9643 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9644 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9645 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9646 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9647 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9648 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9651 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9652 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9653 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9654 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9655 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9656 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9658 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9659 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9660 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9661 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9662 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9665 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9666 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9669 o Minor features (geoip):
9670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9673 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9674 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9675 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9676 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9677 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9680 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9681 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9683 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9684 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9685 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9686 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9687 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9688 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9690 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9691 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9692 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9693 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9694 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9696 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9697 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9698 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9701 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
9702 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9703 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9704 to another of the releases coming out today.
9706 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9707 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9708 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9709 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9710 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9711 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9714 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9715 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9716 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9717 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9718 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9719 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9720 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9721 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9722 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9723 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9724 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9726 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9727 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9728 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9729 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9730 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9731 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9732 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9735 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9736 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9737 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9738 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9739 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9741 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9742 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9743 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9744 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9745 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9746 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9748 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9749 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9750 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9751 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9752 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9755 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9756 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9759 o Minor features (geoip):
9760 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9763 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9764 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9765 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9766 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9767 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9768 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9770 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9771 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9772 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9773 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9774 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9776 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9777 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9778 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9780 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9781 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9782 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9783 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9784 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9785 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9787 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9788 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9789 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9790 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9791 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9793 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9794 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9795 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9798 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
9799 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9800 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9801 to another of the releases coming out today.
9803 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9804 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
9805 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9807 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9808 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9809 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9810 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9811 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9812 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9813 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9814 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9815 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9816 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9817 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9818 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9819 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9820 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9821 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9824 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9825 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9826 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9827 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9828 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9830 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9831 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
9832 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
9833 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
9834 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
9837 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9838 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9839 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9840 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9841 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9844 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9845 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9848 o Minor features (geoip):
9849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9852 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9853 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9854 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9857 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
9858 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9859 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9860 to another of the releases coming out today.
9862 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9863 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9864 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9866 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9867 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9868 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9869 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9870 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9871 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9872 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9873 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9874 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9875 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9876 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9877 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9878 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9879 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9880 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9883 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9884 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9885 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9886 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9887 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9888 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9890 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9891 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9892 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9893 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9894 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9897 o Minor features (geoip):
9898 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9902 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
9903 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9904 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9906 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9907 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9908 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9910 o Directory authority changes:
9911 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9912 Closes ticket 23910.
9913 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9914 Closes ticket 23592.
9916 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9917 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9918 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9919 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9920 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9922 o Minor features (geoip):
9923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9926 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9927 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9928 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9929 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9930 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9931 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9932 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9933 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9934 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9936 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9937 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9938 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9939 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9940 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9941 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9942 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9943 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9944 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9947 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
9948 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9949 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9950 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9952 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9953 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9954 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9956 o Directory authority changes:
9957 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9958 Closes ticket 23910.
9959 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9960 Closes ticket 23592.
9962 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9963 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9964 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9965 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9967 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9968 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9969 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9970 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9971 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9973 o Minor features (geoip):
9974 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9978 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
9979 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9980 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9981 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9983 o Directory authority changes:
9984 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9985 Closes ticket 23910.
9986 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9987 Closes ticket 23592.
9989 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9990 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9991 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9992 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9994 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9995 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9996 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9997 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9998 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10000 o Minor features (geoip):
10001 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10004 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10005 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10006 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10007 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10008 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10009 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10010 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10011 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10014 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10015 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10016 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10018 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10019 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10020 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10021 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10022 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10023 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10024 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10027 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10028 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10029 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10030 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10032 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10033 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10034 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10036 o Directory authority changes:
10037 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10038 Closes ticket 23910.
10039 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10040 Closes ticket 23592.
10042 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10043 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10044 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10045 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10047 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10048 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10049 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10050 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10051 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10053 o Minor features (geoip):
10054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10057 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10058 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10059 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10060 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10061 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10062 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10063 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10064 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10067 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10068 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10069 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10070 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10072 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10073 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10074 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10076 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10077 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10078 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10079 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10080 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10081 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10082 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10085 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10086 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10087 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10088 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10089 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10091 o Directory authority changes:
10092 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10093 Closes ticket 23910.
10094 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10095 Closes ticket 23592.
10097 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10098 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10099 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10100 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10102 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10103 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10104 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10105 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10106 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10108 o Minor features (geoip):
10109 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10113 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10114 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10115 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10117 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10118 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10119 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10122 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10123 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10124 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10126 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10127 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10128 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10129 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10131 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10132 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10133 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10135 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10136 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10137 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10141 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
10142 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10145 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10146 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10147 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10148 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10150 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10151 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
10152 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
10153 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
10155 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10156 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10157 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10158 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10159 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10162 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10165 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10166 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10167 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10170 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10171 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10172 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10173 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10174 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10175 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10176 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10177 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10178 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10180 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10181 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10182 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10183 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10184 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10185 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10186 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10187 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10188 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10191 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
10192 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10195 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10196 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10197 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10198 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10200 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10201 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10202 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10203 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10204 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10205 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10206 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10208 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10209 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10210 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10211 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10213 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10214 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10215 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10217 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10218 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10219 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10220 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10222 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10223 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10224 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10225 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10226 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10228 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10229 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10230 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10231 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10233 o Minor features (geoip):
10234 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10237 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10238 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10239 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10240 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10242 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10243 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10244 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10245 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
10246 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10247 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
10248 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
10249 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10251 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10252 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
10253 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10256 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10257 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10260 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10261 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10262 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10263 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
10264 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10266 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10267 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10268 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10269 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10270 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10271 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10273 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10274 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10275 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10276 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10277 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10278 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10279 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10280 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10281 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10283 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10284 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10285 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10286 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10288 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10289 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10290 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10292 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10293 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10294 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10295 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10296 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10298 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10299 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10300 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10303 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10304 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10305 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10306 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10307 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10309 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10310 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10311 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10312 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10313 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10314 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10315 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10316 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10317 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10320 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
10321 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
10324 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10325 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10326 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10327 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10329 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10330 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10331 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10332 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10335 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10339 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10340 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10342 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10343 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10344 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10345 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10346 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10348 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10349 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10350 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10351 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10353 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10354 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10355 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10357 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10358 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10359 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10360 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10363 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
10364 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10366 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
10367 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
10368 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
10369 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
10370 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
10371 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
10372 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
10374 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
10375 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
10376 disabled. For more information, see
10377 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10379 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10380 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10381 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10382 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10383 with the 0.2.9 series.
10385 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
10386 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10388 o New dependencies:
10389 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
10390 pkg-config tool at build time.
10392 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
10393 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
10394 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
10395 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10396 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
10398 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
10399 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10400 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10401 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10402 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10403 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10404 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10405 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10406 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10408 o Major features (directory protocol):
10409 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
10410 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
10411 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
10412 now request these documents when available. When both client and
10413 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
10414 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
10415 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
10416 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
10417 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
10418 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
10419 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
10420 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
10421 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
10422 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
10423 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
10424 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
10425 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
10427 o Major features (experimental):
10428 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
10429 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
10430 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
10431 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
10432 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
10433 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
10434 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
10436 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
10437 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
10438 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
10439 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
10440 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
10441 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
10444 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
10445 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
10446 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
10447 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
10448 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
10449 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
10450 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
10451 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
10452 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
10453 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
10454 multiples of 10000.
10456 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
10457 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
10458 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
10459 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10460 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
10461 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
10462 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
10465 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
10466 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
10467 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
10468 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
10469 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
10470 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
10472 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
10473 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
10474 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
10475 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
10476 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
10477 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
10478 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
10479 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
10480 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10481 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
10482 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
10483 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
10484 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
10485 Otherwise it is at info.
10487 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
10488 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
10489 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
10490 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10491 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
10492 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
10493 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10495 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
10496 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10497 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10498 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10500 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
10501 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10502 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10503 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10504 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10506 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
10507 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
10508 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
10509 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
10510 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
10511 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
10512 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
10515 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
10516 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
10517 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
10518 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
10519 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
10520 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
10521 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
10522 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10523 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
10524 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
10525 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
10526 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
10527 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
10530 o Minor features (security, windows):
10531 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10532 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10533 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10534 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10535 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10537 o Minor features (bridge authority):
10538 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
10539 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
10541 o Minor features (code style):
10542 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10543 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10544 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10546 o Minor features (config options):
10547 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
10548 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
10549 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
10550 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
10551 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
10552 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
10553 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
10554 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
10556 o Minor features (controller):
10557 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
10558 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
10560 o Minor features (defaults):
10561 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
10562 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
10563 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
10564 can. Closes ticket 21407.
10565 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
10566 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
10567 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
10568 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
10569 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
10570 Closes ticket 21641.
10572 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10573 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
10574 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
10575 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
10578 o Minor features (diagnostic):
10579 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
10580 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
10581 attempt for bug 23105.
10582 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
10583 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
10584 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
10585 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
10586 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
10587 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
10588 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
10590 o Minor features (directory authority):
10591 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
10592 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
10593 Closes ticket 22348.
10595 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
10596 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
10597 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
10598 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
10599 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
10602 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10603 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
10604 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
10605 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
10606 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
10607 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
10608 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
10610 o Minor features (geoip):
10611 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10614 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
10615 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
10616 introduction points than specified in
10617 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
10618 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
10619 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
10620 21594; closes ticket 21622.
10621 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
10622 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
10623 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
10624 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
10626 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10627 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
10628 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
10629 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
10630 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
10631 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
10632 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
10633 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
10634 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
10635 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
10637 o Minor features (logging):
10638 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
10639 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
10640 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
10641 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
10644 o Minor features (performance):
10645 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
10646 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
10648 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
10649 speed some controller functions.
10651 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
10652 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
10653 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
10654 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
10656 o Minor features (relay, performance):
10657 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
10658 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
10659 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
10660 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
10661 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
10664 o Minor features (safety):
10665 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
10666 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
10667 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
10670 o Minor features (testing):
10671 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
10673 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
10674 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
10675 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
10676 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
10677 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
10678 on. Closes ticket 21439.
10679 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
10680 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
10681 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
10682 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
10683 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
10684 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
10685 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
10686 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
10687 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
10688 21507. Partially implements 21470.
10690 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
10691 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10692 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10693 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10695 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10696 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
10697 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
10698 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
10701 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
10702 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
10703 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10704 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10705 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10706 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10707 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10708 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10711 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10712 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10713 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10715 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10716 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
10717 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
10718 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
10719 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
10720 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10722 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10723 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
10724 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10726 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
10727 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
10728 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
10729 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
10730 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
10731 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
10732 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10733 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
10734 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
10735 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
10736 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
10737 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
10738 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
10739 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
10741 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10742 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10743 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10744 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10745 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10746 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
10747 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10748 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
10749 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
10750 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
10751 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
10752 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10754 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10755 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
10756 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
10758 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
10759 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10760 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10761 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10762 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10763 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10765 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
10766 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
10767 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
10768 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
10769 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10770 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10771 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10772 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10773 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10774 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10775 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10776 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10778 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10779 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10780 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10781 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10782 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10783 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10784 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10785 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10787 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
10788 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
10789 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10790 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
10791 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
10792 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10794 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
10795 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
10796 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
10799 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
10800 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
10801 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
10802 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
10803 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
10805 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10806 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
10807 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10808 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
10809 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
10810 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10811 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
10812 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10813 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
10814 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
10815 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10817 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
10818 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10819 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10820 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10822 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10823 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
10824 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
10825 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
10826 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
10827 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
10828 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
10829 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
10830 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
10831 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
10832 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10833 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
10834 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
10835 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10837 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
10838 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
10839 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
10840 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
10841 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
10842 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
10843 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10845 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10846 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10847 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10848 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10849 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10850 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10851 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10853 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10854 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
10855 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
10856 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
10857 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
10858 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
10859 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10860 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
10861 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
10862 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
10863 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10864 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
10865 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
10867 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
10868 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
10869 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
10870 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
10872 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
10873 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10874 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10876 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10877 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10878 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10879 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10881 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10882 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
10883 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
10884 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10886 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10887 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
10888 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10889 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
10890 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
10891 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10892 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
10893 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
10894 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
10896 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
10897 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
10898 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
10899 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
10900 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
10901 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
10902 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
10905 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
10906 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
10907 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
10908 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
10909 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
10910 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10912 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10913 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10914 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10915 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
10916 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
10917 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10918 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
10919 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10920 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
10921 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
10922 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
10923 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
10924 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
10925 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10926 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
10927 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
10930 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
10931 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10932 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10933 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10934 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10936 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
10937 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10938 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10939 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10940 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10941 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10942 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10944 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
10945 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
10946 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10948 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10949 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
10950 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
10951 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
10952 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
10953 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
10954 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
10955 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
10956 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
10957 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
10958 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
10959 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
10961 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
10962 Resolves ticket 22213.
10963 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
10964 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
10965 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
10966 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
10967 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
10968 types. Closes ticket 21651.
10969 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
10970 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
10973 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
10975 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
10976 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
10978 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
10979 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
10980 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
10982 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
10984 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
10985 Closes ticket 21873.
10986 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
10987 Closes ticket 21151.
10988 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
10989 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
10991 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
10992 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10993 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
10994 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
10996 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
10997 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
10998 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
10999 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
11000 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
11001 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
11002 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
11003 default behavior is now unavailable.
11004 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
11005 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
11006 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
11007 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
11008 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
11009 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
11010 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
11012 o Removed features (tools):
11013 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
11014 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
11015 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
11016 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
11017 required. Closes ticket 21842.
11020 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11021 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11022 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11023 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11025 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11026 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11027 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11028 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11029 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11030 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11031 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11032 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11033 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11035 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11036 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11037 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11038 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11040 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11041 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11042 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11043 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11044 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11046 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11047 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11050 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11051 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11052 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11053 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11055 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11056 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11057 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11058 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11059 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11060 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11061 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11062 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11065 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11066 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11067 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11070 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11071 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11072 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11073 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11074 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11075 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11077 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11078 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11079 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11080 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11083 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11084 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11086 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11087 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11088 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11091 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11092 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11093 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11094 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11095 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11098 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11101 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11102 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11103 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11104 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11105 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11106 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11108 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11109 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11110 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11111 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11113 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11114 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11115 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11116 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11118 o Minor features (geoip):
11119 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11122 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11123 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11124 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11125 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11126 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11128 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11129 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11130 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11131 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11132 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11134 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11135 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11136 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11137 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11138 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11139 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11140 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11141 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11142 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11145 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
11146 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11147 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11148 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11149 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11151 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11152 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11153 bugfixes described below.
11155 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11156 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11157 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11158 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11159 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11160 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11161 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11162 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11165 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11166 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11167 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11168 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11169 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11170 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11171 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11174 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11175 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11176 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11177 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11178 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11179 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11180 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11181 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11182 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11183 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11184 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11185 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11186 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11189 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11190 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
11191 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
11194 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11195 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11196 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11197 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11198 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11200 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11201 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11202 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11204 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11205 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11206 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11208 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11209 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11210 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11211 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11212 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11213 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11214 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11216 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
11218 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11219 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11220 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11223 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
11224 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11225 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11226 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11227 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11228 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11230 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
11231 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11232 bugfixes described below.
11234 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11235 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11236 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11237 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11238 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11241 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11242 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11243 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11244 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11245 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11246 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11247 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11250 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11251 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11252 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11253 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11254 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11256 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11257 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
11258 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11259 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11260 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11261 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11262 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11264 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
11265 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
11266 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
11267 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
11268 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
11270 o Minor features (geoip):
11271 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11274 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
11275 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11276 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11277 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11279 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11280 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11281 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11283 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11284 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11285 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11286 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11287 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11290 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11291 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11292 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11293 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11294 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11296 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11297 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11298 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11299 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11300 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11301 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11303 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11304 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11305 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11306 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11309 o Minor features (geoip):
11310 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11313 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11314 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11315 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11316 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11317 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11319 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11320 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11321 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11323 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
11324 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11325 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11326 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11327 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11328 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11330 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11331 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11332 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11333 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11336 o Minor features (geoip):
11337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11340 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11341 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11342 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11345 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
11346 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11347 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11348 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11349 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11350 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11352 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11353 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11354 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11355 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11358 o Minor features (geoip):
11359 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11362 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11363 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11364 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11366 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
11367 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11368 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11369 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11370 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11371 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11373 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11374 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11375 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11376 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11379 o Minor features (geoip):
11380 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11383 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11384 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11385 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11387 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
11388 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11389 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11390 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11391 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11392 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11394 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11395 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11396 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11397 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11400 o Minor features (geoip):
11401 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11404 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11405 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11406 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11409 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
11410 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
11411 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
11412 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
11413 clients are not affected.
11415 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
11416 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
11417 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
11418 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
11419 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
11420 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11423 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11426 o Minor features (future-proofing):
11427 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
11428 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11429 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11430 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11431 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11432 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11434 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11435 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11436 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11437 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11438 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11442 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
11443 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
11445 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
11446 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
11447 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
11448 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
11449 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
11450 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
11453 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
11454 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
11456 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
11457 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
11458 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
11459 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
11460 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
11462 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
11463 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11465 o Major features (directory authority, security):
11466 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
11467 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
11468 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
11470 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
11471 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
11472 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
11473 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
11474 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
11477 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
11478 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
11479 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
11480 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
11481 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
11482 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
11483 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
11484 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
11487 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
11488 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
11489 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
11490 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
11491 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
11492 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
11493 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
11494 15056; part of proposal 220.
11495 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
11496 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
11497 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
11498 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
11499 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
11500 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
11501 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
11502 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
11503 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
11506 o Major features (security):
11507 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11508 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11509 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
11510 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
11511 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
11512 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
11514 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
11515 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
11516 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
11517 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
11518 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
11519 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
11520 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
11521 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
11522 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
11523 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
11524 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11526 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
11527 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11528 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11529 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11531 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11532 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
11533 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
11534 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
11537 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
11538 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
11539 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11541 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
11542 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
11543 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
11544 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
11545 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
11546 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
11547 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11549 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
11550 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11551 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11552 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11553 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11554 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11555 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11556 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
11557 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
11558 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
11559 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
11560 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
11561 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
11562 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
11563 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
11565 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
11566 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
11567 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
11568 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
11569 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11571 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
11572 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
11573 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
11574 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
11575 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
11576 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
11577 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11579 o Minor feature (client):
11580 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
11581 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
11583 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
11584 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
11585 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
11586 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
11588 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
11589 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
11590 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
11592 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
11593 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
11594 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
11595 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
11596 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
11598 o Minor features (controller):
11599 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
11600 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
11601 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
11602 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
11605 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
11606 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
11607 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
11608 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
11609 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
11610 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
11611 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
11612 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
11613 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
11614 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
11616 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
11617 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
11618 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
11621 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11622 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
11623 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
11625 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
11626 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
11627 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11629 o Minor features (directory authority):
11630 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
11631 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
11632 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
11633 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
11634 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
11636 o Minor features (directory cache):
11637 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
11638 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
11641 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
11642 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
11643 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
11644 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
11646 o Minor features (entry guards):
11647 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
11648 break regression tests.
11649 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
11650 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
11652 o Minor features (fallback directories):
11653 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
11654 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
11655 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
11656 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
11657 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
11658 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
11659 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
11660 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
11661 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
11662 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
11663 Closes ticket 20539.
11664 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
11665 Closes ticket 20822.
11666 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
11668 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
11669 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
11670 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
11671 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
11672 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
11674 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
11675 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
11676 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
11677 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
11678 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
11681 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
11682 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
11683 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
11684 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
11686 o Minor features (geoip):
11687 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11690 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
11691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11694 o Minor features (infrastructure):
11695 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
11696 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
11698 o Minor features (linting):
11699 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
11700 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
11702 o Minor features (logging):
11703 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
11704 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
11706 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
11707 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
11708 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
11710 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
11711 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
11713 o Minor features (relay):
11714 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
11715 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
11716 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
11717 Written by Michael Sonntag.
11719 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
11720 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
11721 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
11724 o Minor features (testing):
11725 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
11726 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
11727 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
11729 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
11730 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
11731 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
11732 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
11733 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
11734 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
11735 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11736 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11737 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11739 o Minor bugfix (logging):
11740 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
11741 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
11742 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
11743 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
11746 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
11747 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
11748 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
11749 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
11751 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11752 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
11753 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
11756 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
11757 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
11758 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
11760 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11761 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
11762 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
11763 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11764 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
11765 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
11766 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
11768 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11769 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
11770 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
11772 o Minor bugfixes (config):
11773 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
11774 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
11775 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
11776 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11778 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11779 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
11780 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11781 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
11782 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
11783 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
11785 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
11786 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
11787 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
11788 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
11789 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
11790 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
11791 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
11794 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
11795 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
11796 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
11797 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
11798 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
11800 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
11801 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
11802 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
11803 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11805 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
11806 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
11807 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
11808 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
11809 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11811 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
11812 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
11813 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
11814 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
11815 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11817 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
11818 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
11819 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
11820 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11821 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
11822 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
11823 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
11826 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
11827 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
11828 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
11829 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
11830 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11831 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
11832 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
11833 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
11834 on all recent tor versions.
11836 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11837 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
11838 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
11840 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
11841 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
11842 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11844 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11845 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
11846 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
11847 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
11848 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
11849 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
11850 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
11851 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
11852 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11854 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11855 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
11856 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
11857 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
11858 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11859 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
11860 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
11861 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11862 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
11863 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
11864 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
11867 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11868 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
11869 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
11870 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11871 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
11872 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
11873 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
11874 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11875 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
11876 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
11877 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
11880 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
11881 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
11882 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11883 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
11884 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
11885 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
11886 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
11887 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
11889 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
11890 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
11891 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
11894 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11895 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
11896 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11898 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11899 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
11900 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
11901 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
11904 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
11905 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
11906 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
11907 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
11909 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
11910 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11912 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11913 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
11914 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
11916 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
11917 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
11918 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
11919 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
11921 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11922 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
11923 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
11924 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
11925 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11926 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
11927 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
11928 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11930 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
11931 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
11932 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
11933 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11934 Patch by "junglefowl".
11936 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11937 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
11938 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
11939 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
11940 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11942 o Minor bugfixes (util):
11943 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
11944 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
11945 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
11946 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
11948 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
11949 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
11950 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
11953 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
11954 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
11955 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
11956 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
11958 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11959 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
11960 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
11961 Closes ticket 19858.
11962 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
11963 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
11964 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
11965 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
11966 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
11967 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
11968 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
11969 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
11970 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
11971 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
11972 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
11973 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
11974 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
11975 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
11976 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
11977 redundant with the similar structures used in the
11978 channel abstraction.
11979 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
11980 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
11981 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
11982 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
11983 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
11984 replaced with code automatically generated by the
11987 o Documentation (formatting):
11988 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
11989 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
11991 o Documentation (man page):
11992 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
11993 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
11996 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
11997 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
11999 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
12000 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
12001 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
12003 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
12004 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
12005 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
12006 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12007 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12008 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
12009 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
12010 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12011 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12012 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12014 o Removed features:
12015 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
12016 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
12017 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
12019 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
12020 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
12021 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
12024 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
12025 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
12026 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
12028 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
12029 from "overcaffeinated".
12030 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
12031 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
12034 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12035 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12036 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12037 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12038 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12041 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12042 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12043 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12045 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12046 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12047 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12048 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12049 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12050 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12051 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12053 o Minor features (geoip):
12054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12058 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12059 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12060 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12061 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12064 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12065 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12066 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12068 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12069 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12071 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12072 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12073 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12075 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12076 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12077 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12080 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12081 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12082 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12083 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12084 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12085 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12086 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12087 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12088 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12090 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12091 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12092 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12093 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12094 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12095 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12096 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12097 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12098 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12099 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12100 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12101 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12102 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12104 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12105 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12106 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12107 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12108 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12110 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12111 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12112 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12114 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12115 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12116 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12117 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12118 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12119 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12120 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12123 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12124 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12125 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12126 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12127 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12128 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12129 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12131 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12132 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12133 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12134 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12137 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12138 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12139 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12140 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12142 o Minor features (geoip):
12143 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12147 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
12148 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12149 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
12150 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12153 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12154 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12155 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12157 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12158 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12160 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12161 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12162 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12164 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12165 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12166 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12169 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12170 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12171 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12172 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12173 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12174 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12175 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12176 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12177 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12179 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12180 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12181 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12182 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12183 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12184 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12185 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12186 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12187 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12189 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12190 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12191 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12192 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12193 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12195 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12196 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12197 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12198 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12199 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12202 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12203 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12204 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12205 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12206 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12208 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12209 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12210 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12212 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12213 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12214 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12215 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12216 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12217 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12220 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12221 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12222 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12223 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12224 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12225 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12226 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12229 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12230 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12231 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12232 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12233 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12234 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12235 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12237 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12238 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12239 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12240 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12243 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12244 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12245 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12246 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12248 o Minor features (geoip):
12249 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12252 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12253 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12254 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12257 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
12258 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12259 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
12260 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12263 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12264 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
12265 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12267 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12268 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12270 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12271 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12272 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12274 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12275 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12276 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12279 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12280 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12281 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12282 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12283 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12284 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12285 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12286 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12287 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12289 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12290 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12291 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12292 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12293 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12294 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12295 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12296 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12297 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12299 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12300 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12301 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12302 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12303 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12305 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12306 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12307 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12308 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12309 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12312 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12313 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12314 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12315 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12316 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12318 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12319 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12320 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12322 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12323 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12324 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12325 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12326 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12327 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12330 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12331 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12332 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12333 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12334 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12335 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12336 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12339 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12340 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12341 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12342 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12343 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12344 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12345 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12347 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12348 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12349 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12350 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12353 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12354 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12355 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12356 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12358 o Minor features (geoip):
12359 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12362 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12363 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12364 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12366 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
12367 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12368 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12369 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12370 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12371 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12373 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12374 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12375 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12379 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
12380 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12381 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
12382 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12385 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
12386 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12387 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12389 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12390 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12392 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12393 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12394 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12396 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12397 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12398 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12401 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12402 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12403 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12404 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12405 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12406 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12407 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12408 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12409 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12411 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12412 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12413 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12414 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12415 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12416 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12417 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12418 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12419 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12421 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12422 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12423 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12424 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12425 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12428 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12429 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12430 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12431 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12432 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12434 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12435 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12436 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12438 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12439 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12440 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12441 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12442 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12443 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12446 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12447 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12448 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12449 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12450 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12451 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12452 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12455 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12456 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12457 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12458 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12459 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12460 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12461 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12463 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12464 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12465 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12466 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12469 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12470 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12471 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12472 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12474 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12475 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12476 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12477 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12479 o Minor features (geoip):
12480 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12483 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12484 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12485 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12487 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12488 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12489 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12493 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
12494 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
12495 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
12496 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
12498 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
12499 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
12500 least January of 2020.
12502 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12503 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12504 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12505 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12508 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12509 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12510 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12511 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12512 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12513 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12514 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12516 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12517 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12518 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12519 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12520 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12521 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12522 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12524 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12525 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12526 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12528 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12529 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12530 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12532 o Minor features (geoip):
12533 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12536 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12537 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12538 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12540 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12541 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12543 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12544 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12545 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12547 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12548 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12549 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12550 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12551 Patch by "junglefowl".
12554 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
12555 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
12556 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
12557 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
12558 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
12559 version should upgrade.
12561 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
12562 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
12564 o Major bugfixes (security):
12565 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12566 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
12567 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
12568 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
12569 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
12570 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12572 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
12573 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12574 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12575 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12576 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12577 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12578 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12579 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12580 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12581 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12582 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12584 o Minor features (geoip):
12585 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12588 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12589 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12590 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12591 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12593 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12594 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12597 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
12598 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
12599 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
12600 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
12601 become available for their systems.
12603 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
12606 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
12607 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
12609 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
12610 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12611 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12612 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12613 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12614 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12615 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12616 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12617 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12619 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
12620 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
12621 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
12622 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
12623 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
12625 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
12626 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12630 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
12631 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
12633 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
12634 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
12635 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
12636 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
12637 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
12638 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
12639 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
12640 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
12642 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
12644 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
12645 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
12646 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
12647 become available for their systems.
12649 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
12650 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12652 o New system requirements:
12653 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
12654 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
12655 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
12656 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
12657 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
12658 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
12659 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
12660 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
12661 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
12662 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
12663 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
12665 o Deprecated features:
12666 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
12667 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
12668 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
12669 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
12670 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
12671 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
12672 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
12673 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
12674 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12675 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
12676 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
12677 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
12678 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
12679 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
12680 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
12681 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
12682 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
12683 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
12684 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
12685 and TransListenAddress.
12687 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
12688 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12689 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12690 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12691 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12692 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12693 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12694 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12695 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12697 o Major features (build, hardening):
12698 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
12699 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
12700 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
12701 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
12702 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
12703 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
12704 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
12705 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
12706 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
12708 o Major features (circuit building, security):
12709 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
12710 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
12711 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
12713 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
12714 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
12716 o Major features (compilation):
12717 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
12718 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
12719 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
12720 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
12722 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
12723 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
12724 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
12726 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
12727 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
12728 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
12729 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
12730 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
12731 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
12732 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
12733 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
12735 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
12736 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
12737 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
12738 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
12739 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
12740 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
12741 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
12743 o Major features (resource management):
12744 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
12745 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
12746 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
12747 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
12748 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
12749 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
12751 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
12752 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
12753 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
12754 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
12755 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
12756 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
12757 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
12758 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
12759 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
12760 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
12761 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
12763 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
12764 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
12765 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
12766 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
12767 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
12768 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
12769 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
12770 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
12771 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
12772 part of proposal 264.
12774 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
12775 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
12776 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
12777 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
12779 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
12780 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
12781 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
12782 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12783 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
12784 download, stop waiting for certificates.
12785 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
12786 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
12787 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
12789 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
12790 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
12791 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
12793 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
12794 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
12795 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
12796 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
12797 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
12798 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
12799 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
12801 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12802 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
12803 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
12804 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
12805 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
12806 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
12807 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
12808 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
12809 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
12810 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
12812 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
12813 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
12814 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
12815 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
12816 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
12817 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12819 o Minor features (port flags):
12820 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
12821 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
12822 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
12823 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
12824 18693; patch by "teor".
12826 o Minor features (build, hardening):
12827 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
12828 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
12829 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
12830 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
12831 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
12832 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
12833 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
12834 Closes ticket 18895.
12836 o Minor features (client, directory):
12837 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
12838 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
12839 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
12842 o Minor features (code safety):
12843 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
12844 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
12845 patch from "U+039b".
12847 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
12848 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
12851 o Minor features (config):
12852 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
12853 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
12855 o Minor features (controller):
12856 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
12857 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
12858 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
12859 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
12860 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
12861 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
12862 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
12863 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
12865 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
12866 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
12867 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
12870 o Minor features (directory authority):
12871 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
12872 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
12873 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
12874 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
12875 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
12876 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
12877 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
12878 Implements ticket 18624.
12879 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
12880 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
12881 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
12884 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
12885 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
12886 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
12887 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
12888 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
12890 o Minor features (hidden service):
12891 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
12892 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
12893 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
12896 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
12897 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
12898 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
12899 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
12900 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
12901 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
12902 Closes ticket 18365.
12903 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
12904 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
12905 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
12906 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
12908 o Minor features (logging):
12909 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
12910 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
12911 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
12912 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
12913 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
12914 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
12915 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
12916 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
12917 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
12918 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
12920 o Minor features (performance):
12921 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
12922 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
12923 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
12924 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
12925 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
12926 Closes ticket 18815.
12928 o Minor features (relay, usability):
12929 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
12930 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
12931 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
12932 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
12935 o Minor features (security, TLS):
12936 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
12937 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
12938 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
12939 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
12941 o Minor features (testing):
12942 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
12943 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
12944 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
12945 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
12946 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
12947 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
12948 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
12949 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
12950 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
12951 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
12953 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
12954 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
12955 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
12956 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
12957 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
12958 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
12959 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
12961 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
12962 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
12963 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
12964 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
12965 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
12966 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
12967 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
12968 assertion as a test failure.
12969 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
12971 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
12972 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
12973 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
12974 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
12975 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
12976 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
12977 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
12978 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
12979 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
12981 o Minor features (Tor2web):
12982 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
12983 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
12984 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
12986 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
12987 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
12988 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
12989 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
12990 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
12992 o Minor features (user interface):
12993 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
12994 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
12995 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
12996 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
12999 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13000 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13001 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13002 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13005 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
13006 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
13007 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
13008 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
13009 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
13010 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
13012 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13013 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13014 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13015 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13017 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
13018 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13019 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13020 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13021 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13023 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
13024 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
13025 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
13026 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
13027 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
13029 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13030 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
13031 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
13032 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
13033 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13035 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
13036 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
13037 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13039 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13040 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13041 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13043 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13044 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13045 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13048 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
13049 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
13050 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13052 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13053 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
13054 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
13056 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
13057 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
13058 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13059 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
13060 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
13061 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
13062 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13063 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13065 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13066 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
13067 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
13068 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
13070 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13071 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
13072 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
13073 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13074 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
13075 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
13076 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
13077 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13078 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
13079 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
13081 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
13082 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
13083 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
13084 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13086 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
13087 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
13088 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
13089 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
13092 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
13093 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
13094 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
13095 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
13097 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
13098 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
13101 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13102 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
13103 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
13104 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
13106 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
13107 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
13109 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
13110 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
13111 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13112 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
13113 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
13115 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
13116 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
13117 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13119 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
13120 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
13121 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
13123 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13124 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
13125 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
13126 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
13127 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
13128 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13130 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13131 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13132 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
13134 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
13135 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13136 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
13137 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
13138 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
13139 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
13140 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
13142 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13143 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
13144 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13145 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
13146 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13147 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
13148 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13149 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
13150 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
13151 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13152 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
13153 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
13154 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13155 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
13156 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
13159 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
13160 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
13161 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
13162 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
13163 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
13164 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13166 o Minor bugfixes (options):
13167 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
13168 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
13170 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
13171 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
13172 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13175 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13176 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
13177 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13178 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
13179 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
13180 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13182 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13183 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
13184 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
13185 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
13186 patch from "cypherpunks".
13187 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
13188 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
13189 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
13190 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13191 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
13192 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
13193 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
13194 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
13195 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13196 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
13197 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
13199 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
13200 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
13202 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
13203 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
13204 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13205 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
13206 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
13209 o Minor bugfixes (time):
13210 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
13211 bugfix on all released tor versions.
13212 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
13213 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
13214 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
13215 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13217 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
13218 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
13219 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
13220 19678. Patch by teor.
13222 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
13223 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
13224 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
13225 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
13226 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
13228 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
13229 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13231 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13232 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
13234 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
13235 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13236 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
13237 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
13240 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
13241 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
13242 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
13243 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
13244 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
13245 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
13246 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
13247 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
13248 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
13249 tickets 19287 and 19290.
13250 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
13251 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13252 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
13253 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
13254 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13255 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
13256 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
13257 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
13259 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
13260 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
13261 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
13262 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
13265 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
13266 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
13268 o Removed features:
13269 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
13270 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
13271 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
13272 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
13273 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
13274 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
13275 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
13278 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
13279 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
13280 command-line options to enable them.
13281 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
13282 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
13285 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13286 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13287 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13288 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13291 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13292 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13293 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13294 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13295 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13296 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13299 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13300 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13301 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13304 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13305 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13306 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13307 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13309 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13310 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13311 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13312 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13315 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13316 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13317 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13318 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13321 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
13322 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13323 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13326 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13327 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13328 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13330 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13331 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13332 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13334 o Minor features (geoip):
13335 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13339 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
13340 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
13341 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
13342 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
13343 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
13346 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13347 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13348 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13349 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13350 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13351 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13352 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13353 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13354 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13356 o Minor features (geoip):
13357 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13361 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
13362 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
13363 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
13364 who select public relays as their bridges.
13366 o Major bugfixes (crash):
13367 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
13368 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
13369 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
13370 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
13371 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13373 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
13374 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
13375 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
13376 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
13377 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
13380 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13381 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
13382 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13384 o Minor features (geoip):
13385 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13389 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
13390 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
13391 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
13392 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
13393 encouraged to upgrade.
13395 o Directory authority changes:
13396 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13397 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13399 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
13400 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
13401 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
13402 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
13403 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
13404 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13406 o Minor features (geoip):
13407 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13410 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13411 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
13412 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
13415 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13416 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
13417 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
13418 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
13421 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
13423 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
13425 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
13426 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
13427 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
13428 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
13429 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
13430 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13432 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
13434 o New system requirements:
13435 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
13436 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
13437 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
13439 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
13440 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
13441 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
13442 longer runs with, these versions.
13443 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
13444 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
13445 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
13446 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
13447 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
13449 o Directory authority changes:
13450 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13451 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13453 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13455 o Major features (directory system):
13456 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
13457 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
13458 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
13459 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
13460 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
13461 gsathya, and karsten.
13462 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
13463 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
13464 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
13465 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
13466 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
13468 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
13469 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
13470 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
13471 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
13472 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
13473 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
13474 mikeperry and teor.
13476 o Major features (security, Linux):
13477 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
13478 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
13479 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
13480 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
13481 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
13483 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
13484 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
13485 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
13486 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
13487 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
13488 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
13489 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
13491 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
13492 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
13495 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
13496 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13497 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13499 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
13500 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
13501 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
13502 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
13503 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
13505 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
13506 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
13507 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
13508 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13509 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
13510 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
13511 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
13512 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
13513 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
13514 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13516 o Major bugfixes (key management):
13517 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13518 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13519 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13520 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13521 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13522 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13525 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
13526 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13527 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13528 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13529 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13531 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
13532 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
13533 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
13534 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
13535 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
13536 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
13537 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
13538 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
13539 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13541 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
13542 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13543 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13544 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13545 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13547 o Major bugfixes (testing):
13548 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
13549 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13551 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
13552 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
13553 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
13554 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13556 o Minor features (accounting):
13557 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
13558 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
13559 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
13560 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
13562 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
13563 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13564 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13565 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13566 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
13567 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
13568 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
13571 o Minor features (build):
13572 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
13573 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
13574 Steven Chamberlain.
13575 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
13576 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
13577 patch from "cypherpunks".
13578 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
13579 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
13580 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
13581 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
13582 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
13583 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
13584 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13585 Patch from intrigeri.
13587 o Minor features (clients):
13588 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
13589 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
13590 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
13592 o Minor features (controller):
13593 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
13594 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
13595 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
13597 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
13598 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
13599 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
13600 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
13601 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
13603 o Minor features (crypto):
13604 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
13605 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
13607 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
13608 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
13609 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13610 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
13611 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
13613 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
13614 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
13615 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
13616 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
13618 o Minor features (directory downloads):
13619 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
13620 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
13621 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
13622 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
13623 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
13624 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
13625 17864; patch by teor.
13627 o Minor features (geoip):
13628 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13631 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
13632 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
13633 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
13634 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
13635 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
13637 o Minor features (IPv6):
13638 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
13639 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
13640 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
13641 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
13642 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
13643 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
13644 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
13645 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
13646 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
13647 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
13648 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
13649 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
13651 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
13652 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
13653 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
13654 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
13655 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
13656 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
13657 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
13658 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
13659 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
13660 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13662 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13663 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
13664 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
13665 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
13666 while fixing 18548.
13668 o Minor features (logging):
13669 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
13670 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
13671 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
13672 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
13675 o Minor features (portability):
13676 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
13677 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
13679 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
13680 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
13681 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
13682 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
13683 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
13685 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
13686 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
13687 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
13688 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
13689 Resolves ticket 17951.
13691 o Minor features (replay cache):
13692 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
13693 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
13695 o Minor features (robustness):
13696 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
13697 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
13698 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
13700 o Minor features (security, clock):
13701 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
13702 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
13703 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
13704 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
13706 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
13707 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
13708 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
13709 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
13710 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
13711 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
13713 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
13714 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13715 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13716 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13718 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
13719 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
13720 Implements ticket 17026.
13721 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
13722 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
13723 Implements feature 17986.
13724 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
13725 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
13726 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
13728 o Minor features (security, RNG):
13729 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
13730 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
13731 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
13732 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
13733 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
13734 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
13735 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
13736 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
13737 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
13738 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
13741 o Minor features (security, win32):
13742 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
13743 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
13746 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13747 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
13748 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
13749 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
13750 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
13751 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
13752 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
13755 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
13756 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
13757 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
13758 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
13759 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13760 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
13761 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
13762 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
13763 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
13764 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
13765 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13766 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
13767 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
13768 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
13770 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
13771 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
13772 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
13773 from "unixninja92".
13775 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
13776 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
13777 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
13780 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13781 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
13782 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13784 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13785 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
13786 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
13787 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13788 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
13789 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
13791 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
13792 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
13794 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
13795 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
13796 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
13797 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
13798 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
13800 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
13801 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13802 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
13803 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
13804 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13805 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
13807 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
13808 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
13809 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
13810 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
13811 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13812 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
13813 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
13814 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13815 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
13816 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
13817 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
13819 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
13820 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
13823 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
13824 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
13825 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
13826 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
13827 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13829 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13830 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
13831 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
13832 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
13833 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
13834 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13835 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
13836 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
13838 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
13840 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
13841 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
13842 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
13844 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
13845 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
13846 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13848 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13849 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
13850 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13852 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
13853 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
13854 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
13855 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13857 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
13858 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
13859 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
13860 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
13861 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13863 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
13864 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
13865 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
13867 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
13868 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
13869 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
13870 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
13871 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
13872 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13873 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
13874 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
13875 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
13877 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
13878 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
13879 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
13880 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
13883 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
13884 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
13885 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
13886 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
13887 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
13889 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13890 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
13891 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
13892 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
13893 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
13894 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
13895 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
13896 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
13898 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
13899 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
13900 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
13901 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
13902 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
13903 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
13904 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
13905 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
13906 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
13909 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
13910 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
13911 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
13912 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13914 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
13915 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
13916 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
13918 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13919 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
13920 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13922 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13923 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
13924 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
13925 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
13926 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13927 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
13928 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
13929 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13930 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
13931 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
13932 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13933 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
13934 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
13935 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13936 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
13937 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13938 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
13939 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
13940 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
13942 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13943 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
13944 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
13945 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
13946 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
13948 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
13949 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13950 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
13951 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
13952 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
13953 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
13954 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
13955 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
13956 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
13957 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13958 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
13959 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
13962 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
13963 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
13964 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
13965 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
13967 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
13968 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13969 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
13972 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13973 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
13974 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
13975 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13977 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
13978 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
13979 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
13980 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
13981 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
13982 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
13985 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
13986 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
13987 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
13988 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
13990 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
13991 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
13992 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
13993 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
13994 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
13995 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
13996 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
13997 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
13998 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14000 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
14001 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
14002 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
14003 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
14004 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
14006 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
14007 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
14008 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
14009 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
14011 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14012 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
14013 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
14014 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14015 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
14016 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
14017 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
14018 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
14020 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
14021 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14023 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
14024 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
14025 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
14028 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14029 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
14030 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
14031 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
14033 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
14034 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
14035 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14036 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
14037 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
14038 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14039 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
14040 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
14041 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
14042 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
14043 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14044 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
14045 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
14046 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
14047 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
14048 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14050 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
14051 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
14052 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
14053 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14054 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
14055 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
14056 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
14058 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
14059 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
14060 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
14061 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
14063 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14064 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
14065 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
14067 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
14068 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
14069 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
14070 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
14072 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
14073 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
14074 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
14075 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
14076 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
14077 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
14078 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
14079 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
14080 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
14081 17744. Patch from zerosion.
14082 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
14083 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
14084 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
14085 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
14086 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
14087 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
14088 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
14089 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
14090 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
14091 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
14092 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
14093 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
14097 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
14098 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
14099 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
14100 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
14101 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
14102 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
14103 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
14104 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
14105 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
14106 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
14107 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
14108 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
14110 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
14111 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
14113 o Removed features:
14114 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
14115 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
14116 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
14117 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
14118 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
14119 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
14120 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
14121 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
14124 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
14125 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
14126 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
14127 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
14128 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
14129 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
14130 portion of ticket 16831.
14131 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
14133 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
14134 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
14135 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
14136 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
14137 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
14139 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
14140 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
14141 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
14142 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
14145 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
14146 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
14147 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
14149 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
14150 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14151 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14152 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14153 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14154 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14157 o Minor features (geoip):
14158 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14161 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14162 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
14163 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
14164 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
14165 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14166 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14168 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14169 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
14170 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
14171 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
14172 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
14173 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
14174 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
14175 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14176 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
14177 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14180 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
14181 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
14182 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
14183 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
14184 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
14185 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
14186 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
14187 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
14188 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
14189 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
14190 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
14191 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
14192 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
14193 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
14194 that would make him proud.
14196 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
14198 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
14199 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
14200 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
14201 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
14202 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
14203 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
14204 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
14206 o New system requirements:
14207 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
14208 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
14210 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
14211 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
14212 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
14213 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
14214 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
14215 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
14216 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
14217 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
14218 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
14219 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
14220 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
14221 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
14222 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
14224 o Major features (controller):
14225 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
14226 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
14228 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
14229 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
14230 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
14231 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
14232 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
14233 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
14234 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
14236 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
14237 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
14238 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
14239 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
14240 key). Closes ticket 13642.
14241 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
14242 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
14243 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
14244 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
14245 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
14246 Implements part of ticket 12498.
14247 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
14248 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
14249 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
14250 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
14251 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
14252 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
14253 part of ticket 12498.
14254 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
14255 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
14257 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
14258 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
14259 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
14260 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
14261 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
14262 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
14263 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
14264 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
14265 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
14268 o Major features (ECC performance):
14269 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
14270 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
14272 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
14273 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
14274 available. Implements ticket 16535.
14275 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
14276 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
14277 Implements ticket 16467.
14278 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
14279 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
14280 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
14281 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
14283 o Major features (Hidden services):
14284 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
14285 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
14286 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
14287 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
14288 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
14289 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
14290 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
14291 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
14292 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
14293 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
14294 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
14295 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
14297 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
14298 introduction points, which used to change the number of
14299 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
14300 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
14302 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
14303 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
14304 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
14305 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
14306 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
14307 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
14309 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
14310 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
14311 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
14312 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
14313 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
14314 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
14316 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
14317 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
14318 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
14319 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
14320 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
14321 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
14322 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
14323 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
14326 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14327 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
14328 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
14329 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
14331 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
14332 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
14333 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
14334 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
14335 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
14336 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
14339 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
14340 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
14341 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14343 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
14344 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
14345 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
14346 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
14347 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
14348 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
14350 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
14351 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14352 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14353 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14354 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14357 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
14358 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
14359 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
14360 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
14361 by "cypherpunks_backup".
14362 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
14363 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
14364 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
14367 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
14368 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
14369 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
14370 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
14372 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
14373 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
14374 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
14375 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14376 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
14377 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
14378 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
14381 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
14382 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
14383 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
14384 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
14385 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
14386 own. Implements feature 15482.
14387 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
14388 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
14390 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
14391 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
14392 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
14393 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
14394 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
14396 o Minor features (command-line interface):
14397 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
14398 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14399 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
14400 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
14402 o Minor features (compilation):
14403 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
14404 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
14405 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
14406 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
14407 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
14409 o Minor features (control protocol):
14410 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
14411 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
14413 o Minor features (controller):
14414 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
14415 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
14416 present. Implements ticket 14840.
14417 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
14418 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
14419 Closes ticket 14845.
14420 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
14421 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
14422 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
14424 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14425 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
14426 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
14427 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
14428 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
14429 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
14431 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
14432 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
14433 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
14434 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
14435 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
14436 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
14437 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
14439 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
14440 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14441 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14442 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14444 o Minor features (geoip):
14445 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14448 o Minor features (hidden services):
14449 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
14450 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
14451 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
14452 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
14454 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
14455 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
14456 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
14458 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
14459 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
14460 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
14461 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
14462 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
14463 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
14464 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
14465 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
14467 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
14468 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
14469 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
14470 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
14471 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
14472 Closes ticket 15745.
14474 o Minor features (logging):
14475 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
14476 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
14479 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
14480 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
14481 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
14482 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
14484 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
14485 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
14486 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
14487 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
14488 Resolves ticket 15435.
14490 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
14491 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
14492 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
14493 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14494 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
14495 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
14496 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
14497 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14498 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
14499 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
14500 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
14501 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
14502 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
14503 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
14504 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
14505 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
14506 Related to ticket 16069.
14508 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
14509 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
14510 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
14512 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
14513 stderr, not stdout.
14514 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
14515 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
14516 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
14519 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14520 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
14521 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
14522 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
14523 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
14525 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
14526 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
14527 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
14528 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
14530 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
14531 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
14532 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
14533 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
14534 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
14535 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
14536 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
14537 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14539 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14540 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
14541 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
14542 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14544 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14545 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
14546 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
14548 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
14549 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
14550 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
14552 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
14553 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
14554 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
14555 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14557 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
14558 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14559 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14560 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14561 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14562 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14564 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14565 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14566 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14568 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
14569 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14571 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14572 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
14573 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14574 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
14575 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14576 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
14577 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
14578 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
14580 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
14581 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
14582 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
14583 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
14585 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
14586 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
14587 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
14589 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
14590 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
14591 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
14594 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14595 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
14596 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
14597 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
14598 recent enough Clang.
14600 o Minor bugfixes (network):
14601 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
14602 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
14603 unsuitable for public communications.
14605 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
14606 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
14607 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
14608 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
14610 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14611 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
14612 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14613 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
14614 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
14616 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
14617 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
14619 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14620 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
14621 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
14622 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
14623 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
14625 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
14626 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14627 from "cypherpunks".
14628 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
14629 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
14632 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
14633 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
14634 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
14635 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
14636 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
14638 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14639 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
14640 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
14641 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
14642 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
14643 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
14645 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
14646 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
14647 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
14648 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14650 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
14651 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
14652 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
14653 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
14654 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
14655 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
14656 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
14657 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
14659 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
14660 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
14661 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14663 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14664 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
14665 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
14666 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
14667 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
14668 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
14669 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
14670 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
14671 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
14672 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
14673 function. Closes ticket 16763.
14674 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
14675 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
14677 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
14678 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
14679 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
14680 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
14681 haven't supported that in ages.
14682 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
14683 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
14684 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
14685 suite of other microdesc functions.
14686 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
14687 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
14688 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
14689 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
14690 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
14691 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
14692 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
14693 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
14694 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
14695 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
14696 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
14697 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
14698 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
14699 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
14700 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
14701 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
14703 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
14704 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
14708 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
14709 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
14710 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
14712 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
14713 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14714 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
14715 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
14716 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
14717 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
14718 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
14719 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
14720 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
14721 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
14723 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
14725 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
14726 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
14727 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
14728 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
14729 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
14730 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
14731 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
14732 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
14733 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
14734 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
14735 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
14736 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
14737 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
14739 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
14740 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
14743 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
14744 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
14745 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
14746 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
14747 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
14748 Closes ticket 14922.
14749 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
14750 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
14751 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
14752 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
14753 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
14754 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
14755 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
14756 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
14757 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
14758 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
14759 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
14760 Closes ticket 13338.
14762 o Removed features:
14763 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
14764 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
14765 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
14766 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
14767 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
14768 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
14769 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
14770 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
14771 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
14772 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
14773 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
14774 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
14775 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
14776 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
14777 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
14780 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
14781 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
14782 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
14783 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
14784 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
14785 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
14786 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
14787 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
14788 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
14789 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
14790 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
14792 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
14793 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
14794 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
14795 Closes ticket 15817.
14796 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
14797 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
14798 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
14799 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
14800 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
14801 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
14802 network before we begin.
14803 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
14804 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
14805 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
14806 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
14807 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
14808 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
14810 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
14811 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
14813 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
14814 default as a part of "make check".
14815 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
14816 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
14817 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
14818 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
14819 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
14820 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
14821 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
14822 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
14823 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
14824 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
14825 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
14826 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
14827 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
14828 files. Closes ticket 15180.
14829 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
14830 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
14831 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
14832 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
14833 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
14834 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
14835 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
14836 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
14837 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
14838 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
14839 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
14840 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
14841 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
14842 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
14843 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
14844 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
14845 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
14847 - Set the severity correctly when testing
14848 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
14849 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
14850 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
14851 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
14853 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
14854 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
14855 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
14856 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
14857 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
14858 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
14860 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
14861 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
14862 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
14863 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
14864 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
14865 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
14866 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
14867 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
14870 o Major bugfixes (stability):
14871 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
14872 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
14873 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
14874 by "cypherpunks_backup".
14875 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
14876 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
14877 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
14880 o Minor features (geoip):
14881 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14882 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14884 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
14885 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14886 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14887 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14888 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14889 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14891 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14892 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
14893 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
14894 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
14897 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
14898 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
14899 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
14900 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
14901 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
14903 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
14904 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
14905 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
14906 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
14907 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14910 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
14911 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
14912 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
14913 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
14914 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
14915 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
14916 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
14918 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14919 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
14920 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
14921 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
14923 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14924 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
14925 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
14926 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
14927 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
14928 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
14931 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14932 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
14933 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14936 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
14937 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
14938 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
14939 authorities should upgrade.
14941 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14942 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
14943 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
14944 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
14947 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14948 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14949 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14952 o Minor features (geoip):
14953 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14954 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14958 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
14959 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
14960 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
14961 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
14962 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14964 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
14965 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14967 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14968 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14969 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14970 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14971 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14972 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14973 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14975 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14976 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14977 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14978 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14979 Resolves ticket 15515.
14980 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
14981 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
14982 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
14986 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
14987 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
14988 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
14989 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
14990 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14992 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
14993 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14995 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14996 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14997 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14998 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14999 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15000 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15001 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15003 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15004 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15005 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15006 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15007 Resolves ticket 15515.
15010 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
15011 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15012 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15013 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15014 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15016 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15017 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15019 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15020 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15021 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15022 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15023 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15024 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15025 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15027 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15028 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15029 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15030 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15031 Resolves ticket 15515.
15034 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
15035 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
15037 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
15038 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
15039 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
15040 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
15041 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
15042 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
15043 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
15044 bugs should be addressed.
15046 o New compiler and system requirements:
15047 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
15048 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
15049 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
15050 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
15052 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
15053 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
15054 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
15055 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
15056 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
15057 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
15058 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
15059 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
15060 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
15062 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
15063 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
15064 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
15065 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
15066 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
15067 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
15068 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
15070 o Directory authority changes:
15071 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15072 closes ticket 14487.
15073 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15074 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15075 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15077 o Major features (bridges):
15078 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
15079 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
15080 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
15083 o Major features (changed defaults):
15084 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
15085 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
15086 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
15087 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
15088 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
15089 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
15091 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
15092 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
15093 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
15094 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
15097 o Major features (directory system):
15098 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
15099 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
15100 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
15101 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
15102 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
15103 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
15104 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
15105 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
15106 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
15107 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
15108 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
15109 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
15110 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
15111 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
15112 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
15113 227. Closes ticket 10395.
15115 o Major features (guards):
15116 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
15117 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
15118 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
15119 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
15120 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
15122 o Major features (hidden services):
15123 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
15124 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
15125 Closes ticket 13667.
15126 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
15127 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
15128 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
15129 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
15130 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
15131 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
15132 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
15133 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
15134 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
15135 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
15136 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
15138 o Major features (performance):
15139 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
15140 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
15141 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
15142 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
15143 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
15144 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
15145 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
15146 Implements ticket 9682.
15148 o Major features (relay):
15149 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
15150 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
15151 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
15152 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
15153 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
15154 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
15155 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
15156 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
15158 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
15159 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
15160 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
15161 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
15162 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
15163 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
15164 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
15167 o Major features (sample torrc):
15168 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
15169 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
15170 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
15171 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
15172 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
15173 generally useful "sample torrc".
15175 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
15176 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
15177 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
15178 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
15179 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
15180 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
15182 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
15183 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
15184 Implements ticket 11485.
15186 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
15187 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
15188 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
15189 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
15190 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
15191 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
15194 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
15195 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
15196 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
15199 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15200 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
15201 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15203 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
15204 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
15205 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
15206 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
15207 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15209 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
15210 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
15211 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
15212 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15214 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
15215 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
15216 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
15219 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15220 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
15221 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
15222 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
15223 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
15224 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
15226 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15227 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
15228 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
15229 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
15231 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
15232 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
15233 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
15234 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
15235 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
15236 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
15237 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
15239 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15240 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
15241 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
15242 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
15243 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
15244 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15246 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
15247 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
15248 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
15249 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
15250 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15251 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
15252 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
15253 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15255 o Minor features (build):
15256 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
15257 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
15258 Resolves ticket 13037.
15260 o Minor features (client):
15261 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
15262 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
15263 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
15264 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
15266 o Minor features (client):
15267 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
15268 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
15269 Resolves ticket 13315.
15271 o Minor features (controller):
15272 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
15273 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
15275 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
15276 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
15278 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
15279 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
15280 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
15281 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
15282 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
15283 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
15284 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
15285 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
15286 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
15288 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
15289 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
15290 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
15291 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
15292 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
15293 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
15294 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
15295 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
15296 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
15297 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
15299 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15300 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
15301 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
15302 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
15303 argument more than once.
15304 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
15305 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
15306 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
15307 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
15308 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
15309 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
15311 o Minor features (geoip):
15312 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15313 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15316 o Minor features (guard nodes):
15317 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
15318 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
15319 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
15321 o Minor features (heartbeat):
15322 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
15323 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
15324 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
15325 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
15327 o Minor features (hidden service):
15328 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
15329 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
15330 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
15331 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
15332 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
15333 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
15334 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
15335 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
15336 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
15337 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
15338 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
15339 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
15340 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
15341 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
15343 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
15344 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
15345 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
15347 o Minor features (interface):
15348 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
15349 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
15350 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
15352 o Minor features (logging):
15353 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
15354 Resolves ticket 6852.
15355 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
15356 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
15357 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
15359 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
15360 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
15361 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
15362 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
15363 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
15364 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
15365 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
15366 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
15367 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
15368 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
15369 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
15370 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
15373 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
15374 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
15375 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
15376 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
15378 o Minor features (relay):
15379 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
15380 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
15381 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
15383 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
15384 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
15385 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
15386 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
15387 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
15388 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
15389 document. Implements feature 10427.
15391 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
15392 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
15393 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
15394 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
15396 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
15397 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
15398 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
15399 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
15400 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
15401 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
15403 o Minor features (stability):
15404 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
15405 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
15408 o Minor features (systemd):
15409 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
15410 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
15411 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
15412 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
15413 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
15414 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
15416 o Minor features (testing networks):
15417 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
15418 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
15419 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
15420 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
15421 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
15423 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
15424 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
15425 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
15426 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
15427 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
15428 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
15430 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
15431 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
15432 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
15433 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
15434 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
15436 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
15437 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
15438 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
15439 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
15440 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
15442 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
15443 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
15444 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
15445 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
15446 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
15449 o Minor features (validation):
15450 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
15451 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
15452 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
15453 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
15454 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
15455 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
15456 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
15457 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
15458 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
15459 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
15460 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
15463 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
15464 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
15465 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
15466 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15468 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15469 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
15470 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
15471 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15473 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
15474 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
15475 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
15477 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
15478 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
15479 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
15481 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
15482 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15483 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
15484 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
15485 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15486 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
15487 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15489 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15490 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
15491 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
15492 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15493 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
15494 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
15495 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
15496 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
15497 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
15499 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15500 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
15501 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
15502 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
15503 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
15504 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15505 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
15506 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
15507 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
15509 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
15510 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
15511 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
15512 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15513 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
15514 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15515 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
15516 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
15518 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
15519 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
15520 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
15523 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
15524 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
15525 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
15526 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
15527 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15529 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
15530 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
15531 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
15532 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15533 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
15534 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
15535 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
15536 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15538 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
15539 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
15540 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
15541 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
15542 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15544 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
15545 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
15546 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
15547 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
15548 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
15550 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
15551 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
15552 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15554 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
15555 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
15556 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
15557 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
15558 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
15560 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
15561 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
15562 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
15564 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15565 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
15567 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
15568 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
15569 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
15570 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
15572 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
15573 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
15575 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
15576 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
15577 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
15578 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
15579 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
15580 Addresses ticket 14188.
15581 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
15582 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
15583 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
15584 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
15585 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
15586 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
15587 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
15588 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15589 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
15590 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
15591 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
15594 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15595 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
15596 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
15597 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
15598 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
15599 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15601 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15602 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
15603 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
15604 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
15605 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
15607 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15608 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
15609 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
15610 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
15611 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
15612 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
15613 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
15614 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15615 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
15616 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15617 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
15618 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
15619 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15620 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
15621 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
15622 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15624 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15625 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
15626 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
15627 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15628 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
15629 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
15630 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
15631 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
15634 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
15635 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
15636 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
15637 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
15638 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
15639 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
15640 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
15641 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
15642 state, and key files.
15643 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
15644 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
15647 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15648 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
15649 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
15650 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
15651 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15652 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
15653 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
15654 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15655 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
15656 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
15657 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
15658 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
15659 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
15660 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
15661 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
15662 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
15663 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
15664 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
15667 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15668 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
15669 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
15670 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
15671 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
15672 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
15673 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
15674 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
15675 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
15676 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15678 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15679 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
15680 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15681 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
15682 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
15683 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
15685 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
15686 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
15688 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
15689 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
15690 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
15691 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
15692 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15694 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
15695 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
15696 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
15697 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
15698 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
15699 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15701 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15702 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
15703 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
15705 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
15706 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
15707 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15709 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
15710 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
15711 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
15712 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
15713 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
15715 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
15716 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
15717 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
15720 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15721 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
15722 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15723 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
15724 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
15727 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
15728 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
15729 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
15730 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
15733 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
15734 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
15735 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
15738 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15739 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
15740 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15742 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
15743 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
15744 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
15745 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
15746 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
15749 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
15750 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
15751 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15752 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
15753 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
15754 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15756 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
15757 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
15758 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
15759 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
15760 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
15761 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
15763 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
15764 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
15765 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
15766 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
15767 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15768 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
15769 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
15770 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
15771 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
15772 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
15773 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
15774 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
15775 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
15776 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
15777 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
15778 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
15779 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
15780 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
15781 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
15782 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15783 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
15784 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
15785 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
15786 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
15787 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
15788 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
15789 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
15790 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15791 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
15792 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
15793 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
15794 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
15796 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
15797 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
15798 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
15799 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
15800 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15802 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15803 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
15804 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
15805 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
15806 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
15807 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15808 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
15809 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
15810 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15812 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
15813 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
15814 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
15816 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
15817 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
15818 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
15821 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
15822 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
15823 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
15824 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
15827 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
15828 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
15829 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15831 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15832 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
15833 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
15835 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
15836 Resolves ticket 12205.
15837 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
15838 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
15839 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
15840 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
15842 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
15843 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
15844 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
15846 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
15847 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
15849 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
15850 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
15851 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
15852 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
15853 or_options_t structure.
15854 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
15855 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
15856 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
15857 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
15858 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
15859 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
15860 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
15861 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
15863 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
15864 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
15866 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
15868 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
15869 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
15870 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
15871 with a function instead.
15872 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
15873 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
15874 Closes ticket 13172.
15875 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
15876 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
15877 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
15878 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
15879 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
15880 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
15881 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
15882 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
15883 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
15884 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
15885 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
15886 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
15890 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
15891 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
15892 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
15893 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
15895 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
15896 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
15897 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
15898 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
15899 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
15900 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
15901 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
15902 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
15903 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
15904 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
15905 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
15906 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
15907 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
15908 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
15909 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
15910 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
15911 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
15912 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
15914 o Distribution (systemd):
15915 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
15916 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
15917 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
15918 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
15919 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15921 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
15922 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
15924 o Downgraded warnings:
15925 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
15926 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
15929 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
15930 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
15931 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
15934 o Removed features (directory authorities):
15935 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
15936 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
15937 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
15938 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
15939 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
15940 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
15941 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
15942 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
15943 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
15945 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
15946 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
15947 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
15948 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
15951 o Removed features:
15952 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
15953 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
15954 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
15955 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
15956 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
15958 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
15959 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
15960 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
15961 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
15962 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
15963 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
15964 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
15965 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
15966 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
15968 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
15969 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
15971 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
15972 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
15973 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
15974 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
15975 anymore, and ignore it.
15977 o Removed platform support:
15978 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
15979 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
15980 Closes ticket 11446.
15982 o Testing (test-network.sh):
15983 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
15984 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
15986 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
15988 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
15989 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
15990 Partially implements ticket 13161.
15993 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
15994 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
15995 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
15996 (existing behavior).
15997 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
15998 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
15999 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
16000 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
16001 Closes ticket 14107.
16002 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
16003 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16004 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
16005 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
16007 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
16008 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
16009 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
16010 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
16011 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
16012 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
16014 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
16016 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
16017 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
16018 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
16019 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16020 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
16021 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
16022 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
16023 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
16024 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
16025 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
16026 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
16027 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
16029 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
16030 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
16031 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
16033 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16034 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16036 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16037 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16038 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16040 o Directory authority changes:
16041 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16042 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16043 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16044 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16045 closes ticket 14487.
16047 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16048 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16049 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16052 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16053 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16054 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16055 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16056 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16057 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16058 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16059 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16061 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16062 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16063 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16064 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16066 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16067 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16068 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16069 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16071 o Minor features (controller):
16072 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16073 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16074 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16076 o Minor features (geoip):
16077 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16078 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16081 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16082 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16083 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16084 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16085 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16086 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16088 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16089 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16090 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16091 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16093 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16094 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16095 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16096 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16097 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16098 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16099 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16100 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16102 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16103 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16104 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16106 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16107 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16108 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16109 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16110 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16114 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
16115 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
16116 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
16119 o Directory authority changes:
16120 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16121 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16122 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16123 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16124 closes ticket 14487.
16126 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
16127 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16128 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16129 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16131 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
16132 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16133 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16134 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16135 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16136 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16137 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16138 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16140 o Minor features (geoip):
16141 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16142 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16145 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
16146 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16148 It adds several new security features, including improved
16149 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
16150 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
16151 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
16152 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
16153 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
16154 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
16155 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
16156 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
16157 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
16158 and features mentioned below.
16160 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
16161 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
16163 o Major features (security):
16164 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
16165 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
16166 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
16167 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
16168 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
16169 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
16170 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
16171 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
16172 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
16173 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
16175 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
16176 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
16177 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
16178 streams attached to each circuit.
16180 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
16181 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
16182 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
16183 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
16184 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
16185 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
16186 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
16187 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
16188 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
16189 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
16190 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
16191 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
16192 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
16194 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
16195 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
16196 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
16197 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
16199 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
16200 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
16201 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
16202 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
16203 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
16204 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
16206 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
16207 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
16208 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
16209 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
16210 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
16211 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
16212 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
16213 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
16216 o Major features (controller):
16217 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
16218 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
16219 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
16220 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
16221 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
16222 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
16224 o Major features (relay performance):
16225 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
16226 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
16227 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
16228 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
16229 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
16230 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
16231 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
16232 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
16233 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
16234 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
16236 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
16237 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
16238 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
16239 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
16240 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
16241 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
16242 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
16243 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
16244 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
16245 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
16247 o Major features (testing networks):
16248 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
16249 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
16250 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
16251 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
16252 Implements ticket 8530.
16254 o Major features (other):
16255 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
16256 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
16257 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
16258 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
16259 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
16260 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
16262 o Deprecated versions:
16263 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
16264 attention for some while.
16266 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
16267 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
16268 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
16270 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
16271 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
16272 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
16273 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
16274 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
16275 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
16276 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
16277 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
16278 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
16279 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
16280 router's identity is not forgeable.
16282 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
16283 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
16284 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
16285 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
16287 o Major bugfixes (client):
16288 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
16289 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
16290 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
16291 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
16292 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
16293 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
16294 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
16295 to build circuits".
16297 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
16298 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
16299 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
16300 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
16303 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
16304 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
16305 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
16306 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
16307 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
16308 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
16309 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16311 o Major bugfixes (relay):
16312 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
16313 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16314 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16315 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
16316 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
16317 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
16318 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16319 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
16320 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
16321 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
16322 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16323 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
16324 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
16325 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
16326 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
16327 bugfix on every version of Tor.
16329 o Minor features (security):
16330 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
16331 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
16332 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
16333 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
16335 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
16336 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
16337 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
16338 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
16339 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
16340 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
16341 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
16343 o Minor features (security, memory management):
16344 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
16345 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
16346 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
16347 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
16348 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
16349 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
16351 o Minor features (bridge client):
16352 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
16353 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
16354 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
16356 o Minor features (bridge):
16357 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
16358 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
16360 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16361 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
16362 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
16363 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
16364 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
16365 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
16366 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
16367 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
16368 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
16369 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
16370 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
16371 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
16372 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
16373 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
16374 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
16376 o Minor features (build):
16377 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
16378 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
16379 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
16380 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
16381 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
16382 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
16383 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
16384 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
16385 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
16386 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
16387 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
16388 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
16389 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
16390 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
16391 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
16394 o Minor features (client):
16395 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
16396 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
16397 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
16398 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
16400 o Minor features (config options and command line):
16401 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
16402 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
16403 Implements ticket 10060.
16404 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
16405 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
16406 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
16408 o Minor features (config options):
16409 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
16410 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
16411 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
16412 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
16413 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
16414 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
16415 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
16416 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
16417 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
16418 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
16419 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
16420 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
16421 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
16422 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
16423 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
16424 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
16425 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
16428 o Minor features (controller):
16429 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
16430 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
16432 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
16433 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
16434 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
16435 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
16436 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
16437 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
16438 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
16439 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
16441 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
16442 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
16443 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
16445 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16446 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
16447 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
16448 help diagnose bug 7164.
16449 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
16450 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
16451 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
16452 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
16453 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
16455 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
16456 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
16457 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
16458 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
16459 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
16460 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
16461 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
16462 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
16463 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
16464 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
16465 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
16466 still referenced by a live node_t object.
16467 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
16468 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
16469 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16471 o Minor features (geoip):
16472 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16475 o Minor features (interface):
16476 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
16477 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
16478 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
16479 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
16481 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
16482 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
16483 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
16485 o Minor features (log messages):
16486 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
16487 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
16488 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
16489 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
16490 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
16491 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
16492 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
16493 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
16495 o Minor features (log verbosity):
16496 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
16497 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
16498 Resolves ticket 5286.
16499 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
16500 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
16501 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
16502 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
16503 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
16504 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
16506 o Minor features (performance):
16507 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
16508 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
16509 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
16510 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
16511 Closes ticket 8109.
16513 o Minor features (relay):
16514 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
16515 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
16516 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
16518 o Minor features (testing):
16519 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
16520 the unit test scripts.
16521 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
16522 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
16523 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
16524 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
16526 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
16527 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
16528 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
16529 10267; patch from "yurivict".
16530 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
16531 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
16532 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
16533 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
16534 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
16535 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
16537 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
16538 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
16539 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
16540 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16542 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16543 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
16544 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
16545 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16546 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
16547 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
16548 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
16549 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
16550 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
16551 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
16553 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
16554 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
16555 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
16557 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
16558 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
16559 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
16560 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
16561 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16563 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16564 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
16565 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
16566 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
16567 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16568 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
16569 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
16570 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
16571 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16572 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
16573 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
16574 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
16576 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
16577 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
16578 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
16579 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
16580 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
16581 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16582 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
16583 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
16584 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16585 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
16586 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
16587 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16589 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
16590 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
16591 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
16592 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
16594 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
16595 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
16596 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
16597 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
16600 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
16601 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
16602 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
16603 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16604 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
16605 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
16608 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
16609 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
16610 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
16611 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
16612 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
16614 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
16615 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
16616 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
16619 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16620 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
16621 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
16622 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
16623 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
16624 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
16625 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
16626 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
16627 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
16628 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
16630 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
16631 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
16632 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
16633 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
16634 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
16636 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
16637 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16639 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16640 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
16641 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
16642 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
16643 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
16644 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
16645 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
16646 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
16647 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
16648 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16649 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
16650 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
16651 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
16653 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
16654 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
16655 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
16656 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
16657 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
16658 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
16659 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
16660 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
16661 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
16662 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
16663 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
16664 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
16665 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
16667 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
16668 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
16669 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
16671 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
16672 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
16673 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
16674 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
16675 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
16676 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
16678 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
16679 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
16680 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
16681 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16682 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
16683 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
16684 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
16685 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
16686 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
16687 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16689 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16690 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
16691 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16693 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
16694 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
16695 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
16696 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
16697 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16699 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16700 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
16701 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
16702 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16703 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
16704 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
16705 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
16706 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16707 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
16708 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
16709 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
16710 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
16711 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
16712 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
16714 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16715 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
16716 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
16717 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
16718 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
16719 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
16720 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
16721 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
16722 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
16724 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
16725 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
16726 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
16727 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
16728 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
16729 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
16730 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
16732 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
16733 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
16735 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
16736 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
16737 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
16738 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
16740 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
16741 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
16742 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
16743 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16744 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
16745 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
16746 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
16747 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
16748 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
16749 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
16750 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
16751 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
16752 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16753 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
16754 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
16755 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
16756 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
16758 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
16759 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
16760 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
16761 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
16762 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
16763 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
16764 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
16765 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
16768 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
16769 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
16770 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
16771 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
16772 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
16773 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
16774 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16775 Reported by "mr-4".
16776 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
16777 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
16778 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
16779 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16781 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
16782 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
16783 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
16784 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
16785 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
16786 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
16787 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
16788 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
16789 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16790 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
16791 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
16792 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
16794 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
16795 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
16796 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
16798 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
16799 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
16800 early. Fixes bug 10081.
16802 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16803 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
16804 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
16805 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
16808 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
16809 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
16810 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
16811 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
16814 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
16815 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
16816 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
16817 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
16819 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
16820 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
16821 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16823 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
16824 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
16825 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
16826 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
16827 versions. Found by "skruffy".
16828 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
16829 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
16830 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
16833 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
16834 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
16835 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16836 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
16837 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
16838 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
16839 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
16840 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
16841 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16842 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
16843 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
16845 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16846 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
16847 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
16848 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
16849 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
16851 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
16852 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
16853 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
16854 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
16857 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
16858 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
16859 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16860 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
16861 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
16862 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
16863 should never have affected anyone in practice.
16865 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16866 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
16867 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
16868 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
16869 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
16870 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
16871 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
16872 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
16873 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
16874 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16875 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
16876 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
16877 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
16878 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
16879 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
16880 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
16881 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16882 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
16883 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
16884 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
16885 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
16886 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
16887 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
16888 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
16890 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
16891 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
16892 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
16893 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
16894 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16895 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
16896 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
16897 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
16898 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
16900 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
16901 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
16904 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
16905 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
16907 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
16909 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
16910 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
16911 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
16912 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
16913 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
16914 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
16916 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
16917 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
16919 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
16920 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
16921 caches don't get confused.
16922 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
16923 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16924 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
16925 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
16926 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
16927 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
16928 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
16929 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
16930 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
16931 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
16932 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
16933 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
16934 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
16935 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
16936 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16937 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
16938 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
16939 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16942 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
16943 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
16944 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
16945 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
16946 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
16948 o Removed code and features:
16949 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
16950 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
16951 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
16952 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
16953 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
16954 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
16956 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
16957 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
16958 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
16959 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
16960 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
16961 part of a fix for bug 10841.
16962 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
16963 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
16964 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
16965 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
16966 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
16967 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
16969 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
16970 Resolves ticket 11070.
16971 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
16972 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
16973 the rest of bug 10841.
16974 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
16975 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
16976 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
16977 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
16979 o Test infrastructure:
16980 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
16981 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
16982 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
16983 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
16984 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
16985 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
16986 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
16987 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
16988 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
16989 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
16991 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
16992 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
16993 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
16994 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
16995 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
16996 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
16997 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
16998 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
16999 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
17000 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
17001 invoking the other functions it calls.
17004 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
17005 Patch from Dana Koch.
17006 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
17007 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
17008 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
17009 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
17011 o Distribution (systemd):
17012 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
17013 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
17014 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
17015 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
17016 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
17017 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
17018 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
17019 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
17020 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
17021 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
17022 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
17023 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
17024 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17028 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
17029 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17030 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17031 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17032 (which does affect Tor).
17034 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17035 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17036 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17037 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17039 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17040 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17041 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17042 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17045 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
17046 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17047 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17048 the directory authorities.
17051 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17052 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17053 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17054 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17055 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17056 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17057 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
17058 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
17059 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
17060 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
17061 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
17062 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17064 o Directory authority changes:
17065 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17067 o Minor features (geoip):
17068 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17072 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
17073 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
17074 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
17075 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
17078 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
17079 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
17080 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
17081 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
17082 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
17083 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
17084 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
17085 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
17086 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
17087 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
17090 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
17091 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
17092 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
17093 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
17094 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
17095 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
17096 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
17097 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
17101 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
17102 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
17103 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
17104 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
17105 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
17106 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
17107 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
17108 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
17109 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17110 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
17111 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
17112 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
17113 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
17116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17120 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
17121 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
17122 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
17123 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
17124 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
17125 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
17126 of RAM, and several others.
17128 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17129 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
17130 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
17131 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
17132 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
17134 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
17135 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
17136 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
17137 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
17140 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17141 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
17142 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
17143 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
17144 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
17145 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
17146 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17147 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
17148 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
17149 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
17150 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
17151 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
17152 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
17153 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
17154 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
17155 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
17156 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
17157 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
17158 Resolves ticket 11438.
17160 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
17161 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
17162 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
17163 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
17164 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
17165 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17167 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17168 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
17169 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17171 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17172 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
17173 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17175 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17176 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
17177 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
17178 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17180 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17181 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
17182 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
17184 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17185 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
17186 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17189 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
17190 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
17191 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
17192 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
17195 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17196 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
17197 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
17198 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
17200 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17201 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
17202 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
17203 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
17205 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17206 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
17207 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
17211 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
17212 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
17213 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
17214 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
17216 o Major features (client security):
17217 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
17218 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
17219 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
17220 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
17221 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
17222 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
17225 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
17226 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
17227 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
17228 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17230 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17231 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
17232 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
17233 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
17234 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
17237 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
17238 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
17240 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
17241 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
17242 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
17243 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
17244 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
17245 GeoLite2 Country database.
17248 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
17249 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
17250 bugfix on every released Tor.
17251 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
17252 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
17253 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
17254 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17255 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
17256 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
17257 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
17258 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
17259 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
17260 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17261 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
17262 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
17263 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17264 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
17265 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17267 o Documentation fixes:
17268 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
17269 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17272 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
17273 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
17274 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
17275 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
17276 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
17277 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
17278 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
17280 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
17281 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
17284 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
17285 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
17286 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
17287 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
17288 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
17289 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
17290 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
17291 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
17293 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
17294 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17295 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
17296 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
17297 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
17298 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
17301 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
17302 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17303 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
17304 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
17305 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
17308 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
17309 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
17310 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
17311 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
17312 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
17313 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
17314 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
17315 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
17317 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
17318 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
17319 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
17320 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
17321 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
17322 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
17323 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
17324 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
17325 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
17326 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
17327 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
17328 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
17329 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
17330 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
17331 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
17332 security, and privacy fixes.
17334 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
17335 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
17336 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
17337 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
17338 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
17339 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
17340 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
17341 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
17342 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
17343 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
17344 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
17346 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
17347 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
17348 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
17350 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
17352 o Major features (better link encryption):
17353 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
17354 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
17355 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
17356 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
17357 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
17358 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
17361 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
17362 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
17363 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
17364 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
17366 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
17368 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
17369 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
17370 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
17371 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
17372 them to solve bug 6033.)
17374 o Major features (relay performance):
17375 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
17376 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
17377 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
17378 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
17379 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
17380 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
17381 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
17382 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
17383 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
17384 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
17385 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
17386 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
17387 Implements ticket 9574.
17389 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
17390 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
17391 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
17392 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
17393 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
17394 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
17395 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
17396 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
17397 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
17398 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
17399 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
17400 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
17401 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
17402 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
17403 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
17404 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
17406 o Major features (use of guards):
17407 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
17408 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
17409 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
17410 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
17411 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
17412 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
17413 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
17414 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
17415 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
17416 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
17417 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
17418 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
17419 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
17420 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17422 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
17423 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
17424 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
17425 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
17427 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
17428 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
17431 o Major features (geoip database):
17432 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
17433 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
17434 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
17435 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
17436 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
17437 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
17439 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
17441 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17443 o Major features (IPv6):
17444 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
17445 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
17446 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
17447 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
17448 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
17449 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
17450 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
17451 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
17452 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
17453 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
17454 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
17455 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
17456 revised in proposal 208.
17457 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
17458 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
17459 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
17461 o Major features (directory authorities):
17462 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
17463 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
17465 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
17466 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
17467 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
17468 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
17469 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
17470 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
17471 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
17472 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
17473 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
17474 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
17475 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
17477 o Major features (build and portability):
17478 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
17479 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
17480 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
17481 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
17482 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
17483 fixes by Jim Meyering.
17484 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
17485 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
17486 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
17487 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
17488 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
17489 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
17491 o Security features:
17492 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
17493 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
17494 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
17495 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
17496 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
17497 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
17498 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
17499 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
17500 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
17503 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
17504 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
17505 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
17506 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
17507 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
17508 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
17509 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
17510 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
17511 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17512 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
17513 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
17514 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
17515 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
17516 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
17517 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17518 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
17519 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
17520 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17522 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
17523 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
17524 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
17525 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
17527 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
17528 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
17529 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
17531 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
17532 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
17533 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17534 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
17535 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
17536 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17537 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
17538 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
17539 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
17541 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
17542 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17544 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
17545 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
17546 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
17547 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
17548 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
17549 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
17550 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
17551 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
17552 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
17553 last time we raised it).
17554 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
17555 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
17556 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
17558 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17559 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
17560 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
17561 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
17562 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
17563 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
17564 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
17565 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17566 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
17567 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
17568 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
17569 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
17570 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17572 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
17573 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
17574 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
17575 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
17576 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
17577 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
17578 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
17579 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
17580 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17581 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
17582 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
17583 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
17584 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
17586 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
17587 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
17588 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
17589 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
17590 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
17591 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
17592 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
17593 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
17594 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17596 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
17597 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
17598 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
17599 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
17600 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
17601 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
17602 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
17603 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
17604 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
17605 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
17606 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
17607 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
17608 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
17609 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
17610 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
17611 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
17612 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
17615 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
17616 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
17617 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
17618 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17620 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
17621 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
17622 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
17623 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
17625 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
17626 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
17627 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
17628 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
17629 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
17630 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
17633 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
17634 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
17635 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
17636 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
17637 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
17638 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
17639 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17641 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
17642 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
17643 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
17644 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17646 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17647 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
17648 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
17649 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
17650 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17651 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
17652 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
17653 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17655 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
17656 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
17657 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17659 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
17660 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
17661 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17663 o Internal abstraction features:
17664 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
17665 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
17666 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
17667 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
17668 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
17669 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
17670 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
17671 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
17672 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
17673 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
17674 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
17675 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
17676 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
17677 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
17678 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
17679 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
17680 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
17682 o New build requirements:
17683 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
17684 strongly recommended.
17685 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
17686 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
17687 from a source distribution.)
17689 o Minor features (protocol):
17690 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
17691 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
17693 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
17694 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
17695 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
17696 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
17697 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
17698 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
17699 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
17700 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
17701 closes ticket 7199.
17702 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
17703 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
17705 o Minor features (security):
17706 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
17707 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
17708 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
17709 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
17710 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
17711 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
17712 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
17713 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
17714 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
17716 o Minor features (control protocol):
17717 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
17719 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
17720 Implements ticket 4971.
17721 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
17722 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
17723 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
17724 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
17725 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
17727 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
17728 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
17730 o Minor features (path selection):
17731 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
17732 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
17733 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
17734 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
17735 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
17736 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
17737 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
17738 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
17739 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
17740 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
17741 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
17742 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
17743 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
17744 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
17746 o Minor features (hidden services):
17747 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
17748 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
17749 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
17750 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
17751 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
17752 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
17753 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
17754 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
17755 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
17756 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
17757 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
17758 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
17759 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
17761 o Minor features (clients):
17762 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
17763 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
17764 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
17765 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
17766 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
17767 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
17768 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
17769 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
17770 the ORPort and the DirPort.
17772 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
17773 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
17774 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
17775 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
17776 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
17777 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
17778 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
17779 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
17780 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
17781 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
17782 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
17783 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
17784 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
17785 Implements part of proposal 222.
17787 o Minor features (bridges):
17788 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
17789 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
17790 bugs 1913 and 1992.
17791 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
17792 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
17793 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
17794 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
17795 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
17796 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
17797 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
17798 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
17799 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
17800 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
17801 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
17803 o Minor features (relays):
17804 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
17805 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
17807 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
17808 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
17809 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
17810 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
17811 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
17812 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
17813 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
17814 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
17815 connect to the wrong addresses.
17816 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
17817 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
17818 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
17819 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
17822 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
17823 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
17824 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
17825 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
17826 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
17827 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
17829 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17830 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
17831 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
17832 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
17834 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
17835 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
17836 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
17837 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
17838 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
17839 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
17841 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
17842 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
17843 Implements ticket 8151.
17844 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
17845 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
17846 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
17847 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
17849 o Minor features (path bias detection):
17850 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
17851 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
17852 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
17853 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
17854 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
17855 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
17856 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
17857 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
17858 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
17859 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
17860 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
17861 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
17862 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
17863 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
17864 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
17865 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
17866 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
17867 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
17868 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
17869 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
17870 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
17871 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
17872 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
17873 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
17874 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
17875 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
17876 detection capability loss.
17878 o Minor features (build):
17879 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
17880 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
17881 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
17883 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
17884 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
17885 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17887 o Build improvements (autotools):
17888 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
17889 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
17890 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
17892 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
17893 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
17894 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
17895 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
17897 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
17898 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
17899 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
17900 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
17901 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
17902 than to perform erroneously.
17903 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
17905 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
17906 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
17907 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
17909 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
17910 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
17911 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
17912 hard-to-track-down errors.
17913 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
17914 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
17915 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
17916 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
17917 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
17918 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
17919 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
17920 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17921 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
17922 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
17923 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
17925 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
17926 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
17927 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
17928 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
17929 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
17930 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
17931 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
17932 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
17933 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
17934 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
17936 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
17937 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
17938 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
17939 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
17940 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
17941 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
17942 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
17943 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
17944 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
17945 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
17946 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
17947 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
17948 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
17950 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
17951 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
17952 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
17953 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
17954 or at least make it more diagnosable.
17955 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
17956 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
17957 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
17958 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
17960 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
17961 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
17962 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
17963 part of ticket 6736.
17964 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
17965 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
17966 Resolves ticket 6758.
17967 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
17968 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
17969 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
17970 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17971 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
17972 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
17973 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
17975 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
17976 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
17977 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
17978 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17980 o Minor features (testing):
17981 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
17982 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
17984 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
17985 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
17986 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
17989 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
17990 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
17992 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
17993 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
17994 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
17995 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
17996 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
17997 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
17998 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
17999 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18000 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18001 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
18002 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
18003 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
18004 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
18005 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
18006 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
18007 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
18008 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
18010 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
18011 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
18012 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
18013 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
18014 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
18015 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
18016 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
18017 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
18018 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
18019 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
18020 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
18021 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
18022 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
18023 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
18024 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
18025 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
18026 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
18027 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18028 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
18029 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
18032 o Minor fixes (config options):
18033 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
18034 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
18035 or we just won't work.)
18036 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
18037 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
18038 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18039 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18040 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18041 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18042 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18043 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18044 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
18045 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
18046 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
18047 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18048 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18049 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
18050 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
18051 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18052 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
18053 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
18054 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
18056 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
18057 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
18058 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
18060 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
18061 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
18062 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
18063 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
18065 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
18066 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
18067 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
18068 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
18069 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
18070 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18071 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
18072 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
18073 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
18074 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
18075 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18076 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
18077 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
18078 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
18079 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
18080 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
18083 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
18084 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
18085 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
18086 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
18087 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
18088 Should help resolve bug 8235.
18089 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
18090 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
18091 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
18092 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18093 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
18094 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
18095 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
18096 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
18097 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
18098 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
18099 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18101 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18102 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
18103 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
18104 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
18105 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
18106 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
18107 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
18108 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
18110 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18111 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
18112 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
18113 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
18115 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18116 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
18117 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
18118 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
18119 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
18121 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
18122 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
18123 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
18124 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18125 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
18126 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18128 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18129 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
18130 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
18131 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
18132 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
18133 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
18134 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
18135 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
18136 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
18138 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18139 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
18140 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
18141 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
18142 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18143 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
18144 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
18145 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
18146 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
18147 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
18148 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
18149 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
18151 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
18152 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
18153 this is CID 718634.
18154 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
18155 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
18156 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
18157 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
18159 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
18160 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
18162 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
18163 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
18164 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
18165 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
18166 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
18167 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
18168 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
18169 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18170 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
18171 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
18172 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
18173 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18174 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
18175 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
18176 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18177 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
18178 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
18179 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
18181 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
18182 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
18183 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
18184 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
18185 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18186 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
18187 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
18188 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
18189 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
18190 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18191 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
18192 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
18193 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
18196 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
18197 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
18198 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
18199 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
18200 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
18202 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
18203 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
18204 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
18205 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
18206 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
18207 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18208 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
18209 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
18210 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
18213 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18214 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
18215 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18216 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18218 o Documentation fixes:
18219 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
18220 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
18221 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
18222 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
18223 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
18224 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
18225 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
18227 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
18228 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
18229 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
18230 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
18231 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
18232 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
18233 message is logged at notice, not at info.
18234 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
18235 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
18236 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
18237 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
18238 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
18239 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
18241 o Removed features:
18242 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
18243 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
18244 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
18246 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
18247 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
18248 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
18249 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
18250 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
18251 compatibility code.
18254 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
18255 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
18257 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
18258 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
18260 o Code simplification:
18261 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
18262 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
18263 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
18264 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
18266 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
18267 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
18269 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
18270 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
18271 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
18272 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
18273 present the same extensions.)
18274 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
18276 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
18277 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
18278 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
18279 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
18281 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
18282 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
18283 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
18284 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
18287 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
18289 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
18290 and the different handshakes it supports.
18291 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
18292 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
18293 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
18294 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
18296 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
18297 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
18298 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
18299 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
18300 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
18301 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
18302 testable, and a little less fragile too.
18303 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
18304 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
18305 Implements ticket 5529.
18306 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
18307 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
18308 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
18311 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
18312 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
18313 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
18314 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
18315 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
18316 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18317 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
18318 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
18319 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
18320 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
18321 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
18322 any encoding is overkill.
18323 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
18324 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18325 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
18326 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
18327 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
18328 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
18329 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
18330 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
18331 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
18334 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
18335 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
18336 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
18337 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
18338 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
18339 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
18340 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
18341 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
18343 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
18344 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
18345 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
18346 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
18347 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
18348 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
18349 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
18350 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
18351 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
18352 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
18353 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
18355 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
18356 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
18357 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
18358 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
18359 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
18360 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
18361 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
18362 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
18363 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
18364 describes microdescriptors.
18366 o Major features (build hardening):
18367 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
18369 o Major features (relay scaling):
18370 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
18371 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
18372 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
18373 much faster than other AES implementations.
18374 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
18375 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
18376 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
18377 Resolves ticket 4526.
18378 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
18379 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
18381 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
18382 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
18383 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
18384 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
18386 o Major features (blocking resistance):
18387 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
18389 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
18390 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
18391 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
18392 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
18393 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
18394 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
18395 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
18396 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
18397 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
18398 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
18399 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
18400 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
18401 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
18402 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
18403 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
18404 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
18405 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
18406 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
18407 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
18409 o Major features (pluggable transports):
18410 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
18411 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
18412 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
18413 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
18415 o Major features (DoS resistance):
18416 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
18417 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
18418 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
18419 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
18420 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
18421 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
18422 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
18423 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
18424 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
18425 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
18426 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
18428 o Major features (hidden services):
18429 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
18430 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
18431 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
18433 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
18434 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
18435 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
18436 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
18437 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
18438 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
18440 o Major features (IPv6):
18441 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
18442 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
18443 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
18444 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
18445 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
18447 o Major features (directory authorities):
18448 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
18449 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
18450 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
18451 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
18452 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
18453 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
18454 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
18455 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
18456 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
18457 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
18459 o Major features (performance):
18460 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
18461 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
18462 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
18463 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
18464 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
18465 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
18466 side of Proposal 174.
18467 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
18468 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
18469 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
18470 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
18471 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
18472 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
18473 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
18474 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
18475 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
18476 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
18477 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
18478 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
18480 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
18481 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
18482 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
18483 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
18484 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
18487 o Major features (relays):
18488 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
18489 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
18490 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
18491 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
18492 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
18493 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
18494 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
18496 o Major features (stream isolation):
18497 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
18498 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
18499 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
18500 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
18501 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
18502 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
18503 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
18504 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
18505 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
18506 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
18507 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
18508 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
18509 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
18510 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
18512 o Major features (bufferevents):
18513 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
18514 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
18515 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
18516 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
18517 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
18518 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
18519 zero-copy transports where available.
18520 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
18521 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
18522 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
18523 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
18524 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
18525 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
18527 o Major features (path selection):
18528 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
18529 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
18530 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
18531 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
18534 o Major features (port forwarding):
18535 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
18536 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
18537 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
18538 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
18539 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
18540 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
18542 o Major features (logging):
18543 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
18544 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
18545 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
18546 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
18547 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
18548 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
18549 Implements enhancement 1668.
18551 o Major features (other):
18552 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
18553 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
18554 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
18555 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
18556 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
18557 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
18558 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
18559 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
18560 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
18561 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
18562 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
18563 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
18564 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
18565 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
18566 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
18567 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
18568 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
18569 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
18570 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
18571 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
18573 o New directory authorities:
18574 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18575 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18577 o Security/privacy fixes:
18578 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
18579 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
18580 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18581 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
18582 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
18583 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
18584 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18585 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
18586 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
18587 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
18588 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
18589 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
18590 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
18591 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
18592 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
18593 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18594 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18595 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18596 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18597 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18598 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18599 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18600 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18601 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18602 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18603 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18604 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18605 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18606 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18607 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18608 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18610 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
18611 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
18612 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
18613 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
18614 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18615 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18616 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18617 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18618 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
18619 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
18620 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
18621 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
18622 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18623 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18626 o Major bugfixes (clients):
18627 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
18628 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
18629 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
18630 which introduced predicted ports.
18631 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
18632 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
18633 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
18634 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
18635 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
18636 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
18637 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18638 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
18639 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
18641 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
18642 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
18643 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
18644 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
18645 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
18646 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
18648 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
18649 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
18650 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
18651 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
18652 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18653 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
18654 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
18655 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
18656 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
18657 documents entirely.
18659 o Major bugfixes (relays):
18660 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
18661 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
18662 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
18663 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
18664 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
18665 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
18666 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
18667 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
18668 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
18669 immensely in tracking this bug down.
18670 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18671 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18672 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18673 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
18674 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
18675 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
18676 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18678 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18679 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
18680 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
18681 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
18682 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
18683 cells were introduced.
18684 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
18685 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
18686 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
18687 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
18689 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18690 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
18691 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
18692 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
18693 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
18694 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
18695 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
18696 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
18697 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
18698 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
18699 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
18700 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
18701 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
18702 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
18703 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
18704 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
18705 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
18706 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
18707 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
18708 Fixes part of bug 3825.
18710 o Changes to default torrc file:
18711 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
18712 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
18714 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
18715 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
18716 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
18718 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
18719 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
18720 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
18722 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18723 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
18724 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
18725 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
18726 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
18727 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
18728 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
18729 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
18730 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
18731 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
18732 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
18733 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
18734 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
18735 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
18736 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
18737 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
18740 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
18741 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
18742 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
18743 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
18744 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
18745 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
18746 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
18747 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
18748 sure. Closes bug 5139.
18749 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
18750 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
18751 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
18752 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
18753 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
18755 o Minor features (IPv6):
18756 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
18757 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
18758 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
18759 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
18760 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
18761 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
18763 o Minor features (hidden services):
18764 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
18765 Required by fix for bug 3460.
18766 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
18767 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
18768 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
18769 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
18770 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
18771 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
18772 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
18773 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
18774 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
18776 o Minor features (relays):
18777 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
18778 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
18779 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
18780 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18781 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18782 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
18783 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
18784 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
18785 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
18786 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
18787 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
18790 o Minor features (new config options):
18791 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
18792 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
18793 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
18794 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
18795 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
18796 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
18797 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
18798 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
18799 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
18800 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
18801 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
18802 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
18804 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
18805 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
18806 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
18807 Implements issue 933.
18808 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
18809 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
18810 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
18811 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
18812 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
18813 implements ticket 3439.
18814 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
18815 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
18816 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
18817 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
18818 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
18819 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
18820 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
18821 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
18823 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
18824 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
18825 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
18826 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
18827 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
18828 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
18829 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
18830 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
18831 appending to the list.
18832 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
18833 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
18834 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
18835 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
18838 o Minor features (controller, new events):
18839 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
18840 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
18841 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
18842 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
18843 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
18844 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
18846 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
18847 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
18848 circuit-status' control-port command.
18849 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
18850 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
18851 user. Implements ticket 1692.
18852 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
18853 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
18854 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
18856 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
18857 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
18858 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
18859 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
18860 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
18861 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
18862 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
18863 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
18864 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
18866 o Minor features (controller, other):
18867 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
18868 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
18869 part of ticket 3457.
18870 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
18871 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
18872 file. Resolves bug 1101.
18873 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
18874 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
18876 o Minor features (log messages):
18877 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
18878 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
18879 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
18880 please let us know about it.
18881 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
18882 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
18883 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
18884 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
18885 Resolves ticket 2474.
18886 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
18887 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
18889 o Minor features (other):
18890 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
18891 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
18892 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
18893 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
18895 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
18896 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
18897 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
18898 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
18899 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
18900 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
18901 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
18903 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
18904 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
18905 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
18906 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
18907 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
18909 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
18910 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
18911 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
18912 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
18913 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
18914 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
18915 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18916 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
18917 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18918 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
18919 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
18920 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
18921 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
18922 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
18923 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
18924 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
18927 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
18928 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
18929 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
18930 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
18931 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
18932 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
18933 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18934 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
18935 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
18937 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
18938 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
18939 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
18940 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
18941 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
18942 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
18943 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18944 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
18945 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
18946 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18948 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18949 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
18950 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18951 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
18952 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
18953 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
18954 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18955 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
18956 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
18958 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
18959 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
18960 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18961 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
18962 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
18963 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
18964 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
18965 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
18966 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
18968 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
18969 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
18970 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
18971 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
18972 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
18973 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
18974 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
18976 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
18977 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
18978 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
18979 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
18981 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18982 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
18983 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
18984 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18985 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
18986 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
18987 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
18988 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
18989 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
18990 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
18991 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
18992 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
18995 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
18996 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
18997 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18998 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
18999 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
19000 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
19002 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
19003 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
19004 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19005 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19006 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
19007 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19008 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19009 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19010 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19011 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19012 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19013 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
19014 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
19015 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
19016 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
19018 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
19019 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19020 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19021 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19022 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19023 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19025 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
19026 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
19027 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
19028 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
19029 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
19030 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19031 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19032 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19033 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19034 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19035 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19036 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19037 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19038 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19039 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19041 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
19042 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19043 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19044 be disabled using the new
19045 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19046 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19047 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19048 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19049 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19050 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19051 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19053 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
19054 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19055 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19056 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19057 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
19058 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
19059 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
19061 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
19062 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
19063 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
19064 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
19065 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19066 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
19067 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
19068 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
19070 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
19071 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
19072 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
19073 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19074 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
19075 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
19076 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19077 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19079 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19080 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
19081 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
19082 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
19083 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
19084 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
19085 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
19086 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
19088 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
19089 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
19090 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
19091 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
19093 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
19094 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
19095 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
19097 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
19098 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
19100 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
19101 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
19102 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
19103 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
19104 case for flushing marked connections.
19105 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
19106 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
19107 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
19108 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
19109 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
19110 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19111 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
19112 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
19113 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
19114 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19116 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19117 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
19118 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
19119 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
19120 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
19121 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
19122 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
19123 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
19124 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
19125 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
19126 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
19128 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
19129 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19130 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
19131 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
19132 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19134 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
19135 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
19136 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
19137 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
19138 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19139 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
19140 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
19141 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
19142 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
19143 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
19144 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
19145 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
19146 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
19147 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
19148 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
19149 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
19151 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
19152 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
19153 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
19154 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19155 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
19156 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
19157 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19158 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
19159 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19160 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
19161 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
19162 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
19163 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
19164 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
19165 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
19166 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
19167 Implements ticket 3264.
19168 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
19170 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
19171 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
19172 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
19173 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
19174 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
19175 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
19177 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
19178 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
19179 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19180 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
19181 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
19182 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19183 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
19184 them from the other auths.
19185 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
19186 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
19187 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
19188 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19189 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
19190 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
19191 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
19192 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
19196 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
19197 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
19198 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
19200 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
19201 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
19202 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
19203 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
19204 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
19205 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
19206 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
19207 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
19209 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
19210 ./src/test/bench binary.
19211 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
19212 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
19213 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
19214 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
19217 o Build improvements:
19218 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
19219 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
19220 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
19221 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
19222 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
19223 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
19224 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
19225 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19226 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
19227 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
19228 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
19229 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
19230 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
19231 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
19232 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
19233 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
19234 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
19235 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
19236 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
19237 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
19238 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
19240 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
19242 o Build requirements:
19243 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
19244 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
19245 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
19246 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
19247 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
19248 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
19249 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
19250 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
19251 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
19252 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
19253 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
19254 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
19255 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
19257 o Build fixes (compile/link):
19258 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
19259 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
19261 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
19262 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
19263 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
19264 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
19265 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
19266 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
19267 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19268 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
19269 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19271 o Build fixes (other):
19272 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
19273 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
19275 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
19276 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
19277 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
19278 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19279 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
19280 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
19281 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
19282 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
19284 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
19285 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
19288 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
19289 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
19290 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
19291 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
19292 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
19293 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
19294 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
19295 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19297 o Code refactoring (safety):
19298 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
19299 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
19300 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
19301 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
19302 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
19303 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
19304 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
19305 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
19306 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
19307 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
19308 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
19309 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
19311 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
19312 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
19313 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
19314 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
19315 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
19316 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
19317 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
19318 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
19319 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
19320 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
19321 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
19322 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
19323 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
19324 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
19325 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
19326 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
19327 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
19328 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
19330 o Code refactoring (separate):
19331 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
19332 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
19333 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
19335 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
19336 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
19339 o Code refactoring (name changes):
19340 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
19341 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
19342 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
19343 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
19344 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
19345 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
19346 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
19348 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
19349 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
19350 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
19351 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
19352 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
19353 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
19354 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
19355 invalid value, rather than just -1.
19356 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
19357 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
19358 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
19360 o Code refactoring (other):
19361 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
19362 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
19364 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
19365 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
19366 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
19367 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
19368 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
19369 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
19370 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
19371 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
19372 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
19373 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
19374 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
19375 our library structure used to force them to link it.
19377 o Removed features and files:
19378 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
19379 it would be a bad idea to start.
19380 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
19382 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
19383 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
19384 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
19385 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
19386 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
19387 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
19388 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
19389 are no longer in use as relays.
19390 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
19391 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
19392 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
19393 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
19394 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
19395 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
19399 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
19400 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
19401 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
19403 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
19404 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
19406 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
19407 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
19408 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
19410 o Documentation fixes:
19411 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
19412 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
19413 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
19414 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
19415 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
19416 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
19417 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
19418 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
19421 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
19422 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
19426 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
19427 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
19428 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19429 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
19430 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
19431 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
19432 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
19436 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
19437 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
19438 attack that could in theory leak path information.
19441 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
19442 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
19443 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19444 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
19445 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
19446 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
19447 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
19448 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
19449 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
19450 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
19451 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
19452 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
19453 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
19454 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19457 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
19458 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19459 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19463 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19464 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19465 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19466 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19467 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19468 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19469 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19470 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19471 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19472 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19473 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19476 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19477 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19480 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19481 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19484 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
19485 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
19486 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
19487 and fixes several crash bugs.
19489 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
19490 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
19491 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
19492 those packages and upgrade anyway.
19494 o Directory authority changes:
19495 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19496 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19500 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19501 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19502 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19503 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19504 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19505 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19506 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19507 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19508 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19509 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19510 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19511 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19512 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19513 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19514 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19515 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19516 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19517 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19518 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19519 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19520 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19521 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19522 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19523 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19524 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19525 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19526 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
19529 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19530 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19531 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19532 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19534 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19535 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19537 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19538 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19539 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19540 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19541 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19542 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19543 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19544 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19547 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19548 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19549 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19550 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19551 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19552 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19553 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19554 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19555 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19556 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
19557 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
19558 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
19559 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
19560 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
19561 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
19562 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
19563 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19564 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19565 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19566 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19567 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19568 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19569 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19570 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19571 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19572 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19573 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19574 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19575 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19576 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19577 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19578 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19579 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19580 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19581 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19582 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19583 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19584 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19585 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19586 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19587 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
19588 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19589 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19590 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19591 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19592 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19594 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19595 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19596 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19597 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19598 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19599 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19600 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19601 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19602 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19603 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19604 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19605 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19606 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19607 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19608 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19611 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19612 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19613 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19614 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19616 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19619 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
19620 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
19621 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
19622 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
19623 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
19624 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
19625 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
19628 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
19629 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
19630 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
19632 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
19633 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
19634 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
19635 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
19636 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
19637 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
19638 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
19639 (which Tor does not do by default).
19641 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
19642 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
19643 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
19644 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
19645 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19647 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
19648 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
19649 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
19652 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
19653 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
19654 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
19655 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
19656 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
19658 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
19659 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
19662 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19663 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19664 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19665 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19666 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19667 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19668 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19669 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19671 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19672 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19673 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19674 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19675 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19676 close based on processing a cell on it.
19677 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19678 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19679 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19680 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19681 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19682 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19683 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19684 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
19685 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
19686 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
19687 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19688 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19689 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19690 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19691 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
19694 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19695 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19696 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19697 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19698 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19699 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19700 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19702 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19703 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19704 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19705 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19706 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19707 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19708 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19709 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19710 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19711 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19712 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19713 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19714 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19715 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19716 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
19717 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19718 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
19719 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
19720 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19721 Reported by "troll_un".
19722 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19723 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19724 Reported by "troll_un".
19725 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19726 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19727 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19728 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19731 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19732 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19733 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19734 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19735 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19736 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19737 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19738 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19739 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19740 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19741 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19743 o Packaging changes:
19744 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19745 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19748 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
19749 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19750 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19751 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19752 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19754 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
19755 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
19757 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19758 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19759 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19760 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19761 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19762 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19763 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19764 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19765 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19768 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19771 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
19772 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
19773 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
19775 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
19776 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
19777 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
19778 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
19779 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
19780 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
19781 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
19782 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
19783 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
19784 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
19785 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
19786 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
19787 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
19789 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
19790 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
19791 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
19792 currently connected to them.
19794 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
19795 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
19796 remain; see for example proposal 188.
19798 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
19799 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19800 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19801 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19802 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19803 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19804 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19805 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19806 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19807 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19808 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19809 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
19810 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
19811 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
19812 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
19813 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
19814 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
19815 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
19818 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
19819 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
19820 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
19821 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
19822 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
19823 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
19824 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
19825 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19826 when bridges were introduced.
19827 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19828 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19829 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19830 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19831 Found by "frosty_un".
19834 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
19835 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
19837 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
19838 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
19839 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
19840 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
19841 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
19842 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
19843 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
19846 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
19847 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
19848 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
19849 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
19850 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
19851 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
19852 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
19853 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
19854 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
19855 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
19856 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
19857 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
19858 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
19859 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
19860 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
19861 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
19862 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
19863 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
19865 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
19866 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
19867 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
19868 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19869 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
19870 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
19871 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
19872 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
19873 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
19874 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
19875 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
19876 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19879 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19880 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19881 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
19882 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19885 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
19886 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19887 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19888 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19889 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19891 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19892 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
19893 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
19894 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
19895 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
19896 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
19897 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
19898 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
19899 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
19900 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19902 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19903 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19904 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19905 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19906 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19907 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19908 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19909 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19910 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19911 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19912 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19913 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19914 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19915 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19916 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19917 Found by "frosty_un".
19918 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
19919 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
19920 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
19921 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
19922 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
19923 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19924 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
19925 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
19926 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
19927 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
19928 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
19929 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
19930 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19931 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
19932 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
19933 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
19934 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
19935 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
19936 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
19938 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19939 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19940 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19941 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19942 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19943 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19944 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19945 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19947 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
19948 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
19949 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
19950 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
19951 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
19952 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
19953 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
19954 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
19955 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
19956 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
19957 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19958 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19960 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
19961 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19962 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
19963 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19964 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
19965 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19966 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
19967 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
19968 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
19970 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
19972 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
19973 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
19974 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
19975 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19976 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
19977 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
19978 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
19979 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19981 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
19982 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
19983 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
19984 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
19985 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
19987 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19988 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
19989 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
19990 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
19991 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19994 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
19995 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
19996 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
19997 reachable from Iran again.
20000 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20001 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20002 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20004 o Minor features (security):
20005 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20006 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20007 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20008 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20009 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20010 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20011 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20012 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20013 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20014 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20017 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20018 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20019 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20020 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20021 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20022 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20023 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20024 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20025 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20027 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20028 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20029 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20030 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20031 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20032 raised by bug 3898.
20033 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20034 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20035 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20036 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20037 fixes part of bug 2442.
20038 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20039 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20040 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20042 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20043 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20044 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20045 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20046 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20049 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20050 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20051 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20052 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20053 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20054 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20057 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
20058 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
20059 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
20060 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
20061 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
20062 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
20063 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
20064 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
20065 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
20066 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
20068 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
20069 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
20070 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
20071 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
20072 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
20073 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
20074 many many other features and bugfixes.
20076 o Major features (client performance):
20077 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
20078 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
20079 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
20080 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
20081 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
20082 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
20084 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
20085 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
20086 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
20087 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
20088 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
20089 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
20090 the first implementation of this feature.
20092 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
20093 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
20094 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
20095 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
20096 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
20097 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
20098 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
20099 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
20100 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
20101 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
20102 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
20103 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
20104 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
20105 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
20106 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
20107 file. Implements ticket 1296.
20109 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
20110 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
20111 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
20112 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
20113 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
20114 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
20115 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
20116 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
20117 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
20118 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
20119 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
20120 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
20121 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
20122 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
20123 they first get the Guard flag.
20124 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
20125 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
20126 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
20127 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
20128 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
20129 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
20130 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
20131 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
20133 o Major features (relays control their load better):
20134 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
20135 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
20136 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
20137 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
20138 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
20139 based on a variant of proposal 163.
20140 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
20141 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
20142 but never per-conn write limits.
20143 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
20144 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
20145 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
20146 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
20148 o Major features (controllers):
20149 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
20150 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
20151 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
20152 contributions to the network.
20153 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
20154 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
20155 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
20157 o Major features (directory authorities):
20158 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
20159 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
20160 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
20162 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
20163 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
20164 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
20165 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
20166 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
20167 download consensus + microdescriptors".
20168 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
20169 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
20170 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
20171 hash algorithm in the future.
20172 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
20173 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
20174 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
20176 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
20177 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
20178 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
20179 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
20180 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
20181 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
20182 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
20183 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
20184 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
20185 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
20186 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
20187 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
20188 connections to directory servers.
20189 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
20190 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
20191 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
20192 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
20193 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
20194 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
20195 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
20196 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
20197 information, or fetch directory information.
20198 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
20199 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
20200 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
20201 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
20202 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
20204 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
20205 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
20206 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
20207 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
20208 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
20209 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
20210 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
20211 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
20212 the network changes.
20213 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
20214 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
20216 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
20217 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
20218 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
20219 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
20220 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
20221 unless you really want your Tor to break.
20222 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
20223 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
20224 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
20225 - When StrictNodes is 1:
20226 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
20227 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
20228 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
20229 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
20230 reachability self-tests.
20231 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
20232 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
20233 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
20234 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
20235 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
20237 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
20238 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20239 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
20241 o Major features (misc):
20242 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
20243 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
20244 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
20245 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
20246 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
20247 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
20248 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
20249 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
20250 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
20251 part of ticket 3076.
20252 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
20253 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
20254 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
20256 o Code security improvements:
20257 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20258 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20259 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20260 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20261 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20262 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20263 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
20264 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
20265 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
20266 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20267 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
20268 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
20269 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
20270 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
20271 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
20272 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
20273 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20274 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
20275 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
20276 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
20277 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
20278 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
20279 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
20280 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
20281 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
20282 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
20283 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
20284 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
20286 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
20287 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
20288 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
20289 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
20290 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
20291 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
20292 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
20293 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20294 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20295 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20296 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20297 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20298 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20300 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
20301 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
20302 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
20304 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
20305 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
20307 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20308 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20309 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20310 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20311 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20312 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20313 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
20314 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
20315 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
20316 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
20317 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
20318 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
20319 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
20320 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
20321 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
20322 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
20323 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
20325 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
20326 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
20327 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
20329 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
20330 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
20331 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
20332 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
20333 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
20334 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
20335 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
20336 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
20337 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
20338 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
20339 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
20340 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
20341 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
20342 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
20343 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
20344 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20345 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
20346 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20347 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20349 o Privacy fixes (clients):
20350 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20351 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20352 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20353 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20354 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20355 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20356 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
20357 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
20358 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
20360 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
20361 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
20362 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
20363 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
20364 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
20365 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
20366 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
20367 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
20368 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
20369 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
20371 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
20372 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20373 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20374 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20375 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
20376 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
20377 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20378 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20379 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20380 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20381 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20382 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20383 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20385 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
20386 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
20387 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
20388 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
20389 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
20390 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
20391 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
20392 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
20393 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
20394 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20396 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
20397 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
20398 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
20399 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
20400 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
20401 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
20402 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
20404 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
20405 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
20406 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
20407 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
20408 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
20409 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
20410 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
20411 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
20412 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
20413 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
20414 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
20415 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
20416 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
20417 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
20418 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
20420 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20421 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
20422 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
20423 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
20424 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
20425 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
20426 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
20428 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
20429 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
20430 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
20431 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
20432 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
20433 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
20434 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
20435 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
20437 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
20438 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
20439 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
20440 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
20441 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
20442 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
20443 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
20444 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
20445 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
20446 the longest-lived bug prize.
20447 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
20448 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
20449 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
20450 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
20451 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
20452 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
20453 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
20454 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
20455 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
20456 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
20458 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
20459 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
20460 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
20461 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
20462 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
20463 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
20466 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20467 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
20468 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
20469 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
20470 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
20471 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
20472 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
20473 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
20474 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
20475 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
20476 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
20477 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20478 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
20479 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
20480 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
20481 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
20482 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
20483 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
20484 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
20485 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
20486 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
20487 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
20488 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
20489 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
20490 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
20491 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
20493 o Major bugfixes (misc):
20494 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
20495 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
20496 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20497 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
20498 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
20499 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20500 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20501 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20503 o Minor features (relays):
20504 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
20505 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
20506 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
20507 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
20508 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
20509 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
20510 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
20511 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
20513 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
20514 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
20515 Resolves ticket 3252.
20516 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
20517 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
20519 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
20520 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
20521 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
20522 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
20523 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
20525 o Minor features (network statistics):
20526 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
20527 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
20528 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
20529 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
20530 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
20531 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
20532 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
20533 measure download times.
20534 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20535 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
20537 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
20538 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
20539 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20540 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
20542 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
20543 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
20544 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
20546 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
20547 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
20548 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
20549 Implements ticket 2432.
20550 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
20551 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
20552 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
20553 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
20554 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
20555 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
20556 Implements enhancement 1790.
20557 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
20558 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
20560 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
20561 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
20562 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
20563 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
20564 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
20565 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
20566 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
20568 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20570 o Minor features (clients):
20571 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
20572 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
20573 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
20574 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
20576 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
20577 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
20578 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
20579 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
20580 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
20581 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
20582 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
20583 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
20585 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
20586 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
20587 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
20588 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
20589 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
20590 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
20591 SSL handshake issues.
20593 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20594 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
20595 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
20596 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
20597 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
20598 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
20599 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
20600 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
20601 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
20602 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
20603 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
20604 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
20605 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
20606 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
20607 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
20608 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
20609 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
20610 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
20611 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
20612 hour of their uptime.
20613 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
20614 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
20615 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
20616 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
20618 o Minor features (hidden services):
20619 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
20620 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
20621 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
20622 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
20623 Required by fix for bug 3000.
20624 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
20625 by fix for bug 3000.
20626 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
20627 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
20628 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
20629 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
20630 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20632 o Minor features (controller interface):
20633 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
20634 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
20635 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
20636 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
20637 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
20638 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
20639 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
20640 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
20641 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
20642 over our stored history.
20643 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
20644 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
20645 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
20647 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
20648 to the circuit build timeout.
20649 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
20650 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
20651 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
20653 o Minor features (controller protocol):
20654 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
20655 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
20656 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
20658 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
20659 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
20660 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
20661 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
20662 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
20663 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
20664 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
20665 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
20666 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
20667 arguments we do not recognize.
20669 o Minor features (more useful logging):
20670 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
20671 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
20672 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
20673 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
20674 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
20675 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
20676 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
20677 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
20678 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
20679 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
20680 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
20681 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
20682 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
20683 got suppressed since the last warning.
20684 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
20685 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
20686 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
20687 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
20688 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
20689 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
20690 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
20692 o Minor features (log domains):
20693 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
20694 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
20695 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
20697 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
20698 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
20700 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
20701 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
20702 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
20704 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
20705 during the TLS handshake.
20707 o Minor features (build process):
20708 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
20709 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
20710 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
20712 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
20713 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
20714 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
20716 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
20717 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
20718 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
20719 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
20720 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
20721 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
20723 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
20724 source files Tor was built with.
20725 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
20726 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
20727 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
20728 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
20729 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
20730 speeds up the build considerably.
20732 o Minor features (options / torrc):
20733 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
20734 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
20735 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
20736 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
20737 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
20738 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
20739 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
20740 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
20741 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
20742 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
20743 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
20744 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
20745 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
20746 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
20747 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
20748 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
20749 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
20750 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
20751 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
20752 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
20753 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
20754 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
20755 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
20756 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
20757 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
20758 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
20759 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
20761 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
20762 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
20763 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
20766 o Minor features (unit tests):
20767 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
20768 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
20769 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
20770 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
20771 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
20772 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
20774 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
20775 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
20778 o Minor features (misc):
20779 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
20780 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
20781 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
20782 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
20784 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
20785 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
20786 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
20787 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
20788 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
20790 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
20791 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
20792 open() without checking it.
20793 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
20794 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
20795 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
20796 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20798 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20799 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
20800 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
20801 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
20802 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
20803 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
20804 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
20805 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
20806 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
20807 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
20808 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
20809 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
20810 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
20811 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
20812 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
20813 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
20814 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
20815 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
20816 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
20817 based on the time during which we were active and not in
20818 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
20819 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
20820 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
20821 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
20822 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20823 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
20824 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
20825 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
20827 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
20828 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
20829 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
20830 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
20832 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20833 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
20834 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
20835 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
20836 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
20838 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
20839 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
20840 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20841 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
20842 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
20843 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
20844 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
20845 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
20846 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
20847 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
20848 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
20849 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
20850 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
20852 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20853 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
20854 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
20855 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
20856 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
20857 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
20858 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
20859 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
20860 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
20861 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
20862 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
20863 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20864 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
20865 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
20866 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
20867 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
20868 two-hop circuits are actually created.
20869 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
20870 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
20871 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
20872 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
20874 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20875 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
20876 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
20877 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
20878 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
20879 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
20880 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
20881 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
20882 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
20884 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
20885 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
20886 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
20887 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
20888 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
20889 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
20890 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
20891 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
20892 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
20893 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
20894 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
20895 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
20896 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
20899 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20900 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
20901 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
20902 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
20903 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20904 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
20905 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
20906 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
20907 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
20908 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
20909 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
20911 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20912 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20914 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
20915 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
20916 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
20917 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
20918 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20919 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
20920 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
20921 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
20923 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
20924 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
20925 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
20926 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20927 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
20928 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
20929 discovered by katmagic.
20930 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
20931 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
20933 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
20934 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20935 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20936 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20937 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20938 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20939 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20940 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20941 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20943 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
20944 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
20946 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
20947 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
20949 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
20950 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
20952 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
20953 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
20954 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
20955 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20956 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
20957 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
20958 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20959 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
20960 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
20961 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
20962 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
20963 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
20964 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
20965 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
20966 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
20968 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
20969 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
20970 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
20971 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
20972 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
20973 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
20974 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
20975 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
20976 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
20978 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
20979 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
20980 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
20982 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
20983 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
20984 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
20985 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
20987 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
20988 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20989 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20990 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20991 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20992 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
20993 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
20995 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
20996 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
20997 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
20998 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20999 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21000 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21002 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21003 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21004 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21005 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
21006 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
21007 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
21008 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
21009 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21010 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
21012 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21013 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21014 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21015 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21016 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21017 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21018 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21019 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21020 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21021 control-spec.txt said they were.
21023 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21024 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21025 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21027 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21028 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21029 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
21030 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
21031 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
21033 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21034 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21036 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
21037 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
21038 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
21039 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
21040 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
21041 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
21042 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
21044 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
21045 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21046 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21047 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21048 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
21049 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
21050 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
21051 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
21054 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21055 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21056 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21057 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21058 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21059 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21060 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21061 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21062 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21063 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21064 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21065 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21066 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21067 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21068 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
21070 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
21071 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
21072 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
21073 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
21074 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
21075 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21076 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21078 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
21079 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
21082 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21083 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21084 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21085 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21086 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21087 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21088 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
21089 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
21090 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
21091 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
21092 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
21093 fixes part of bug 3407.
21094 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21095 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
21096 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
21097 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
21098 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
21099 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
21100 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
21101 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
21102 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
21103 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
21105 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
21106 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
21107 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21108 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
21109 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
21110 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
21111 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
21112 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21113 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
21114 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
21115 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
21116 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21117 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
21118 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
21119 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21120 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21121 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21123 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
21124 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
21125 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
21126 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
21127 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
21128 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
21129 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21130 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
21131 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
21132 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
21133 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
21134 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
21136 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
21137 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
21138 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
21139 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
21140 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
21142 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
21143 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
21144 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
21145 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
21147 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
21148 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
21149 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
21150 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
21151 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
21152 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
21153 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
21154 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
21155 structures and defines in or.h for now.
21156 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
21158 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
21159 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21160 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21161 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21162 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
21163 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
21164 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
21165 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
21167 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
21168 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
21169 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
21171 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21172 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
21173 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
21174 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
21175 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
21176 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
21177 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
21178 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
21179 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
21180 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
21182 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
21184 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
21185 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
21186 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
21187 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
21188 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
21189 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
21190 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
21191 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
21192 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
21193 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
21195 o Documentation changes:
21196 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
21197 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
21199 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
21200 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
21201 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
21202 what should go in a patch.
21203 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
21205 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
21206 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
21207 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
21208 projects directory in svn.
21210 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
21211 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
21212 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
21213 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
21214 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
21215 hidden service usage.
21216 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
21217 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
21218 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
21219 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
21220 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
21223 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
21224 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
21225 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
21226 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
21227 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
21230 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
21231 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
21232 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
21233 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
21234 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
21235 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21236 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21237 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
21238 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
21239 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
21240 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
21241 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
21242 via application-level web tricks.
21243 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
21244 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
21245 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
21246 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
21247 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
21248 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
21249 send a body too). Since only server versions before
21250 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
21251 keep the workaround in place.
21252 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
21253 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
21254 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
21255 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
21256 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
21257 want to do it differently.
21258 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
21259 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
21260 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
21263 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
21264 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
21265 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
21266 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21267 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21268 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
21271 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21272 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21273 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21274 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21275 the rest of bug 1074.
21276 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21277 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21278 Found by "piebeer".
21279 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21280 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21281 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21282 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21283 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21284 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21285 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21288 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21290 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21293 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21294 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21295 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
21296 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21297 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21298 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21299 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21300 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21301 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21302 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21303 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21305 o Packaging changes:
21306 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21307 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21308 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21309 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
21310 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
21311 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21314 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
21315 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
21316 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
21317 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
21318 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21320 o Major bugfixes (security):
21321 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21322 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21323 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21325 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21326 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21327 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21328 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21329 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21330 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21331 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21332 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21334 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21335 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21336 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21337 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21338 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21339 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21340 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21341 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21342 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21343 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21344 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21345 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21346 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21347 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21350 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21351 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21352 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21353 bug reported by doorss.
21354 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21355 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21356 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21357 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21358 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21360 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21361 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21362 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21363 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
21364 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21367 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21368 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21371 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21372 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21373 Automake 1.7 or later.
21374 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21375 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21376 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21377 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21380 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
21381 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21382 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
21383 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
21387 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21388 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21389 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21390 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21392 o Directory authority changes:
21393 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21396 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21399 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
21400 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
21401 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
21402 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
21403 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
21406 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
21407 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
21408 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
21409 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
21410 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21411 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
21412 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
21413 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
21414 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
21415 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21416 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
21417 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21418 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
21419 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
21420 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
21421 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
21422 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
21423 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21424 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
21425 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
21426 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
21427 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
21428 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
21431 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
21432 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
21433 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
21434 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
21436 o New directory authorities:
21437 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
21441 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
21442 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
21443 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
21445 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
21446 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21447 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
21448 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
21449 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
21450 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
21452 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21453 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21454 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
21457 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
21458 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
21459 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
21460 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
21461 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
21462 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
21463 Patch from mingw-san.
21466 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
21467 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
21468 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
21469 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
21470 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
21471 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
21474 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
21475 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
21476 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
21477 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
21478 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
21480 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
21481 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
21484 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
21485 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
21486 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
21487 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
21488 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
21489 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
21490 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
21491 their directory fetches over TLS).
21492 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
21493 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
21494 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
21495 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
21496 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
21497 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
21498 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
21499 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
21502 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
21503 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
21507 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
21508 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21509 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
21510 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
21511 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
21512 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
21513 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21516 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
21517 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
21518 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
21519 several minor potential security bugs.
21522 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
21523 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
21524 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
21525 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
21526 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
21527 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
21528 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
21531 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
21532 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
21534 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
21535 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
21536 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
21537 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
21540 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
21541 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
21545 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
21546 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
21547 customized patches to run/build.
21550 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
21551 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
21552 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
21555 o Major bugfixes (performance):
21556 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
21557 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
21558 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
21559 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
21560 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
21561 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
21562 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
21565 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
21566 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
21567 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
21568 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
21569 libraries in a security patch.
21570 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
21571 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
21572 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
21573 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
21577 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
21578 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
21581 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
21582 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
21583 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
21584 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
21585 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
21588 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
21589 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
21590 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
21591 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
21592 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
21594 o Directory authority changes:
21595 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
21599 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
21600 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
21601 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21604 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
21605 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
21606 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
21607 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
21608 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
21611 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
21612 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
21613 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
21614 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
21615 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
21616 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
21617 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
21620 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
21621 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
21622 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21623 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
21624 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
21625 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
21627 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
21628 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
21631 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
21632 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
21633 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
21634 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
21636 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
21637 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
21639 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
21640 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
21641 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
21642 in the Vidalia Settings window.
21645 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
21646 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
21647 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
21648 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
21649 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
21651 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
21652 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
21654 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
21655 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
21656 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
21659 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
21660 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
21661 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
21663 o New directory authorities:
21664 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21666 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
21669 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
21670 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
21672 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
21673 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
21674 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21675 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
21676 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
21677 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
21678 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21679 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21680 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
21681 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
21682 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
21683 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
21684 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
21685 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
21686 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
21687 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
21688 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
21690 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
21691 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
21692 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
21694 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21695 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21699 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21700 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21701 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21702 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21703 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21706 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
21707 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
21711 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
21712 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
21713 part of patch provided by "optimist".
21716 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
21717 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
21718 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
21719 and confuse fewer users.
21722 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
21723 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
21724 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
21725 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
21726 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
21727 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
21728 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
21731 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
21732 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
21733 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
21734 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
21735 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
21736 other features and bug fixes.
21738 o Major features (clients):
21739 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
21740 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
21741 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
21742 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
21744 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
21745 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
21746 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
21747 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
21748 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
21749 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
21750 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
21751 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
21752 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
21753 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
21755 o Major features (relays):
21756 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
21757 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
21758 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
21759 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
21760 data. Found by Jacob.
21761 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
21762 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
21763 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
21764 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
21766 o Major features (hidden services):
21767 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
21768 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
21769 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
21770 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
21771 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
21772 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
21773 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
21774 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
21775 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
21776 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
21777 lookups more reliable.
21779 o Major features (path selection):
21780 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
21781 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
21782 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
21783 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
21784 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
21786 o Major features (misc):
21787 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
21788 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
21790 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
21791 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
21792 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
21793 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
21794 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
21795 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
21797 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
21798 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
21799 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
21800 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
21802 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
21805 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
21806 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
21807 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
21808 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
21809 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
21810 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
21811 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
21812 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
21813 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
21814 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
21815 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
21816 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
21817 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
21818 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
21819 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
21820 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
21821 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
21822 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
21823 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
21824 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
21825 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21826 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
21827 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
21828 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
21829 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
21830 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
21831 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
21832 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
21833 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
21834 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
21835 Implements proposal 148.
21837 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21838 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
21839 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
21840 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
21841 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
21842 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
21844 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
21845 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
21846 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
21847 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
21848 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
21849 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21850 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
21851 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21852 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
21854 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
21855 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
21856 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
21857 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
21859 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
21860 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
21861 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
21862 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
21863 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
21864 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
21865 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
21866 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
21867 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21869 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21870 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
21871 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
21872 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
21873 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
21874 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
21875 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
21876 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
21877 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
21878 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
21879 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
21880 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
21881 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
21882 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
21883 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
21884 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
21887 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21888 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
21889 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
21890 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
21891 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
21892 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
21893 patch by Sebastian.
21894 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
21895 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
21896 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
21897 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
21898 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
21899 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
21900 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
21901 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
21902 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
21903 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
21906 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21907 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
21908 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
21909 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
21910 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
21911 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
21913 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
21914 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
21915 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
21916 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
21917 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
21918 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
21919 on a typical directory cache.
21920 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
21921 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
21922 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
21923 and may reduce fragmentation.
21925 o New/changed config options:
21926 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
21927 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
21928 Suggested by Lucky Green.
21929 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
21930 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
21931 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
21932 locked down these days.
21933 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
21934 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
21935 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
21936 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
21937 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
21938 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
21939 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
21940 output to messages of warning and error severity.
21941 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
21942 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
21943 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
21944 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
21945 directory requests we should expect to see.
21946 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
21947 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21948 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
21949 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
21950 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
21951 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
21952 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
21954 o Minor features (relays):
21955 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
21956 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
21957 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
21958 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
21959 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
21961 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
21962 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
21963 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
21964 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
21965 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
21966 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
21967 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
21968 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
21969 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
21970 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
21971 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
21972 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
21973 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
21975 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21976 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
21977 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
21978 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
21979 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
21980 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
21981 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
21982 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
21983 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
21984 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
21985 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
21987 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
21988 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
21989 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
21990 fingerprints with or without space.
21992 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
21993 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
21994 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
21995 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
21996 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
21997 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
21998 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
21999 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
22000 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
22002 o Minor features (bridges):
22003 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22004 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22006 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22007 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22010 o Minor features (hidden services):
22011 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22012 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22013 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22014 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22015 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22016 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22017 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22018 faster after restart.
22019 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
22020 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
22022 o Minor features (build and packaging):
22023 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
22025 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22026 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22028 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22029 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22030 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22031 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22032 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
22033 are built without support for deprecated functions.
22034 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22035 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22036 system to do it for us.
22037 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22038 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22039 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22040 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22041 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22042 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22043 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22044 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22045 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22046 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
22047 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
22048 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
22049 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
22050 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
22051 with log.h on Android.
22052 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
22053 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
22055 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
22056 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
22057 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
22058 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
22060 o Minor features (controllers):
22061 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
22062 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
22063 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
22064 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
22065 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
22066 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
22067 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
22068 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
22069 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
22070 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
22072 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
22073 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
22074 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
22075 been fetched and validated.
22076 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
22077 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
22079 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
22081 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
22082 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
22083 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
22084 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
22085 partway through and wants to catch up.
22086 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
22088 o Minor features (tools):
22089 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
22090 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
22091 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
22092 people find host:port too confusing.
22093 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
22094 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
22096 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22097 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
22098 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22099 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
22100 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
22101 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
22102 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
22103 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
22104 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
22106 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
22107 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
22108 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
22109 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
22110 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
22112 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
22113 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
22114 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
22116 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
22117 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22118 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
22119 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
22120 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
22121 have already been marked for close.
22122 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
22123 memory performance during directory parsing.
22125 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22126 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
22127 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
22128 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
22129 done that for a long time.
22130 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
22131 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
22132 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
22133 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
22134 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
22135 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
22136 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
22137 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
22138 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22139 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
22140 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
22141 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
22142 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
22143 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
22144 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
22145 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
22146 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
22147 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
22148 because of a pending download.
22149 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
22150 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
22151 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
22152 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
22153 bug 820, reported by seeess.
22155 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22156 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
22157 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
22158 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
22159 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
22160 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
22161 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
22162 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
22163 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
22165 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22166 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
22168 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
22169 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
22170 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22171 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
22172 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
22173 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
22174 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
22175 of 0. Suggested by lark.
22176 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
22177 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
22178 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22179 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
22180 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
22182 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
22183 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
22184 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
22186 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
22187 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
22189 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
22190 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
22191 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
22192 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
22193 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
22194 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
22195 rest, and don't automatically fail.
22196 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
22197 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
22198 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
22199 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
22200 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
22201 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22203 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22204 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
22205 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
22206 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
22207 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
22208 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
22209 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
22211 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
22212 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22214 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22215 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
22216 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
22217 Workaround for bug 1024.
22218 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
22219 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
22220 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
22221 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
22222 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
22223 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
22224 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
22225 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
22228 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
22229 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
22232 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
22233 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
22234 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
22235 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
22236 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
22237 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
22238 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
22240 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
22241 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
22242 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
22243 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
22244 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
22245 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
22246 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
22247 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
22250 o Deprecated and removed features:
22251 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
22252 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
22253 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
22255 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
22257 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
22258 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22259 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
22260 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
22261 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
22262 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
22263 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
22264 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
22265 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
22266 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
22267 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
22268 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
22269 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
22270 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
22273 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22274 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
22275 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
22276 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
22277 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
22279 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
22280 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
22281 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
22282 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
22283 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
22284 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
22285 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
22286 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
22287 actual mistakes we're making here.
22288 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
22289 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
22290 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
22291 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
22292 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
22293 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
22294 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
22295 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
22296 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
22297 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
22298 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
22299 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
22300 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
22301 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
22302 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
22305 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
22307 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
22308 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
22309 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
22310 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
22311 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22314 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
22315 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
22316 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
22317 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
22318 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
22319 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
22320 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
22321 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
22322 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
22323 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
22326 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
22327 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
22328 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
22329 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
22330 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
22331 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
22332 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
22333 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
22336 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
22337 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
22338 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
22339 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
22340 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
22342 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
22343 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
22344 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
22345 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22348 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
22349 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22350 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
22351 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
22352 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
22353 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
22354 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
22355 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
22358 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
22359 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
22360 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
22361 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
22364 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
22365 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
22366 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
22367 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
22369 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
22370 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
22371 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
22374 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
22375 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
22378 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
22379 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
22380 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
22381 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
22382 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
22383 reported by "wood".
22384 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
22385 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
22386 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
22387 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
22388 identify a connection.
22389 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
22390 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
22391 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
22392 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
22393 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
22394 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
22395 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22396 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
22397 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
22398 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
22400 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
22401 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
22402 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
22403 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
22404 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
22405 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
22406 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
22409 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22410 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22412 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22413 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
22414 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22415 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22416 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22417 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
22418 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22419 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22421 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
22422 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
22423 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
22424 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
22425 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
22426 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
22427 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22428 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22429 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22430 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22431 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22432 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22433 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22434 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22435 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22436 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22437 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22438 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22439 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
22440 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
22441 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22442 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22443 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22444 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22445 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22446 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22447 840. Patch from rovv.
22448 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22449 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22450 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22452 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22453 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22454 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22455 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
22456 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
22457 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
22458 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
22460 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22461 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
22462 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22465 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
22466 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
22468 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22469 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
22470 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22471 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22472 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22473 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22474 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22475 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22476 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22478 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
22480 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
22481 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
22485 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
22486 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22487 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22488 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22489 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22490 variety of other issues.
22493 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22494 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22495 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22496 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22497 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22498 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22499 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
22500 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22501 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22502 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22503 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22504 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22507 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22508 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22510 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22511 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
22512 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
22513 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
22514 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
22515 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
22516 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22517 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
22518 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
22519 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
22520 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
22521 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
22522 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
22523 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
22524 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
22528 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
22529 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
22530 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
22531 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
22532 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
22533 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
22534 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
22535 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
22536 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
22537 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
22538 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
22539 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
22540 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
22541 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
22542 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
22543 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
22544 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
22545 list. It has been gone for many months.
22546 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22547 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
22548 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22551 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22552 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
22553 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
22556 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
22557 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
22558 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
22559 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22562 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22563 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22564 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22565 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
22566 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
22567 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
22569 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
22570 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
22571 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
22572 pointed out by rovv.
22575 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
22576 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22577 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
22578 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22579 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
22580 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
22581 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
22582 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
22583 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
22584 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22585 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
22586 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
22587 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
22588 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22589 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
22590 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
22591 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
22592 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
22593 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
22594 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
22595 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
22598 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
22599 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
22600 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
22601 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
22602 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
22603 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
22604 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
22606 o New v3 directory design:
22607 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
22608 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
22609 network status document rather than each publishing their own
22610 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
22611 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
22612 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
22613 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
22615 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
22616 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
22617 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
22618 dannenberg (run by CCC).
22619 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
22620 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
22621 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
22622 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
22623 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
22624 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
22625 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
22626 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
22627 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
22628 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
22630 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
22631 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
22632 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
22633 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
22634 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
22635 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
22636 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
22637 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
22638 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
22639 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
22640 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
22641 certain censored countries by default again.
22642 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
22643 Tor's x509 certificates.
22645 o Implement bridge relays:
22646 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
22647 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
22648 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
22649 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
22650 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
22651 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
22652 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
22653 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
22654 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
22655 rather than "v2,v3".
22656 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
22657 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
22658 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
22659 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
22660 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
22661 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
22662 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
22663 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
22664 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
22665 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
22666 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
22668 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
22669 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
22670 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
22671 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
22672 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
22673 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
22674 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
22675 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
22676 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
22677 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
22678 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
22679 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
22680 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
22681 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
22682 bridges are functioning.
22683 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
22684 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
22685 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
22686 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
22687 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
22688 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
22689 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
22690 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
22691 knows that password. Unset by default.
22692 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
22693 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
22694 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
22695 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
22696 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
22697 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
22698 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
22699 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
22700 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
22701 and bridges@torproject.org.
22703 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
22704 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
22705 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
22706 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
22707 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
22708 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
22709 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
22710 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
22711 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
22712 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
22713 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
22714 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
22715 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
22716 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
22717 longer a completely silly thing to do.
22719 o Major features (relay usability):
22720 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
22721 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
22722 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
22723 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
22724 proposal 111 for details.
22725 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
22726 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
22727 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
22728 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
22730 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
22731 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
22732 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
22734 o Major features (directory authorities):
22735 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
22736 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
22737 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
22738 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
22739 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
22740 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
22741 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
22742 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
22743 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
22744 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
22745 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
22746 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
22747 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
22749 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
22750 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
22751 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
22752 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
22753 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
22754 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
22755 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
22756 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
22757 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
22758 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
22759 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
22760 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
22761 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
22762 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
22763 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
22764 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
22765 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
22766 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
22767 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
22768 general, controller, or bridge.
22770 o Major features (other):
22771 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
22772 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
22773 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
22774 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
22775 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
22776 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
22777 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
22778 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
22779 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
22780 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
22781 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
22782 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
22783 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
22784 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
22787 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
22788 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
22789 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
22791 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
22792 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
22793 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
22794 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
22795 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
22796 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
22797 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
22798 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
22799 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
22800 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
22801 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
22803 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
22804 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
22806 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
22807 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
22808 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
22809 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
22811 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
22812 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
22813 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
22814 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
22815 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
22817 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
22818 address maps to an internal address space.
22819 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
22820 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
22821 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
22822 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
22823 complements proposal 107.
22824 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
22825 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
22826 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
22827 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
22828 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
22829 reported by taranis and lodger.
22830 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
22831 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
22832 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
22833 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
22834 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
22835 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
22836 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
22837 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
22838 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
22839 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
22840 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
22841 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
22842 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
22844 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
22845 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
22847 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
22848 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
22849 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
22850 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
22851 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
22852 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
22853 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
22855 o Major bugfixes (other):
22856 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
22857 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
22858 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
22860 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
22861 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
22862 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
22863 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
22864 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
22865 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
22866 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
22867 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
22868 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
22869 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
22870 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
22871 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
22872 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
22873 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
22874 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
22875 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
22876 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
22877 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
22878 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
22880 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
22881 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
22882 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
22883 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
22884 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
22885 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
22886 eat all of our bandwidth.
22887 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
22888 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
22889 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
22890 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
22891 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
22892 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
22893 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
22894 bug 688, reported by mfr.
22895 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
22896 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
22897 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
22898 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
22900 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
22901 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
22902 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
22903 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
22904 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
22905 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
22906 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
22907 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
22908 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
22909 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
22910 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
22911 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
22913 o Performance improvements (memory):
22914 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
22915 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
22916 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
22917 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
22918 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
22919 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
22920 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
22921 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
22922 memory fragmentation.
22923 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
22924 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
22925 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
22926 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
22927 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
22929 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
22930 of them were actually distinct.
22931 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
22933 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
22934 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
22935 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
22936 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
22937 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
22938 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
22939 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
22940 performance-intensive.
22941 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
22942 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
22943 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
22944 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
22945 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
22948 o Performance improvements (socket management):
22949 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
22950 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
22951 our allocated connection limit.
22952 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
22953 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
22954 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
22955 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
22956 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
22958 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
22959 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
22961 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
22962 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
22963 is interested in a given message.
22964 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
22965 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
22966 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
22967 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
22968 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
22970 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
22971 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
22972 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
22974 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
22975 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
22976 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
22977 they are the same).
22978 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
22979 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
22980 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
22981 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
22984 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
22985 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
22986 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
22987 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
22988 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
22989 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
22990 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
22992 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
22993 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
22994 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
22995 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
22996 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
22997 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
22998 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
22999 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
23000 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
23001 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
23002 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
23003 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
23004 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
23007 o Changed config option behavior (features):
23008 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
23009 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
23010 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
23011 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
23012 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
23013 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
23014 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
23015 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
23016 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
23017 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
23018 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
23019 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
23020 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
23021 and are reaching it.
23022 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
23023 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
23024 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23025 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
23027 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
23028 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23029 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23030 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23031 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23032 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23033 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
23034 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23035 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
23037 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
23038 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
23039 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
23040 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
23041 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
23042 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23043 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
23044 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
23046 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
23047 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
23049 o New config options:
23050 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
23051 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
23052 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
23053 running a test network on a single host.
23054 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
23055 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
23056 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
23057 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
23058 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
23059 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
23060 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
23061 the approved-routers file.
23062 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
23063 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
23064 v2 directory information.
23066 o Minor features (other):
23067 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
23068 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
23069 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
23070 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
23071 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
23072 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
23074 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
23075 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
23076 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
23077 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
23078 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
23079 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
23080 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
23082 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
23083 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
23084 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
23086 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
23087 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
23088 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
23089 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
23090 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
23092 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
23093 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
23094 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
23095 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
23096 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
23097 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
23098 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
23100 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
23101 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
23102 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
23103 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
23104 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
23105 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
23106 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
23107 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
23108 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
23111 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23112 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
23113 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
23115 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
23116 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
23117 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
23118 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
23119 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
23120 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
23122 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
23123 bandwidthburst values.
23124 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
23125 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
23126 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
23127 to mark all our entry points down.
23128 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
23129 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
23130 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
23131 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
23132 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
23134 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
23135 more often than they are allowed to appear.
23136 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
23137 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23138 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
23139 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
23140 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
23141 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
23142 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
23144 o Controller features:
23145 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
23146 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
23147 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
23148 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
23149 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
23150 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
23152 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
23153 multiple controller passwords.
23154 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
23155 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
23156 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
23157 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
23159 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
23160 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
23161 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
23162 cookie authentication file, and config option
23163 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
23164 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
23165 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23166 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
23168 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
23169 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
23170 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
23171 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
23172 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
23173 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
23174 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
23176 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
23177 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
23179 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
23180 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
23181 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
23182 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
23183 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
23184 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
23185 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
23186 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
23187 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
23188 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
23189 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
23190 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
23191 report the value as a "minimum skew."
23193 o Controller bugfixes:
23194 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
23195 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
23196 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
23197 processes can't run us out of memory.
23198 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
23199 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
23200 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
23202 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
23203 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
23204 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
23205 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
23206 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
23207 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
23208 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
23209 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
23210 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
23211 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
23212 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
23213 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
23214 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
23215 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
23216 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
23218 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
23219 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
23221 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
23222 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
23223 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
23224 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
23225 WARN-severity events.
23227 o Portability / building / compiling:
23228 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
23229 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
23230 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
23231 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
23232 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
23233 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
23234 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
23235 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
23236 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
23237 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
23238 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
23239 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
23240 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
23242 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
23243 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
23244 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
23245 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
23246 Use this version consistently in log messages.
23247 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
23248 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
23249 partial results on small file reads.
23250 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
23251 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
23252 a directory. Fix from lodger.
23253 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
23254 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
23255 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
23257 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
23258 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
23259 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
23260 logging for the unit tests.
23261 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
23262 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
23264 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
23265 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
23267 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
23268 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
23269 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
23270 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
23273 o Logging improvements:
23274 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
23275 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
23276 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
23277 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
23278 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
23279 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
23280 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
23282 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
23283 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
23284 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
23285 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
23286 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
23287 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
23288 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
23289 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
23290 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
23291 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
23292 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
23293 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
23294 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23295 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
23296 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
23297 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
23298 Good in combination with --hash-password.
23299 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
23300 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
23302 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
23303 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
23304 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
23305 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
23307 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
23308 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
23309 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
23310 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
23311 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
23313 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
23314 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
23315 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
23316 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
23317 makes the log messages nicer.
23318 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
23319 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
23321 o Contributed scripts and tools:
23322 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
23323 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
23325 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
23326 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
23327 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
23328 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
23329 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
23330 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
23331 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
23332 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
23333 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
23334 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
23336 o Newly deprecated features:
23337 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
23338 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
23339 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
23340 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
23342 o Removed features:
23343 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
23344 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
23345 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
23346 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
23347 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
23349 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
23350 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
23351 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
23352 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
23353 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
23354 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
23355 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
23356 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
23358 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
23359 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
23360 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
23361 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
23362 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
23363 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
23365 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
23366 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
23367 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
23368 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
23369 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
23370 patch from Karsten Loesing.
23371 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
23372 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
23373 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
23374 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
23375 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
23376 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
23377 code), this assumption no longer holds.
23378 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
23382 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
23383 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
23384 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
23385 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23388 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
23389 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
23390 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
23391 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
23392 on network address.
23395 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
23396 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
23397 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
23398 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
23399 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
23400 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
23401 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
23402 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
23403 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
23404 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
23405 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
23406 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
23409 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
23410 rebuild our server descriptor.
23411 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
23412 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
23413 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
23414 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
23415 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
23416 nonstandard integer types.
23417 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
23418 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
23419 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
23420 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
23421 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
23423 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
23424 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
23425 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
23426 when they receive them.
23427 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
23428 This includes some 64-bit systems.
23429 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
23430 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
23431 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
23432 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
23433 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
23434 router_get_by_hexdigest().
23435 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
23436 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
23440 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
23441 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
23442 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
23443 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
23444 lists for a few hours each day.
23446 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23447 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
23448 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
23449 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
23450 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
23451 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23452 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
23453 rend_process_relay_cell().
23455 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23456 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
23457 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
23458 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
23459 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
23460 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
23461 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
23462 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
23464 o Major bugfixes (other):
23465 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
23466 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
23467 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
23468 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
23469 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
23470 circuit cannibalization).
23471 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
23472 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
23473 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
23474 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
23475 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
23476 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
23479 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
23480 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
23482 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
23483 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
23484 absent. Resolves bug 467.
23485 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
23486 a way to trigger this remotely.)
23487 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
23488 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
23489 were reporting the dir port.)
23490 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
23491 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
23492 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
23493 the future. Fixes bug 434.
23494 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
23496 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
23497 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
23498 the onion key from getting rotated.
23499 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
23500 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
23501 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
23502 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
23503 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
23504 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
23505 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23508 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
23509 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
23510 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
23511 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
23512 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
23515 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
23516 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
23519 o Major bugfixes (security):
23520 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
23521 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
23522 become more of a headache than it's worth.
23524 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
23525 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
23526 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
23528 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
23529 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
23530 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
23531 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
23532 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
23533 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
23535 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
23536 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
23537 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
23538 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
23539 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
23541 o Minor features (controller):
23542 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
23543 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
23544 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
23545 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
23547 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23548 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
23549 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
23550 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
23551 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
23552 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
23553 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
23554 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
23556 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23557 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
23558 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
23559 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
23560 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
23561 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
23562 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
23563 if we ran off the end of the list.
23564 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
23565 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
23566 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
23567 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
23568 every time we change any piece of our config.
23569 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
23570 encourage people using them to stop.
23571 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
23573 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
23574 servers to choose a circuit.
23575 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
23576 unparseable piece of it.
23579 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
23580 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
23581 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
23582 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
23583 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
23584 TorK, etc. Or worse.
23586 o Major security fixes:
23587 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
23588 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
23591 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
23592 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
23593 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
23594 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
23596 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
23597 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
23599 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23600 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
23601 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
23602 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
23603 routerlist while inserting a new router.
23604 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
23605 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
23607 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
23608 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
23609 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
23611 o Major bugfixes (security):
23612 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
23614 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
23615 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
23616 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
23617 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
23618 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
23619 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
23620 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
23621 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
23622 guard list unless we need to.
23624 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
23625 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
23626 don't get overused as guards.
23628 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
23629 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
23630 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
23631 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
23632 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
23634 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23635 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
23636 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
23639 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23640 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
23641 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
23642 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
23643 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
23644 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
23645 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
23646 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
23649 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
23650 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
23651 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
23652 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
23654 o Directory authority changes:
23655 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
23656 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
23657 or use hidden services.
23659 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23660 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
23661 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
23662 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
23663 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
23664 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
23665 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
23666 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
23667 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
23670 o Major bugfixes (security):
23671 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
23672 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
23673 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
23675 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
23676 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
23677 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
23678 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
23679 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
23680 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
23681 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
23682 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
23683 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
23684 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
23687 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
23688 purpose=controller.
23689 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
23690 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
23692 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
23693 having a hard time downloading.
23694 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
23695 partial results on small file reads.
23696 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
23697 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
23698 the gaps in the store get very large.
23701 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
23702 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
23704 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
23705 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
23708 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
23709 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
23710 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
23711 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
23712 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
23713 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
23715 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
23716 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
23717 free speech on the Internet.
23719 o Major features, client performance:
23720 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
23721 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
23722 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
23723 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
23724 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
23725 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
23726 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
23727 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
23728 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
23729 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
23730 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
23731 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
23732 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
23733 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
23734 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
23736 o Major features, client functionality:
23737 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
23738 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
23739 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
23740 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
23741 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
23742 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
23743 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
23744 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
23745 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
23746 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
23747 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
23748 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
23749 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
23751 o Major features, servers:
23752 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
23753 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
23754 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
23755 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
23756 authenticated, so use with care.
23757 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
23758 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
23759 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
23761 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
23762 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
23763 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
23764 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
23765 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
23766 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
23768 o Improvements on DNS support:
23769 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
23770 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
23771 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
23772 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
23773 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
23774 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
23775 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
23776 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
23777 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
23778 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
23779 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
23780 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
23781 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
23782 lets you turn it off.
23783 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
23784 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
23785 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
23786 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
23787 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
23788 useful to the network.
23789 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
23790 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
23791 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
23792 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
23793 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
23794 our tests for DNS hijacking.
23796 o Improvements on reachability testing:
23797 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
23798 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
23799 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
23800 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
23801 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
23802 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
23803 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
23804 if their identity keys are as expected.
23805 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
23806 chews through many circuits before giving up.
23807 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
23808 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
23809 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
23810 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
23811 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
23812 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
23813 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
23814 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
23815 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
23816 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
23817 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
23818 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
23820 o Improvements on rate limiting:
23821 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
23822 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
23823 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
23824 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
23825 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
23827 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
23828 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
23829 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
23830 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
23831 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
23832 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
23833 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
23834 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
23836 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
23837 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
23839 o Major features, NT services:
23840 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
23841 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
23842 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
23843 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
23844 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
23845 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
23846 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
23848 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
23849 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
23850 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
23852 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
23853 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
23854 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
23856 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
23857 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
23859 o Directory authority improvements:
23860 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
23862 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
23863 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
23864 too much load to the exit nodes.
23865 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
23866 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
23867 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
23868 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
23869 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
23870 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
23871 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
23872 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
23873 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
23874 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
23875 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
23876 broken. Not used yet.
23877 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
23878 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
23879 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
23880 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
23881 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
23882 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
23883 non-versioning dirservers.
23884 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
23885 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
23886 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
23888 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
23889 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
23890 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
23891 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
23893 o Directory mirrors and clients:
23894 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
23895 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
23896 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
23897 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
23898 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
23899 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
23900 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
23901 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
23902 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
23903 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
23904 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
23905 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
23906 routers for even longer.
23907 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
23908 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
23909 caching HTTP proxies.
23910 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
23911 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
23912 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
23913 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
23915 o Major fixes, crashes:
23916 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
23917 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
23918 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
23919 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
23921 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
23922 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
23923 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
23924 stream is detached.
23925 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
23926 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
23927 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
23928 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
23929 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
23930 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
23931 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
23932 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
23933 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
23934 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
23936 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
23937 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
23938 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
23939 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
23940 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
23941 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
23942 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
23943 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
23944 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
23945 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
23946 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
23947 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
23948 could return an unnamed server instead.
23949 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
23950 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
23951 a more attractive target for compromise.)
23952 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
23953 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
23954 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
23955 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
23957 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
23958 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
23960 o Major fixes, other:
23961 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
23962 uptime in the descriptor.
23963 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
23964 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
23965 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
23966 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
23967 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
23968 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
23969 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
23970 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
23971 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
23972 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
23973 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
23974 our DirPort now, etc.
23975 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
23976 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
23977 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
23979 o New config options or behaviors:
23980 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
23981 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
23982 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
23983 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
23984 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
23985 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
23986 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
23987 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
23988 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
23989 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
23990 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
23991 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
23993 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
23994 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
23995 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
23996 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
23997 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
23999 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
24000 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
24001 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
24002 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
24003 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
24004 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
24005 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
24006 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
24007 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
24008 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
24009 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
24010 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
24011 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
24012 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
24013 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
24014 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
24015 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
24016 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
24017 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
24018 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
24019 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
24020 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
24021 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
24022 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
24023 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
24024 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
24025 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
24026 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
24027 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
24028 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
24030 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
24031 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
24032 your ORPort is set.
24035 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
24036 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
24038 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
24039 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
24040 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
24041 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
24043 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
24044 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
24045 whether the config options are bad or good.
24046 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
24047 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
24048 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
24049 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
24050 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
24051 result more than once.
24052 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
24053 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
24054 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
24055 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
24056 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
24057 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
24058 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
24059 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
24060 before we check for libevent.
24061 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
24062 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
24063 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
24064 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
24065 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
24066 recommendation system saner.)
24067 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
24068 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
24069 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
24070 now universal binaries.
24071 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
24072 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
24074 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
24076 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
24077 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
24078 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
24079 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
24080 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
24081 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
24083 o Minor features, controller:
24084 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
24085 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
24086 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
24088 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
24089 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24090 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
24091 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
24092 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
24093 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
24094 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
24096 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
24097 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
24098 connected or resolved cell.
24099 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
24100 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
24101 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
24102 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
24103 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
24104 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
24105 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
24107 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
24108 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
24109 entry guard status as it changes.
24110 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
24111 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
24112 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
24113 watching for STREAM events.
24114 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
24115 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
24116 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
24117 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
24119 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
24120 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
24121 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
24122 working much like those for circuit events.
24123 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
24124 about the current status of a router.
24125 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
24126 a router's status has changed.
24127 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
24128 can tell which events and features are supported.
24129 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
24130 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
24131 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
24132 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
24133 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
24134 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
24135 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
24136 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
24137 for more information.
24138 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
24139 best guess to the user.
24140 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
24141 descriptor has changed.
24142 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
24143 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
24144 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
24146 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
24147 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
24148 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
24149 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
24150 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
24151 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
24152 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
24153 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
24154 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
24155 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
24156 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
24158 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
24159 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
24161 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
24162 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
24163 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
24165 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
24166 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
24167 the controller from learning about current events.
24168 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
24169 reported by Mike Perry.
24170 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
24171 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
24172 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
24173 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
24174 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
24175 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
24176 long nicknames where appropriate.
24177 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
24178 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
24180 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
24181 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
24182 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
24183 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
24184 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
24186 o Minor features, code performance:
24187 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
24188 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
24189 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
24191 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
24192 some profiles, but not others.)
24193 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
24194 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
24195 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
24196 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
24197 operations, for profiling.
24198 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
24199 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
24200 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
24201 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
24202 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
24203 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
24204 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
24205 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
24207 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
24208 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
24209 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
24210 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
24211 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
24212 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
24213 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
24214 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
24215 family lists conveniently.
24217 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
24218 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
24219 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
24220 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
24221 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
24222 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
24223 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
24224 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
24225 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
24226 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
24227 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
24228 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
24229 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
24230 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
24231 of it), is not therefore "up".
24233 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
24234 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
24235 what version a router is running.
24236 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
24237 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
24238 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
24239 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
24241 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
24242 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
24243 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
24244 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
24245 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
24248 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
24249 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
24250 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
24252 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
24253 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
24255 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
24256 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
24257 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
24258 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
24259 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
24260 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
24261 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
24262 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
24263 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
24264 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
24266 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
24267 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
24268 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
24269 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
24270 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
24271 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
24272 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
24273 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
24274 get one we don't recognize.
24277 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
24278 o Security bugfixes:
24279 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
24280 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
24281 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
24282 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
24286 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
24287 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
24288 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
24291 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
24293 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
24294 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
24295 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24296 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
24297 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
24298 its circuits on demand.
24299 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
24300 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
24301 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
24302 connections more stable on average.
24303 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
24304 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
24305 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
24307 o Security bugfixes:
24308 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
24309 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
24312 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
24314 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
24315 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
24316 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
24317 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
24318 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
24319 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
24320 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
24321 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
24324 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
24326 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
24327 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
24328 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
24329 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
24330 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
24331 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
24332 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
24333 it can't resolve its hostname.
24334 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
24335 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
24336 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
24339 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
24340 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
24341 "extendcircuit" request.
24342 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
24343 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
24344 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
24345 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
24347 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
24348 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
24349 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
24351 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
24352 methods: these are known to be buggy.
24353 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
24354 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
24355 we don't recognize.
24358 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
24360 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
24361 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
24362 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
24363 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
24364 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
24365 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
24366 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
24367 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
24368 test reachability, so you won't publish.
24371 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
24372 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
24373 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
24374 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
24375 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
24377 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
24378 own server descriptor yet.
24381 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
24383 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
24384 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
24385 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
24386 make sure to test via one of these.
24387 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
24388 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
24389 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
24390 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
24391 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
24393 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
24394 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
24395 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
24398 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
24399 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
24400 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
24401 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
24402 directory authority.
24403 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
24404 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
24405 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
24406 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
24409 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
24410 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
24411 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
24413 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
24414 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
24415 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
24416 current guards when picking a new guard.
24417 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
24418 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
24419 when we had more than one pending.
24420 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
24421 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
24422 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
24423 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
24424 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
24425 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
24426 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
24427 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
24428 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
24429 debug the reachability problems better.
24431 o Log / documentation fixes:
24432 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
24433 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
24434 about protocol violations by others.
24435 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
24436 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
24437 about what happened to our old torrc.
24440 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
24441 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
24442 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
24443 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
24444 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
24445 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
24447 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
24448 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
24449 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
24450 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
24451 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
24452 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
24453 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
24454 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
24455 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
24456 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
24457 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
24458 on malicious huge inputs.
24460 o Security fixes, major:
24461 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
24462 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
24463 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
24464 misreading their logs.
24465 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
24466 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
24467 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
24468 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
24469 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
24470 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
24471 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
24472 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
24473 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
24474 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
24475 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
24476 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
24477 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
24478 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
24480 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
24481 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
24482 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
24483 firewall options forbid.
24484 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
24485 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
24486 can only proxy to certain destinations.
24487 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
24488 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
24489 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
24491 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
24492 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
24493 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
24494 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
24495 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
24496 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
24497 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
24498 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
24499 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
24500 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
24501 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
24502 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
24503 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
24505 o Security fixes, minor:
24506 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
24507 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
24509 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
24510 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
24511 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
24512 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
24513 if we've not heard of a server.
24514 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
24515 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
24516 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
24517 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
24518 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
24519 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
24520 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
24521 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
24522 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
24523 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
24524 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
24525 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
24526 aids some statistical attacks.
24527 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
24528 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
24529 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
24530 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
24531 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
24532 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
24533 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
24534 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
24537 o Packaging improvements:
24538 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
24539 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
24540 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
24541 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
24542 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
24543 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
24545 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
24546 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
24547 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
24548 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
24549 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
24550 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
24552 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
24553 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
24554 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
24556 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
24557 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
24558 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
24559 They are useless now.
24560 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
24561 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
24562 is reachable by you.
24563 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
24566 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
24567 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
24568 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
24569 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
24570 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
24571 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
24572 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
24573 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
24574 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
24575 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
24576 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
24577 and isolating attacks better.
24578 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
24579 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
24580 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
24581 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
24582 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
24583 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
24584 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
24585 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
24586 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
24587 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
24588 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
24590 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
24591 can answer v2 directory requests too.
24592 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
24593 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
24594 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
24595 mirrors still cache and serve it).
24596 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
24597 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
24598 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
24599 for clients and for servers.
24600 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
24601 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
24602 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
24603 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
24604 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
24605 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
24606 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
24607 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
24608 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
24609 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
24610 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
24612 o Other directory improvements:
24613 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
24614 fifth authoritative directory servers.
24615 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
24616 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
24617 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
24618 to hang up on them.
24619 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
24620 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
24621 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
24622 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
24623 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
24624 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
24626 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
24627 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
24628 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
24629 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
24630 connections more reliable.
24631 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
24632 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
24633 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
24634 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
24635 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
24636 we fail to connect).
24637 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
24639 o Controller protocol improvements:
24640 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
24641 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
24642 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
24643 applications without caring how our protocol works.
24644 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
24645 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
24646 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
24647 many bytes we've used in this time period.
24648 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
24649 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
24650 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
24651 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
24652 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
24653 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
24654 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
24655 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
24656 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
24657 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
24658 or "signal reload".
24659 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
24660 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
24661 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
24662 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
24663 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
24664 a router in its role as directory authority.
24665 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
24666 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
24667 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
24668 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
24669 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
24670 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
24671 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
24672 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
24673 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
24674 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
24675 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
24676 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
24677 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
24678 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
24679 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
24680 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
24681 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
24682 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
24684 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
24685 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
24686 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
24687 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
24688 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
24689 just tell them to go read their logs.
24691 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
24692 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
24693 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
24694 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
24695 try to be a bit more fair.
24696 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
24697 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
24698 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
24699 and we're using a default DirPort.
24700 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
24701 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
24702 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
24703 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
24704 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
24705 services faster on the service end.
24706 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
24708 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
24709 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
24710 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
24711 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
24712 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
24713 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
24714 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
24715 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
24716 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
24717 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
24718 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
24719 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
24720 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
24721 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
24722 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
24723 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
24724 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
24725 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
24726 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
24727 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
24728 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
24729 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
24730 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
24731 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
24732 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
24734 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
24735 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
24736 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
24737 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
24738 so we can be backward-compatible.
24739 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
24740 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
24741 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
24742 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
24743 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
24744 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
24745 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
24746 initial descriptor forever.
24747 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
24748 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
24749 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
24750 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
24751 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
24752 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
24753 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
24754 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
24755 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
24756 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
24757 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
24758 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
24759 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
24760 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
24761 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
24762 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
24763 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
24764 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
24765 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
24766 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
24767 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
24768 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
24769 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
24770 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
24771 ports that have changed.
24772 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
24773 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
24774 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
24775 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
24776 connections once a week.
24777 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
24778 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
24779 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
24780 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
24781 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
24782 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
24783 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
24784 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
24785 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
24786 able to discover them.
24787 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
24788 want to make it an NT service.
24789 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
24790 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
24791 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
24792 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
24793 memory leaks better.
24794 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
24795 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
24796 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
24797 statistics are now uint64_t's.
24798 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
24799 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
24800 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
24801 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
24802 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
24803 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
24804 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
24805 default ulimit -n is 1024.
24806 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
24807 and its existence is confusing some users.
24809 o Config option fixes:
24810 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
24811 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
24812 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
24813 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
24814 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
24815 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
24816 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
24817 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
24818 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
24820 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
24821 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
24822 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
24823 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
24824 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
24825 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
24826 it would silently ignore the 6668.
24827 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
24828 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
24829 silently resetting it to its default.
24830 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
24831 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
24832 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
24833 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
24834 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
24835 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
24836 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
24837 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
24838 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
24839 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
24840 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
24841 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
24842 Address config option.
24843 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
24844 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
24846 o Config option features:
24847 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
24848 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
24849 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
24850 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
24851 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
24853 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
24854 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
24855 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
24856 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
24857 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
24858 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
24859 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
24860 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
24861 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
24862 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
24863 in at least some cases.)
24864 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
24865 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
24866 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
24867 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
24868 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
24869 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
24870 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
24871 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
24872 even if we know they're jerks.
24873 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
24874 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
24875 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
24876 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
24877 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
24878 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
24879 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
24880 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
24881 because older Tors do not understand it.
24882 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
24883 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
24884 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
24885 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
24886 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
24887 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
24888 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
24889 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
24890 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
24891 unattached before we fail it?
24892 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
24893 at least this many seconds ago.
24894 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
24895 at least this many seconds ago.
24896 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
24897 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
24899 o Improved and clearer log messages:
24900 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
24901 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
24902 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
24904 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
24905 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
24906 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
24907 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
24908 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
24909 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
24910 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
24911 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
24912 temporarily unreachable.
24913 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
24914 Windows-style errno back.
24915 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
24916 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
24918 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
24919 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
24920 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
24921 exactly for this case.
24922 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
24923 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
24924 don't warn twice about the same name.
24925 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
24927 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
24928 it was self-testing that told us so.
24929 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
24930 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
24931 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
24932 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
24933 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
24934 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
24935 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
24936 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
24937 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
24938 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
24939 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
24940 established a circuit.
24941 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
24942 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
24943 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
24944 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
24945 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
24946 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
24947 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
24948 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
24949 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
24950 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
24951 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
24952 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
24953 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
24954 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
24955 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
24956 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
24957 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
24958 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
24959 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
24960 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
24961 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
24962 testing for reachability.
24963 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
24964 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
24966 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
24969 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
24970 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24971 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
24972 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
24974 o Other important bugfixes:
24975 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
24976 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
24977 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
24978 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
24980 o Backported features:
24981 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
24982 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
24983 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
24984 without getting overloaded.
24985 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
24986 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
24987 503's whenever they feel busy.
24988 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
24989 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
24990 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
24991 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
24992 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
24995 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
24996 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
24997 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
24998 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
24999 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25000 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
25001 too -- so detect and avoid this.
25002 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
25004 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
25005 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25006 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25007 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
25008 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
25009 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25010 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25011 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
25012 rendezvous circuits.
25013 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
25015 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25016 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
25017 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
25018 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
25019 advertising it because of hibernation.
25020 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
25021 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
25022 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25023 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25024 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25025 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25026 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25027 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
25028 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
25029 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
25030 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
25031 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
25032 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
25033 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
25034 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
25037 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
25038 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25039 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
25040 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
25041 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
25042 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25043 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25044 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
25045 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
25046 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
25047 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
25048 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
25049 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
25050 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
25051 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
25054 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
25055 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25056 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
25058 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
25059 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
25062 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
25063 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25064 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
25065 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
25066 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
25067 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
25068 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
25070 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
25071 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
25075 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
25076 o New directory servers:
25077 - tor26 has changed IP address.
25079 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25080 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
25081 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
25082 pthreads libraries.
25083 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
25084 claims its dirport is 0.
25085 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
25086 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
25090 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
25091 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25092 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
25093 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
25094 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
25095 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
25096 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
25097 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
25100 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
25102 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
25103 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
25104 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
25105 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
25106 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
25107 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
25108 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
25109 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
25110 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
25112 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
25113 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
25115 o Assert / crash bugs:
25116 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25117 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25118 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25120 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25121 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
25122 TLS errors better in other situations too.
25123 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
25124 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
25127 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
25128 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
25129 duplicate ram over time.
25130 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
25131 reentry and threadsafeness.
25132 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
25133 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
25134 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
25136 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
25137 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
25138 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
25139 point at your Tor server.
25140 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
25142 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
25143 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
25146 o Protocol correctness:
25147 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
25148 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
25149 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
25150 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
25151 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
25152 to abandon partially built circuits.
25153 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
25154 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
25155 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
25156 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
25157 descriptors we just dropped.
25158 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
25159 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
25160 and to take errno into account where possible.
25161 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
25162 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
25163 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
25164 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
25166 o Robustness improvements:
25167 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
25168 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
25169 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
25171 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
25172 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
25173 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
25174 that will want high uptime circuits.
25175 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
25176 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
25177 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
25178 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
25179 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
25180 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
25181 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
25182 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
25183 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
25184 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
25185 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
25186 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
25187 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
25188 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
25189 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
25190 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
25191 for google.com" problem.
25192 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
25193 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
25194 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
25195 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
25196 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
25199 o Reachability testing.
25200 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
25201 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
25202 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
25203 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
25204 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
25205 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
25206 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
25207 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
25208 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
25209 already connected to them.
25210 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
25214 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
25215 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
25216 nickname+key are allowed.
25217 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
25218 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
25219 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
25220 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
25221 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
25222 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
25223 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
25224 have quite wrong clocks).
25225 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
25226 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
25227 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
25228 their descriptors are being rejected.
25230 o Efficiency improvements:
25231 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
25232 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
25233 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
25234 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
25235 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
25236 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
25237 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
25238 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
25239 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
25240 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
25242 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
25243 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
25244 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
25245 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
25246 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
25247 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
25248 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
25249 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
25250 of CPU time plus memory.
25251 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
25252 directory every time you regenerate it.
25253 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
25254 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
25255 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
25256 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
25257 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
25258 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
25259 lowercase when you first see them.
25262 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
25263 hidden services better.
25264 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
25265 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
25266 when we try to launch one.
25267 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
25268 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
25269 attempts to build a circuit.
25270 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
25271 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
25272 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
25273 normal web requests.
25276 - More Tor controller support. See
25277 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
25278 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
25279 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
25280 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
25281 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
25282 to make it easier to write controllers.
25283 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
25284 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
25285 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
25286 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
25287 new log event types.
25289 o New config options/defaults:
25290 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
25291 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
25292 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
25293 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
25294 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
25296 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
25298 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
25299 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
25300 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
25301 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
25302 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
25304 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
25305 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
25306 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
25307 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
25308 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
25309 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
25310 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
25311 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
25312 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
25313 required exit node for certain sites.
25314 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
25315 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
25316 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
25317 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
25318 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
25319 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
25320 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
25321 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
25322 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
25324 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
25325 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
25326 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
25327 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
25328 private-IP addresses.
25329 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
25330 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
25331 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
25332 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
25333 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
25334 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
25335 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
25336 is valid without actually launching Tor.
25338 o Logging improvements:
25339 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
25340 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
25341 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
25342 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
25344 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
25345 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
25346 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
25347 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
25348 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
25349 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
25350 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
25351 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
25352 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
25354 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
25356 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
25357 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
25358 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
25359 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
25360 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
25361 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
25363 o New contrib scripts:
25364 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
25365 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
25367 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
25368 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
25369 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
25370 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
25371 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
25372 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
25374 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
25375 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
25376 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
25377 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
25381 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
25382 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
25383 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
25384 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
25385 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
25386 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
25387 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
25389 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
25390 something more reasonable when first installing.
25391 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
25392 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
25393 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
25394 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
25396 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
25397 artificially capped at 500kB.
25398 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
25400 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
25401 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
25402 they could use instead.
25403 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
25404 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
25405 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
25406 the user asks you to.
25409 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
25410 rather than just rejecting it.
25411 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
25412 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
25413 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
25414 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
25415 rather than just "success" or "failure".
25416 - A more sane version numbering system. See
25417 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
25418 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
25419 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
25420 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
25421 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
25422 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
25424 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
25425 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
25426 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
25427 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
25429 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
25430 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
25432 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
25433 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
25434 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
25435 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
25437 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
25438 whether the server is hibernating.
25441 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
25442 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
25443 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25444 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25445 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25449 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
25450 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25451 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25452 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
25453 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
25456 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
25457 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25458 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
25459 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
25460 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
25461 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
25462 busy for more than 100 seconds.
25465 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
25466 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25467 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
25468 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
25469 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
25470 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
25471 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
25472 creating actual system users.
25473 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
25474 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
25478 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
25479 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
25480 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
25481 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
25482 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
25483 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
25484 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
25485 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
25486 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
25487 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
25488 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
25489 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
25490 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
25491 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
25492 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
25494 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
25495 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
25496 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
25497 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
25498 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
25499 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
25500 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
25501 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
25502 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
25503 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
25504 existing torrc files.
25505 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
25508 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
25509 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
25510 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
25511 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
25512 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
25513 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
25514 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
25515 the win32 SYSTEM account.
25516 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
25517 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
25518 file descriptors available.
25519 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
25520 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
25521 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
25524 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
25525 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25526 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
25527 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
25529 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
25530 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
25531 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
25532 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
25533 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
25535 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
25536 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
25537 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
25538 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
25539 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
25540 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
25541 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
25542 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
25543 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
25544 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
25545 800kB/s of capacity.
25546 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
25549 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
25550 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25551 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
25552 need as much processor time.
25553 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
25554 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
25555 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
25556 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
25557 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
25558 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
25559 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
25560 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
25561 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
25562 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
25563 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
25564 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
25566 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
25567 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
25568 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
25569 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
25570 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
25571 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
25572 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
25575 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
25576 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
25577 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
25579 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
25580 style address, then we'd crash.
25581 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
25582 a dirserver is broken.
25583 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
25585 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
25586 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
25587 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
25589 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
25590 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
25591 name out of the warning/assert messages.
25592 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
25593 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
25594 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
25596 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
25597 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
25598 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
25600 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
25602 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
25603 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
25604 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
25605 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
25606 values at once couldn't work.
25607 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
25608 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
25609 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
25610 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
25611 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
25612 they can handle any number of routers.
25613 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
25614 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
25615 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
25616 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
25617 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
25618 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
25619 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
25620 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
25621 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
25624 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
25625 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
25626 - Make hibernation actually work.
25627 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
25628 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
25629 don't use the stream status code.
25632 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
25633 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
25634 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
25635 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
25636 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
25637 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
25638 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
25639 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
25640 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
25641 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
25642 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
25643 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
25646 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
25647 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
25648 win32 socket errors better.
25649 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
25650 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
25651 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
25652 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
25654 - Make unit tests work on win32.
25656 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
25657 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
25658 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
25659 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
25660 right after sending the begin cell.
25661 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
25662 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
25663 exit nodes too. Oops.
25664 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
25665 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
25666 the user would get no response.
25667 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
25668 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
25669 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
25671 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
25672 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
25673 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
25674 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
25675 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
25677 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
25678 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
25679 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
25680 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
25681 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
25682 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
25683 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
25684 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
25685 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
25686 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
25687 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
25689 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
25690 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
25691 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
25692 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
25693 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
25694 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
25695 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
25696 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
25697 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
25698 so we don't see those messages days later.
25699 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
25700 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
25702 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
25703 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
25704 they ran out of file descriptors.
25705 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
25706 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
25707 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
25708 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
25710 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
25711 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
25712 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
25713 the ones we find in directories.)
25714 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
25715 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
25716 if you don't want it open.
25717 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
25718 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
25719 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
25720 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
25721 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
25722 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
25724 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
25725 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
25727 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
25729 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
25730 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
25732 o Features (circuits and streams):
25733 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
25734 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
25735 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
25736 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
25737 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
25738 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
25739 the user knows which one it's talking about.
25740 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
25741 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
25742 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
25743 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
25744 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
25745 from Geoff Goodell.
25746 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
25748 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
25749 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
25750 to fill the last cell completely.
25751 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
25752 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
25754 o Features (bandwidth):
25755 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
25756 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
25757 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
25758 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
25759 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
25760 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
25761 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
25762 your billing cycle starts on.
25763 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
25764 hibernation properties by
25765 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
25766 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
25767 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
25768 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
25769 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
25771 o Features (directories):
25772 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
25773 nickname to its identity key.
25774 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
25775 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
25776 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
25777 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
25778 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
25780 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
25781 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
25783 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
25784 will be able to get a directory.
25785 - Http proxy support
25786 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
25787 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
25788 be routed through this host.
25789 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
25790 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
25791 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
25792 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
25793 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
25794 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
25796 o Features (packages and install):
25797 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
25798 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
25799 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
25800 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
25801 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
25802 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
25803 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
25804 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
25805 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
25806 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
25809 o Features (ui controller):
25810 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
25811 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
25812 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
25813 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
25814 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
25815 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
25816 with the control port.
25817 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
25818 use in authenticating to the control interface.
25819 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
25820 configuration to torrc.
25821 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
25822 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
25823 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
25825 o Features (config and command-line):
25826 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
25827 not on the command line.
25828 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
25830 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
25831 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
25832 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
25833 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
25834 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
25835 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
25836 - New log format in config:
25837 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
25838 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
25839 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
25840 from their dirserver.
25841 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
25843 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
25844 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
25845 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
25846 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
25847 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
25848 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
25849 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
25850 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
25851 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
25852 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
25853 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
25854 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
25855 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
25856 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
25857 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
25858 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
25859 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
25860 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
25861 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
25862 than once per minute.
25864 o Features (other):
25865 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
25866 get back to normal.)
25867 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
25868 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
25869 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
25870 log more informatively.
25871 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
25872 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
25873 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
25874 from each other, to hinder linkability.
25875 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
25876 them act more like real nodes.
25877 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
25878 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
25879 1024) file descriptors.
25880 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
25883 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
25885 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
25886 clients/servers with an open dirport.
25887 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
25888 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
25889 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
25890 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
25891 intermittent connections.
25892 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
25893 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
25895 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
25896 in reporting stats locally.
25897 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
25898 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
25899 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
25902 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
25904 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
25905 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
25906 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
25907 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
25908 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
25909 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
25910 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
25911 list to decide who's running.
25912 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
25913 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
25914 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
25915 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
25916 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
25917 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
25918 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
25919 for pointing out this bug.)
25920 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
25922 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
25923 don't put it into the client dns cache.
25924 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
25925 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
25926 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
25928 o Protocol changes:
25929 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
25930 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
25931 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
25932 hadn't heard of before.
25935 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
25936 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
25937 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
25938 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
25939 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
25940 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
25941 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
25942 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
25943 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
25944 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
25945 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
25946 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
25947 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
25948 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
25949 - Directory caching.
25950 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
25951 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
25952 directory they've pulled down.
25953 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
25954 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
25955 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
25956 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
25957 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
25958 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
25959 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
25961 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
25962 This isn't used yet.
25963 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
25964 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
25965 clients don't use this yet.)
25966 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
25967 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
25968 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
25969 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
25970 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
25971 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
25972 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
25973 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
25974 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
25975 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
25976 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
25977 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
25978 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
25979 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
25980 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
25981 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
25982 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
25983 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
25984 - File and name management:
25985 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
25986 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
25988 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
25989 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
25990 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
25991 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
25992 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
25993 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
25994 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
25996 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
25997 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
25998 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
26000 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
26001 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
26002 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
26003 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
26004 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
26005 - New docs in the tarball:
26007 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
26008 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
26009 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
26010 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
26011 know you might want to get it verified.
26012 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
26013 kazaa, gnutella ports.
26014 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
26015 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
26016 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
26017 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
26018 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
26019 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
26020 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
26022 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
26024 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
26025 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
26027 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
26028 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
26029 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
26032 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
26033 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
26034 ask them to resolve the host "".
26037 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
26038 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
26039 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
26042 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
26043 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
26044 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
26047 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
26048 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
26049 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
26050 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
26052 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
26053 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
26054 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
26056 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
26057 hidden service per 15-minute period.
26058 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
26059 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
26060 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
26061 o Fixes for security bugs:
26062 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
26063 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
26064 a trusted dirserver.
26066 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
26067 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
26068 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
26069 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
26070 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
26071 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
26072 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
26073 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
26074 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
26075 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
26077 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
26078 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
26079 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
26080 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
26081 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
26082 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
26084 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
26087 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
26088 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
26089 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
26090 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
26091 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
26092 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
26093 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
26094 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
26095 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
26096 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
26097 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
26098 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
26099 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
26100 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
26103 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
26104 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
26105 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
26106 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26109 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
26110 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
26111 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
26112 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
26113 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
26114 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26115 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
26119 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
26121 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
26122 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
26123 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
26124 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
26125 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
26126 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
26127 if you decrypted them correctly.
26128 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
26129 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
26130 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
26131 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
26132 in-memory directories too.
26133 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
26134 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
26135 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
26136 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
26137 just close the circ.
26138 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
26139 - Better debugging for tls errors
26140 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
26141 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
26143 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
26144 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
26145 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
26146 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
26147 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
26148 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
26149 it tells you about the first error.
26150 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
26151 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
26152 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
26153 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
26154 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
26155 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
26156 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
26157 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
26158 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
26159 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
26161 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
26162 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
26165 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
26166 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
26168 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
26169 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
26170 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
26171 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
26172 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
26173 expect it to have a nickname.
26174 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
26175 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
26176 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
26177 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
26178 the dns farm to do it.
26179 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
26180 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
26182 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
26183 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
26184 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
26185 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
26186 but that aren't warnings
26189 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
26190 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
26194 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
26195 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
26196 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
26197 - include missing header fcntl.h
26198 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
26199 - deal with hardware word alignment
26200 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
26201 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
26202 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
26203 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
26204 by kill -USR1 currently.
26205 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
26206 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
26207 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
26210 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
26211 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
26212 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
26215 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
26217 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
26218 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
26219 - And fix a few endian issues.
26222 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
26224 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
26225 try that circuit again: try a new one.
26226 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
26227 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
26228 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
26229 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
26230 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
26231 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
26233 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
26234 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
26235 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
26237 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
26239 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
26240 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
26241 side isn't reading right then.
26242 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
26243 RecommendedVersions
26244 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
26245 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
26246 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
26249 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
26251 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
26252 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
26255 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
26259 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
26261 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
26262 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
26263 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
26264 connection is finished.
26265 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
26266 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
26267 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
26268 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
26269 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
26270 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
26271 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
26272 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
26273 rather than warn and continue.
26274 - Make --version work
26275 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
26278 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
26280 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
26281 knows it's working.
26282 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
26283 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
26285 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
26286 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
26287 so you can collect coredumps there.
26289 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
26290 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
26291 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
26292 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
26293 dns cache actually gets populated.
26294 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
26295 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
26296 end cell down it first.
26297 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
26298 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
26301 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
26303 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
26304 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
26306 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
26307 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
26308 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
26309 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
26310 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
26311 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
26313 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
26315 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
26316 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
26317 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
26318 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
26319 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
26320 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
26322 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
26323 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
26326 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
26328 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
26329 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
26330 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
26331 tor. It even has a man page.
26332 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
26333 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
26334 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
26335 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
26337 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
26339 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
26342 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
26344 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
26345 it, apt-getters. :)
26346 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
26347 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
26348 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
26349 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
26350 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
26351 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
26352 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
26353 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
26354 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
26355 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
26356 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
26358 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
26359 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
26362 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
26364 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
26365 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
26368 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
26370 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
26371 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
26372 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
26373 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
26374 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
26375 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
26376 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
26377 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
26378 logfile so you know it's working.
26379 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
26380 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
26383 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
26385 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
26386 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
26387 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
26390 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
26392 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
26393 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
26394 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
26397 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
26398 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
26399 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
26401 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
26402 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
26404 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
26405 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
26406 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
26408 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
26409 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
26413 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
26415 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
26416 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
26417 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
26420 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
26421 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
26422 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
26423 - Add port ranges to exit policies
26424 - Add a conservative default exit policy
26425 - Warn if you're running tor as root
26426 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
26427 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
26428 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
26429 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
26431 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
26434 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
26435 o Robustness and bugfixes:
26436 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
26437 really screw things up.
26438 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
26440 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
26441 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
26443 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
26444 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
26445 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
26446 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
26447 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
26448 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
26451 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
26454 - Change default loglevel to warn.
26455 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
26456 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
26458 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
26461 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
26462 o Robustness and bugfixes:
26463 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
26464 - to get ownership/permissions right
26465 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
26466 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
26467 pull down a directory again
26468 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
26469 causing server crashes
26470 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
26471 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
26472 - exit if bind() fails
26473 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
26474 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
26475 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
26476 - fix minor bias in PRNG
26477 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
26480 - Wrote the design document (woo)
26482 o Circuit building and exit policies:
26483 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
26485 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
26486 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
26487 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
26488 exists, rather than failing
26489 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
26490 which AP connections are standing by
26491 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
26492 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
26493 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
26495 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
26496 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
26499 - APPort is now called SocksPort
26500 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
26502 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
26503 hardcoded (for dirservers)
26504 - Reloads config on HUP
26505 - Usage info on -h or --help
26506 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
26508 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
26509 o General stability:
26510 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
26511 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
26512 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
26513 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
26514 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
26515 to take down the network when I approve a new router
26516 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
26519 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
26520 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
26522 o Autoconf improvements:
26523 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
26524 - Make install now works
26525 - create var/lib/tor on make install
26526 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
26527 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
26529 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
26530 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
26531 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
26532 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup