2 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
3 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
4 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
7 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
8 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
9 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
10 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
11 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
12 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
13 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
15 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
16 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
17 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
18 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
19 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
22 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
23 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
24 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
27 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
28 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
29 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
30 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
31 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
32 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
33 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
34 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
35 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
36 describes microdescriptors.
38 o Major features (build hardening):
39 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
41 o Major features (relay scaling):
42 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
43 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
44 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
45 much faster than other AES implementations.
46 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
47 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
48 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
50 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
51 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
53 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
54 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
55 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
56 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
58 o Major features (blocking resistance):
59 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
61 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
62 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
63 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
64 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
65 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
66 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
67 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
68 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
69 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
70 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
71 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
72 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
73 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
74 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
75 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
76 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
77 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
78 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
79 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
81 o Major features (pluggable transports):
82 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
83 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
84 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
85 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
87 o Major features (DoS resistance):
88 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
89 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
90 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
91 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
92 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
93 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
94 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
95 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
96 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
97 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
98 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
100 o Major features (hidden services):
101 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
102 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
103 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
105 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
106 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
107 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
108 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
109 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
110 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
112 o Major features (IPv6):
113 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
114 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
115 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
116 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
117 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
119 o Major features (directory authorities):
120 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
121 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
122 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
123 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
124 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
125 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
126 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
127 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
128 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
129 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
131 o Major features (performance):
132 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
133 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
134 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
135 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
136 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
137 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
138 side of Proposal 174.
139 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
140 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
141 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
142 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
143 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
144 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
145 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
146 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
147 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
148 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
149 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
150 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
152 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
153 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
154 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
155 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
156 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
159 o Major features (relays):
160 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
161 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
162 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
163 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
164 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
165 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
166 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
168 o Major features (stream isolation):
169 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
170 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
171 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
172 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
173 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
174 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
175 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
176 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
177 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
178 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
179 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
180 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
181 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
182 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
184 o Major features (bufferevents):
185 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
186 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
187 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
188 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
189 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
190 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
191 zero-copy transports where available.
192 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
193 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
194 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
195 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
196 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
197 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
199 o Major features (path selection):
200 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
201 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
202 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
203 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
206 o Major features (port forwarding):
207 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
208 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
209 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
210 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
211 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
212 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
214 o Major features (logging):
215 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
216 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
217 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
218 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
219 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
220 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
221 Implements enhancement 1668.
223 o Major features (other):
224 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
225 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
226 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
227 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
228 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
229 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
230 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
231 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
232 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
233 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
234 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
235 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
236 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
237 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
238 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
239 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
240 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
241 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
242 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
243 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
245 o New directory authorities:
246 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
247 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
249 o Security/privacy fixes:
250 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
251 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
252 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
253 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
254 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
255 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
256 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
257 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
258 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
259 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
260 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
261 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
262 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
263 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
264 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
265 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
266 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
267 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
268 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
269 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
270 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
271 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
272 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
273 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
274 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
275 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
276 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
277 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
278 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
279 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
280 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
282 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
283 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
284 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
285 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
286 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
287 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
288 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
289 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
290 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
291 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
292 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
293 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
294 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
295 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
298 o Major bugfixes (clients):
299 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
300 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
301 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
302 which introduced predicted ports.
303 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
304 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
305 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
306 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
307 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
308 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
309 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
310 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
311 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
313 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
314 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
315 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
316 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
317 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
318 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
320 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
321 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
322 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
323 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
324 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
325 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
326 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
327 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
328 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
331 o Major bugfixes (relays):
332 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
333 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
334 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
335 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
336 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
337 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
338 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
339 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
340 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
341 immensely in tracking this bug down.
342 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
343 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
344 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
345 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
346 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
347 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
348 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
350 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
351 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
352 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
353 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
354 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
355 cells were introduced.
356 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
357 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
358 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
359 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
361 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
362 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
363 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
364 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
365 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
366 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
367 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
368 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
369 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
370 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
371 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
372 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
373 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
374 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
375 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
376 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
377 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
378 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
379 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
380 Fixes part of bug 3825.
382 o Changes to default torrc file:
383 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
384 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
386 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
387 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
388 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
390 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
391 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
392 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
394 o Minor features (directory authorities):
395 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
396 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
397 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
398 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
399 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
400 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
401 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
402 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
403 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
404 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
405 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
406 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
407 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
408 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
409 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
412 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
413 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
414 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
415 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
416 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
417 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
418 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
419 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
420 sure. Closes bug 5139.
421 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
422 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
423 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
424 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
425 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
427 o Minor features (IPv6):
428 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
429 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
430 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
431 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
432 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
433 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
435 o Minor features (hidden services):
436 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
437 Required by fix for bug 3460.
438 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
439 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
440 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
441 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
442 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
443 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
444 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
445 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
446 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
448 o Minor features (relays):
449 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
450 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
451 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
452 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
453 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
454 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
455 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
456 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
457 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
458 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
459 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
462 o Minor features (new config options):
463 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
464 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
465 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
466 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
467 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
468 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
469 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
470 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
471 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
472 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
473 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
474 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
476 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
477 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
478 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
479 Implements issue 933.
480 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
481 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
482 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
483 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
484 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
485 implements ticket 3439.
486 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
487 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
488 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
489 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
490 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
491 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
492 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
493 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
495 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
496 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
497 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
498 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
499 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
500 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
501 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
502 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
503 appending to the list.
504 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
505 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
506 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
507 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
510 o Minor features (controller, new events):
511 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
512 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
513 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
514 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
515 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
516 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
518 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
519 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
520 circuit-status' control-port command.
521 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
522 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
523 user. Implements ticket 1692.
524 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
525 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
526 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
528 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
529 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
530 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
531 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
532 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
533 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
534 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
535 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
536 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
538 o Minor features (controller, other):
539 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
540 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
542 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
543 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
544 file. Resolves bug 1101.
545 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
546 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
548 o Minor features (log messages):
549 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
550 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
551 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
552 please let us know about it.
553 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
554 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
555 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
556 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
557 Resolves ticket 2474.
558 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
559 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
561 o Minor features (other):
562 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
563 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
564 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
565 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
567 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
568 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
569 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
570 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
571 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
572 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
573 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
575 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
576 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
577 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
578 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
579 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
581 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
582 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
583 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
584 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
585 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
586 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
587 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
588 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
589 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
590 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
591 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
592 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
593 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
594 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
595 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
596 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
599 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
600 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
601 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
602 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
603 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
604 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
605 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
606 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
607 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
609 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
610 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
611 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
612 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
613 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
614 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
615 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
616 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
617 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
618 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
620 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
621 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
622 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
623 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
624 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
625 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
626 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
627 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
628 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
630 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
631 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
632 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
633 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
634 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
635 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
636 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
637 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
638 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
640 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
641 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
642 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
643 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
644 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
645 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
646 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
648 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
649 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
650 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
651 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
653 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
654 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
655 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
656 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
657 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
658 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
659 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
660 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
661 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
662 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
663 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
664 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
667 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
668 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
669 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
670 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
671 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
672 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
674 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
675 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
676 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
677 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
678 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
679 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
680 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
681 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
682 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
683 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
684 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
685 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
686 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
687 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
688 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
690 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
691 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
692 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
693 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
694 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
695 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
697 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
698 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
699 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
700 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
701 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
702 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
703 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
704 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
705 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
706 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
707 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
708 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
709 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
710 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
711 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
713 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
714 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
715 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
716 be disabled using the new
717 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
718 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
719 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
720 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
721 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
722 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
723 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
725 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
726 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
727 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
728 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
729 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
730 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
731 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
733 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
734 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
735 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
736 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
737 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
738 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
739 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
740 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
742 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
743 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
744 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
745 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
746 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
747 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
748 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
749 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
751 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
752 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
753 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
754 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
755 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
756 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
757 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
758 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
760 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
761 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
762 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
763 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
765 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
766 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
767 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
769 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
770 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
772 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
773 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
774 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
775 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
776 case for flushing marked connections.
777 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
778 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
779 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
780 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
781 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
782 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
783 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
784 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
785 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
786 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
788 o Minor bugfixes (other):
789 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
790 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
791 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
792 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
793 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
794 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
795 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
796 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
797 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
798 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
800 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
801 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
802 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
803 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
804 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
806 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
807 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
808 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
809 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
810 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
811 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
812 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
813 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
814 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
815 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
816 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
817 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
818 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
819 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
820 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
821 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
823 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
824 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
825 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
826 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
827 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
828 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
829 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
830 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
831 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
832 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
833 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
834 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
835 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
836 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
837 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
838 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
839 Implements ticket 3264.
840 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
842 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
843 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
844 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
845 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
846 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
847 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
849 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
850 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
851 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
852 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
853 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
854 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
855 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
856 them from the other auths.
857 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
858 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
859 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
860 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
861 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
862 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
863 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
864 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
868 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
869 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
870 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
872 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
873 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
874 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
875 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
876 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
877 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
878 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
879 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
881 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
882 ./src/test/bench binary.
883 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
884 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
885 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
886 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
889 o Build improvements:
890 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
891 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
892 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
893 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
894 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
895 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
896 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
897 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
898 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
899 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
900 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
901 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
902 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
903 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
904 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
905 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
906 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
907 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
908 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
909 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
910 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
912 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
914 o Build requirements:
915 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
916 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
917 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
918 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
919 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
920 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
921 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
922 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
923 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
924 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
925 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
926 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
927 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
929 o Build fixes (compile/link):
930 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
931 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
933 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
934 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
935 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
936 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
937 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
938 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
939 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
940 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
941 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
943 o Build fixes (other):
944 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
945 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
947 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
948 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
949 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
950 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
951 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
952 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
953 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
954 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
956 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
957 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
960 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
961 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
962 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
963 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
964 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
965 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
966 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
967 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
969 o Code refactoring (safety):
970 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
971 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
972 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
973 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
974 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
975 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
976 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
977 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
978 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
979 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
980 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
981 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
983 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
984 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
985 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
986 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
987 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
988 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
989 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
990 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
991 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
992 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
993 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
994 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
995 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
996 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
997 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
998 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
999 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
1000 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
1002 o Code refactoring (separate):
1003 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
1004 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
1005 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
1007 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
1008 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
1011 o Code refactoring (name changes):
1012 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
1013 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
1014 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
1015 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
1016 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
1017 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
1018 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
1020 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
1021 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
1022 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
1023 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
1024 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
1025 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
1026 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
1027 invalid value, rather than just -1.
1028 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
1029 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
1030 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
1032 o Code refactoring (other):
1033 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
1034 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
1036 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
1037 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
1038 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
1039 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
1040 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
1041 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
1042 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
1043 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
1044 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
1045 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
1046 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
1047 our library structure used to force them to link it.
1049 o Removed features and files:
1050 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
1051 it would be a bad idea to start.
1052 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
1054 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
1055 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
1056 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
1057 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
1058 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
1059 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
1060 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
1061 are no longer in use as relays.
1062 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
1063 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
1064 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
1065 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
1066 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
1067 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
1071 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
1072 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
1073 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
1075 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
1076 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
1078 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
1079 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
1080 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
1082 o Documentation fixes:
1083 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
1084 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
1085 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
1086 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
1087 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
1088 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
1089 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
1090 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
1093 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
1094 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
1098 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
1099 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
1100 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1101 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
1102 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
1103 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
1104 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
1108 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
1109 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
1110 attack that could in theory leak path information.
1113 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
1114 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
1115 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1116 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
1117 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
1118 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
1119 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
1120 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
1121 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
1122 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
1123 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
1124 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
1125 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
1126 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
1129 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
1130 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
1131 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
1135 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
1136 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
1137 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
1138 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
1139 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
1140 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
1141 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1142 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
1143 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
1144 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
1145 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1148 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
1149 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
1152 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
1153 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
1156 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
1157 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
1158 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
1159 and fixes several crash bugs.
1161 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
1162 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
1163 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
1164 those packages and upgrade anyway.
1166 o Directory authority changes:
1167 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
1168 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
1172 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
1173 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
1174 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
1175 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
1176 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
1177 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
1178 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
1179 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
1180 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
1181 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
1182 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
1183 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
1184 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
1185 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
1186 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
1187 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
1188 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
1189 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
1190 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
1191 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
1192 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
1193 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
1194 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
1195 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
1196 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
1197 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
1198 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
1201 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
1202 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1203 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
1204 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
1206 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
1207 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
1209 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
1210 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
1211 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
1212 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
1213 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
1214 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
1215 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
1216 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
1219 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
1220 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
1221 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
1222 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
1223 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
1224 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
1225 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
1226 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
1227 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
1228 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
1229 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
1230 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
1231 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
1232 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
1233 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
1234 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
1235 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
1236 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
1237 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
1238 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
1239 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
1240 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
1241 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
1242 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
1243 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
1244 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
1245 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
1246 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
1247 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
1248 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
1249 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
1250 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
1251 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1252 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
1253 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1254 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
1255 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
1256 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
1257 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
1258 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1259 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
1260 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1261 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
1262 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
1263 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
1264 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1266 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
1267 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
1268 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
1269 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
1270 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
1271 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
1272 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
1273 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
1274 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
1275 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
1276 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1277 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
1278 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1279 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
1280 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
1283 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
1284 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
1285 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
1286 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
1288 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1291 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
1292 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
1293 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
1294 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
1295 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
1296 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
1297 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
1300 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
1301 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
1302 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1304 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1305 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1306 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1307 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1308 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1309 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1310 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1311 (which Tor does not do by default).
1313 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1314 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1315 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1316 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1317 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1319 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
1320 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
1321 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
1324 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
1325 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
1326 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
1327 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
1328 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
1330 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
1331 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
1334 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1335 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1336 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1337 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1338 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1339 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1340 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1341 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1343 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
1344 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
1345 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
1346 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
1347 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
1348 close based on processing a cell on it.
1349 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1350 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1351 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1352 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1353 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1354 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1355 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1356 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
1357 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
1358 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
1359 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1360 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1361 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1362 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1363 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
1366 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1367 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1368 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1369 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1370 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1371 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1372 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1374 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1375 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1376 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1377 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1378 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1379 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1380 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1381 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1382 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1383 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
1384 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
1385 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1386 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1387 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1388 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
1389 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
1390 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
1391 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
1392 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1393 Reported by "troll_un".
1394 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1395 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1396 Reported by "troll_un".
1397 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1398 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1399 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1400 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1403 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1404 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1405 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1406 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1407 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1408 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1409 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1410 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1411 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1412 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1413 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1415 o Packaging changes:
1416 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
1417 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
1420 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
1421 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
1422 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
1423 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
1424 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
1426 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
1427 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
1429 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1430 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1431 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1432 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1433 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1434 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1435 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1436 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1437 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1440 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1443 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
1444 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
1445 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
1447 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
1448 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
1449 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
1450 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
1451 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
1452 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
1453 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
1454 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
1455 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
1456 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
1457 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
1458 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
1459 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
1461 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
1462 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
1463 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
1464 currently connected to them.
1466 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
1467 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
1468 remain; see for example proposal 188.
1470 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
1471 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1472 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1473 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1474 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1475 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1476 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1477 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1478 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1479 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1480 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1481 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
1482 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
1483 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
1484 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
1485 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
1486 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
1487 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
1490 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
1491 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
1492 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
1493 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
1494 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
1495 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
1496 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
1497 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
1498 when bridges were introduced.
1499 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1500 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1501 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1502 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1503 Found by "frosty_un".
1506 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
1507 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
1509 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
1510 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
1511 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
1512 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
1513 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
1514 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
1515 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
1518 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
1519 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
1520 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
1521 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
1522 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
1523 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
1524 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
1525 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
1526 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
1527 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
1528 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
1529 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
1530 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
1531 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
1532 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
1533 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
1534 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
1535 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
1537 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
1538 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
1539 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
1540 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1541 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
1542 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
1543 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
1544 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
1545 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
1546 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
1547 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
1548 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1551 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
1552 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
1553 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
1554 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1557 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
1558 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
1559 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
1560 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
1561 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
1563 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1564 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
1565 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
1566 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
1567 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
1568 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
1569 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
1570 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
1571 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
1572 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1574 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1575 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1576 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1577 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1578 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1579 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1580 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1581 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1582 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1583 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1584 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1585 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1586 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1587 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1588 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1589 Found by "frosty_un".
1590 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
1591 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
1592 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
1593 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
1594 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
1595 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
1596 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
1597 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
1598 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1599 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
1600 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
1601 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
1602 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1603 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
1604 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
1605 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
1606 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
1607 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
1608 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
1610 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1611 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
1612 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
1613 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
1614 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
1615 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
1616 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
1617 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
1619 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
1620 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
1621 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
1622 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
1623 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
1624 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
1625 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
1626 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
1627 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
1628 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
1629 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
1630 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
1632 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
1633 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1634 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
1635 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1636 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
1637 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1638 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
1639 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
1640 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
1642 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
1644 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
1645 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
1646 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
1647 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1648 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
1649 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
1650 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
1651 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1653 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
1654 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
1655 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
1656 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
1657 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
1659 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1660 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
1661 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
1662 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
1663 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1666 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
1667 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
1668 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
1669 reachable from Iran again.
1672 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
1673 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
1674 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1676 o Minor features (security):
1677 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
1678 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
1679 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
1680 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
1681 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
1682 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
1683 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
1684 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
1685 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
1686 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
1689 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
1690 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
1691 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
1692 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
1693 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
1694 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
1695 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
1696 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
1697 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1699 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
1700 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
1701 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
1702 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
1703 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
1705 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
1706 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
1707 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
1708 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
1709 fixes part of bug 2442.
1710 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
1711 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
1712 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
1714 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
1715 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
1716 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
1717 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
1718 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1721 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
1722 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1723 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
1724 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
1725 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
1726 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
1729 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
1730 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
1731 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
1732 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
1733 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
1734 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
1735 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
1736 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
1737 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
1738 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
1740 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
1741 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
1742 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
1743 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
1744 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
1745 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
1746 many many other features and bugfixes.
1748 o Major features (client performance):
1749 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
1750 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
1751 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
1752 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
1753 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
1754 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
1756 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
1757 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
1758 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
1759 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
1760 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
1761 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
1762 the first implementation of this feature.
1764 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
1765 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
1766 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
1767 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
1768 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
1769 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
1770 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
1771 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
1772 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
1773 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
1774 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
1775 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
1776 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
1777 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
1778 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
1779 file. Implements ticket 1296.
1781 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
1782 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
1783 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
1784 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
1785 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
1786 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
1787 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
1788 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
1789 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
1790 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
1791 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
1792 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
1793 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
1794 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
1795 they first get the Guard flag.
1796 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
1797 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
1798 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
1799 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
1800 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
1801 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
1802 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
1803 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
1805 o Major features (relays control their load better):
1806 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
1807 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
1808 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
1809 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
1810 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
1811 based on a variant of proposal 163.
1812 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
1813 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
1814 but never per-conn write limits.
1815 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
1816 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
1817 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
1818 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
1820 o Major features (controllers):
1821 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
1822 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
1823 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
1824 contributions to the network.
1825 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
1826 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
1827 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
1829 o Major features (directory authorities):
1830 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
1831 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
1832 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
1834 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
1835 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
1836 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
1837 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
1838 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
1839 download consensus + microdescriptors".
1840 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
1841 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
1842 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
1843 hash algorithm in the future.
1844 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
1845 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
1846 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
1848 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
1849 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
1850 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
1851 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
1852 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
1853 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
1854 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
1855 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
1856 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
1857 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
1858 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
1859 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
1860 connections to directory servers.
1861 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
1862 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
1863 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
1864 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
1865 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
1866 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
1867 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
1868 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
1869 information, or fetch directory information.
1870 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
1871 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
1872 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
1873 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
1874 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
1876 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
1877 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
1878 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
1879 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
1880 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
1881 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
1882 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
1883 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
1884 the network changes.
1885 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
1886 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
1888 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
1889 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
1890 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
1891 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
1892 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
1893 unless you really want your Tor to break.
1894 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
1895 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
1896 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
1897 - When StrictNodes is 1:
1898 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
1899 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
1900 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
1901 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
1902 reachability self-tests.
1903 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
1904 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
1905 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
1906 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
1907 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
1909 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
1910 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1911 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
1913 o Major features (misc):
1914 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
1915 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
1916 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
1917 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
1918 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
1919 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
1920 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
1921 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
1922 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
1923 part of ticket 3076.
1924 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
1925 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
1926 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
1928 o Code security improvements:
1929 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
1930 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
1931 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
1932 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
1933 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
1934 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
1935 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
1936 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
1937 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
1938 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
1939 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
1940 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
1941 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
1942 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
1943 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
1944 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
1945 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
1946 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
1947 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
1948 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
1949 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
1950 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
1951 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
1952 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
1953 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
1954 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
1955 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
1956 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
1958 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1959 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
1960 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
1961 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
1962 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
1963 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
1964 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
1965 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
1966 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
1967 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
1968 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
1969 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
1970 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
1972 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
1973 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
1974 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
1976 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
1977 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
1979 o Major bugfixes (stability):
1980 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
1981 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
1982 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1983 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
1984 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1985 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
1986 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
1987 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
1988 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
1989 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
1990 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
1991 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
1992 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
1993 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
1994 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
1995 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
1997 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
1998 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
1999 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
2001 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
2002 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
2003 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
2004 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
2005 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
2006 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
2007 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
2008 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
2009 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
2010 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
2011 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
2012 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
2013 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
2014 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
2015 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
2016 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
2017 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
2018 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
2019 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2021 o Privacy fixes (clients):
2022 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
2023 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
2024 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
2025 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
2026 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
2027 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2028 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
2029 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
2030 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
2032 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
2033 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
2034 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
2035 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
2036 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
2037 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
2038 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
2039 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
2040 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
2041 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
2043 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
2044 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
2045 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
2046 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2047 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
2048 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
2049 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2050 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2051 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2052 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2053 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2054 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2055 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2057 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
2058 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
2059 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
2060 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
2061 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
2062 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
2063 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
2064 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
2065 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
2066 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2068 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
2069 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
2070 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
2071 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
2072 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
2073 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
2074 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
2076 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
2077 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
2078 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
2079 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
2080 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
2081 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
2082 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
2083 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
2084 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
2085 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
2086 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
2087 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
2088 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
2089 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
2090 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
2092 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2093 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
2094 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
2095 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
2096 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
2097 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
2098 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
2100 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
2101 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
2102 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
2103 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
2104 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
2105 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
2106 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
2107 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
2109 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
2110 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
2111 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
2112 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
2113 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
2114 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
2115 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
2116 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
2117 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
2118 the longest-lived bug prize.
2119 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
2120 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
2121 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
2122 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
2123 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
2124 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
2125 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
2126 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
2127 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
2128 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
2130 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
2131 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
2132 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
2133 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
2134 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
2135 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
2138 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2139 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
2140 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
2141 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
2142 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
2143 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
2144 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
2145 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
2146 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
2147 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
2148 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
2149 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2150 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
2151 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
2152 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
2153 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
2154 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
2155 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
2156 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
2157 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
2158 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
2159 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
2160 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
2161 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
2162 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
2163 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
2165 o Major bugfixes (misc):
2166 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
2167 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
2168 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2169 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
2170 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
2171 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2172 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2173 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2175 o Minor features (relays):
2176 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
2177 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
2178 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
2179 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
2180 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
2181 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
2182 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
2183 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
2185 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
2186 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
2187 Resolves ticket 3252.
2188 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
2189 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
2191 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
2192 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
2193 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
2194 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
2195 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
2197 o Minor features (network statistics):
2198 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
2199 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
2200 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
2201 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
2202 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
2203 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
2204 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
2205 measure download times.
2206 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
2207 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
2209 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
2210 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
2211 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
2212 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
2214 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
2215 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
2216 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
2218 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
2219 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
2220 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
2221 Implements ticket 2432.
2222 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
2223 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
2224 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
2225 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
2226 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
2227 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
2228 Implements enhancement 1790.
2229 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
2230 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
2232 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
2233 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
2234 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
2235 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
2236 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
2237 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
2238 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
2240 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2242 o Minor features (clients):
2243 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
2244 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
2245 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
2246 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
2248 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
2249 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
2250 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
2251 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
2252 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
2253 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
2254 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
2255 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
2257 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
2258 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
2259 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
2260 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
2261 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
2262 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
2263 SSL handshake issues.
2265 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2266 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
2267 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
2268 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
2269 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
2270 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
2271 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
2272 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
2273 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
2274 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
2275 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
2276 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
2277 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
2278 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
2279 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
2280 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
2281 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
2282 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
2283 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
2284 hour of their uptime.
2285 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
2286 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
2287 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
2288 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
2290 o Minor features (hidden services):
2291 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
2292 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
2293 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
2294 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
2295 Required by fix for bug 3000.
2296 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
2297 by fix for bug 3000.
2298 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
2299 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
2300 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
2301 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
2302 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
2304 o Minor features (controller interface):
2305 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
2306 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
2307 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
2308 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
2309 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
2310 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
2311 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
2312 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
2313 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
2314 over our stored history.
2315 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
2316 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
2317 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
2319 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
2320 to the circuit build timeout.
2321 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
2322 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
2323 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
2325 o Minor features (controller protocol):
2326 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
2327 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
2328 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
2330 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
2331 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
2332 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
2333 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
2334 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
2335 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
2336 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
2337 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
2338 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
2339 arguments we do not recognize.
2341 o Minor features (more useful logging):
2342 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
2343 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
2344 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
2345 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
2346 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
2347 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
2348 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
2349 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
2350 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
2351 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
2352 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
2353 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
2354 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
2355 got suppressed since the last warning.
2356 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
2357 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
2358 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
2359 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
2360 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
2361 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
2362 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
2364 o Minor features (log domains):
2365 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
2366 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
2367 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
2369 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
2370 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
2372 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
2373 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
2374 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
2376 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
2377 during the TLS handshake.
2379 o Minor features (build process):
2380 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
2381 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
2382 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
2384 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
2385 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
2386 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
2388 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
2389 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
2390 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
2391 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
2392 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
2393 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
2395 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
2396 source files Tor was built with.
2397 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
2398 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
2399 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
2400 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
2401 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
2402 speeds up the build considerably.
2404 o Minor features (options / torrc):
2405 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
2406 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
2407 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
2408 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
2409 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
2410 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
2411 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
2412 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
2413 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
2414 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
2415 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
2416 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
2417 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
2418 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
2419 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
2420 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
2421 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
2422 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
2423 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
2424 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
2425 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
2426 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
2427 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
2428 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
2429 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
2430 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
2431 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
2433 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
2434 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
2435 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
2438 o Minor features (unit tests):
2439 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
2440 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
2441 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
2442 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
2443 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
2444 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
2446 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
2447 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
2450 o Minor features (misc):
2451 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
2452 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
2453 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
2454 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
2456 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
2457 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
2458 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
2459 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
2460 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
2462 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
2463 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
2464 open() without checking it.
2465 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
2466 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
2467 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
2468 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
2470 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2471 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
2472 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
2473 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
2474 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
2475 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
2476 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
2477 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
2478 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
2479 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
2480 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
2481 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
2482 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
2483 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
2484 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
2485 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
2486 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
2487 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
2488 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
2489 based on the time during which we were active and not in
2490 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
2491 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
2492 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
2493 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
2494 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2495 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
2496 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
2497 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
2499 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
2500 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
2501 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
2502 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
2504 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2505 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
2506 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
2507 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
2508 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
2510 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
2511 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
2512 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2513 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
2514 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
2515 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
2516 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
2517 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
2518 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
2519 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
2520 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
2521 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
2522 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
2524 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2525 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
2526 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
2527 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
2528 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
2529 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
2530 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
2531 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
2532 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
2533 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
2534 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
2535 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2536 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
2537 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
2538 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
2539 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
2540 two-hop circuits are actually created.
2541 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
2542 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2543 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
2544 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
2546 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2547 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
2548 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
2549 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
2550 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
2551 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
2552 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
2553 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
2554 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
2556 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
2557 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
2558 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
2559 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
2560 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
2561 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
2562 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
2563 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
2564 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
2565 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
2566 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
2567 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
2568 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
2571 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2572 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
2573 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
2574 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
2575 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2576 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
2577 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
2578 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
2579 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
2580 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
2581 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
2583 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
2584 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
2586 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
2587 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
2588 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
2589 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
2590 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2591 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
2592 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
2593 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
2595 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
2596 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2597 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2598 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2599 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
2600 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
2601 discovered by katmagic.
2602 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
2603 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
2605 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
2606 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2607 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
2608 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
2609 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
2610 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
2611 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
2612 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
2613 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
2615 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
2616 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
2618 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
2619 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
2621 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
2622 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
2624 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
2625 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
2626 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
2627 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2628 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
2629 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
2630 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2631 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
2632 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
2633 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
2634 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
2635 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
2636 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
2637 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
2638 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
2640 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
2641 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
2642 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
2643 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
2644 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
2645 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
2646 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
2647 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
2648 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
2650 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
2651 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2652 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2654 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
2655 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
2656 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
2657 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
2659 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2660 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2661 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2662 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2663 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2664 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
2665 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
2667 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
2668 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
2669 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
2670 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2671 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
2672 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
2674 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
2675 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
2676 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
2677 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
2678 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
2679 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
2680 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
2681 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2682 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
2684 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
2685 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
2686 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2687 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
2688 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2689 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
2690 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
2691 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
2692 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
2693 control-spec.txt said they were.
2695 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2696 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
2697 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
2699 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
2700 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2701 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
2702 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
2703 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
2705 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
2706 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
2708 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
2709 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
2710 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
2711 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
2712 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
2713 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
2714 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
2716 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
2717 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
2718 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
2719 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2720 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
2721 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
2722 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
2723 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
2726 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2727 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2728 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2729 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2730 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2731 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2732 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2733 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2734 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2735 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2736 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2737 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2738 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2739 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2740 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
2742 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
2743 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
2744 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
2745 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
2746 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
2747 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2748 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
2750 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
2751 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
2754 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
2755 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2756 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2757 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2758 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2759 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2760 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
2761 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
2762 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
2763 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
2764 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
2765 fixes part of bug 3407.
2766 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2767 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
2768 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
2769 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
2770 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
2771 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
2772 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
2773 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
2774 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
2775 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
2777 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
2778 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
2779 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
2780 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
2781 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
2782 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
2783 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
2784 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2785 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
2786 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
2787 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
2788 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2789 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
2790 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
2791 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
2792 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
2793 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
2795 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
2796 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
2797 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
2798 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
2799 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
2800 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
2802 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
2803 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
2804 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
2805 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
2806 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
2808 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
2809 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
2810 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
2811 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
2812 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
2814 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
2815 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
2816 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
2817 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
2819 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
2820 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
2821 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
2822 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
2823 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
2824 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
2825 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
2826 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
2827 structures and defines in or.h for now.
2828 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
2830 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
2831 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
2832 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
2833 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
2834 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
2835 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
2836 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
2837 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
2839 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
2840 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
2841 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
2843 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2844 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
2845 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
2846 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
2847 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
2848 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
2849 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
2850 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
2851 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
2852 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
2854 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
2856 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
2857 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
2858 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
2859 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
2860 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
2861 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
2862 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
2863 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
2864 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
2865 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
2867 o Documentation changes:
2868 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
2869 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
2871 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
2872 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
2873 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
2874 what should go in a patch.
2875 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
2877 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
2878 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
2879 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
2880 projects directory in svn.
2882 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
2883 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
2884 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
2885 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
2886 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
2887 hidden service usage.
2888 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
2889 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
2890 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
2891 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
2892 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
2895 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
2896 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
2897 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
2898 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
2899 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
2902 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
2903 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
2904 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
2905 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
2906 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
2907 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
2908 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
2909 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
2910 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
2911 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
2912 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
2913 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
2914 via application-level web tricks.
2915 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
2916 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
2917 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
2918 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
2919 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
2920 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
2921 send a body too). Since only server versions before
2922 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
2923 keep the workaround in place.
2924 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
2925 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
2926 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
2927 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
2928 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
2929 want to do it differently.
2930 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
2931 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
2932 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
2935 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
2936 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
2937 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
2938 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
2939 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
2940 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
2943 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
2944 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
2945 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
2946 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
2947 the rest of bug 1074.
2948 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
2949 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2951 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
2952 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
2953 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
2954 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
2955 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
2956 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
2957 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2960 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
2962 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2965 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
2966 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
2967 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
2968 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
2969 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
2970 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
2971 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
2972 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
2973 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
2974 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
2975 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2977 o Packaging changes:
2978 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
2979 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
2980 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
2981 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
2982 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
2983 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
2986 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
2987 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
2988 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
2989 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
2990 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
2992 o Major bugfixes (security):
2993 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
2994 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
2995 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
2997 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
2998 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
2999 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
3000 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
3001 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
3002 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
3003 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
3004 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
3006 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3007 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
3008 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
3009 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
3010 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
3011 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
3012 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
3013 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
3014 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
3015 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
3016 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
3017 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
3018 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
3019 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
3022 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3023 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
3024 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
3025 bug reported by doorss.
3026 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
3027 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
3028 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3029 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
3030 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
3032 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
3033 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
3034 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
3035 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
3036 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3039 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3040 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
3043 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
3044 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
3045 Automake 1.7 or later.
3046 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
3047 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
3048 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
3049 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
3052 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
3053 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
3054 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
3055 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
3059 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
3060 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
3061 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
3062 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
3064 o Directory authority changes:
3065 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
3068 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3071 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
3072 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
3073 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
3074 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
3075 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
3078 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
3079 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
3080 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
3081 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
3082 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3083 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
3084 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
3085 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
3086 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
3087 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3088 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
3089 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3090 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
3091 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
3092 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
3093 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
3094 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
3095 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3096 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
3097 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
3098 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
3099 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
3100 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
3103 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
3104 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
3105 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
3106 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
3108 o New directory authorities:
3109 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
3113 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
3114 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
3115 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
3117 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
3118 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3119 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
3120 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
3121 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
3122 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
3124 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
3125 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
3126 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
3129 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
3130 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
3131 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
3132 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
3133 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
3134 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
3135 Patch from mingw-san.
3138 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
3139 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
3140 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
3141 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
3142 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
3143 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
3146 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
3147 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
3148 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
3149 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
3150 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
3152 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
3153 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
3156 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
3157 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
3158 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
3159 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
3160 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
3161 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
3162 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
3163 their directory fetches over TLS).
3164 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
3165 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
3166 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
3167 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
3168 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
3169 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
3170 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
3171 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
3174 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
3175 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
3179 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
3180 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3181 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
3182 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
3183 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
3184 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
3185 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3188 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
3189 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
3190 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
3191 several minor potential security bugs.
3194 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
3195 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
3196 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
3197 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
3198 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
3199 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
3200 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
3203 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
3204 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
3206 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
3207 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
3208 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
3209 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
3212 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
3213 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
3217 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
3218 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
3219 customized patches to run/build.
3222 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
3223 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
3224 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
3227 o Major bugfixes (performance):
3228 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
3229 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
3230 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
3231 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
3232 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
3233 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
3234 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
3237 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
3238 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
3239 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
3240 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
3241 libraries in a security patch.
3242 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
3243 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
3244 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
3245 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
3249 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
3250 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
3253 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
3254 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
3255 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
3256 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
3257 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
3260 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
3261 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
3262 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
3263 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
3264 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
3266 o Directory authority changes:
3267 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
3271 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
3272 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
3273 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3276 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
3277 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
3278 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
3279 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
3280 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
3283 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
3284 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
3285 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
3286 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
3287 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
3288 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
3289 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
3292 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
3293 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
3294 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3295 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
3296 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
3297 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
3299 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
3300 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
3303 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
3304 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
3305 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
3306 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
3308 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
3309 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
3311 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
3312 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
3313 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
3314 in the Vidalia Settings window.
3317 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
3318 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
3319 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
3320 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
3321 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
3323 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
3324 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
3326 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
3327 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
3328 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
3331 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
3332 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
3333 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
3335 o New directory authorities:
3336 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
3338 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
3341 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
3342 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
3344 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
3345 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
3346 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3347 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
3348 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
3349 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
3350 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3351 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3352 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
3353 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
3354 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
3355 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
3356 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
3357 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
3358 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
3359 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
3360 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
3362 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
3363 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
3364 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
3366 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
3367 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
3371 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
3372 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
3373 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
3374 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
3375 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
3378 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
3379 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
3383 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
3384 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
3385 part of patch provided by "optimist".
3388 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
3389 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
3390 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
3391 and confuse fewer users.
3394 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
3395 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
3396 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
3397 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
3398 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
3399 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
3400 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
3403 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
3404 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
3405 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
3406 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
3407 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
3408 other features and bug fixes.
3410 o Major features (clients):
3411 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
3412 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
3413 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
3414 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
3416 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
3417 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
3418 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
3419 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
3420 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
3421 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
3422 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
3423 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
3424 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
3425 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
3427 o Major features (relays):
3428 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
3429 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
3430 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
3431 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
3432 data. Found by Jacob.
3433 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
3434 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
3435 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
3436 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
3438 o Major features (hidden services):
3439 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
3440 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
3441 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
3442 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
3443 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
3444 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
3445 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
3446 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
3447 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
3448 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
3449 lookups more reliable.
3451 o Major features (path selection):
3452 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
3453 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
3454 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
3455 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
3456 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
3458 o Major features (misc):
3459 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
3460 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
3462 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
3463 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
3464 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
3465 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
3466 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
3467 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
3469 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
3470 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
3471 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
3472 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
3474 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
3477 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
3478 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
3479 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
3480 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
3481 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
3482 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
3483 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
3484 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
3485 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
3486 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
3487 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
3488 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
3489 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
3490 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
3491 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
3492 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
3493 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
3494 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
3495 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
3496 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
3497 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3498 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
3499 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
3500 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
3501 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
3502 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
3503 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
3504 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
3505 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
3506 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
3507 Implements proposal 148.
3509 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3510 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
3511 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
3512 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
3513 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
3514 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
3516 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
3517 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
3518 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
3519 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
3520 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
3521 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
3522 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
3523 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3524 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
3526 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
3527 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
3528 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
3529 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
3531 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
3532 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
3533 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
3534 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
3535 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
3536 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
3537 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
3538 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
3539 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3541 o Major bugfixes (clients):
3542 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
3543 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
3544 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
3545 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
3546 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
3547 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
3548 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
3549 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
3550 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
3551 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
3552 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
3553 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
3554 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
3555 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
3556 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
3559 o Major bugfixes (relays):
3560 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
3561 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
3562 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
3563 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
3564 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
3566 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
3567 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
3568 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
3569 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
3570 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
3571 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
3572 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
3573 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
3574 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
3575 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
3578 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3579 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
3580 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
3581 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
3582 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
3583 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
3585 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
3586 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
3587 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
3588 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
3589 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
3590 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
3591 on a typical directory cache.
3592 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
3593 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
3594 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
3595 and may reduce fragmentation.
3597 o New/changed config options:
3598 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
3599 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
3600 Suggested by Lucky Green.
3601 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
3602 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
3603 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
3604 locked down these days.
3605 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
3606 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
3607 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
3608 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
3609 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
3610 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
3611 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
3612 output to messages of warning and error severity.
3613 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
3614 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
3615 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
3616 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
3617 directory requests we should expect to see.
3618 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
3619 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3620 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
3621 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
3622 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
3623 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
3624 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
3626 o Minor features (relays):
3627 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
3628 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
3629 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
3630 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
3631 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
3633 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
3634 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
3635 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
3636 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
3637 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
3638 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
3639 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
3640 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
3641 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
3642 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
3643 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
3644 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
3645 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
3647 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3648 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
3649 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
3650 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
3651 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
3652 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
3653 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
3654 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
3655 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
3656 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
3657 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
3659 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
3660 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
3661 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
3662 fingerprints with or without space.
3664 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
3665 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
3666 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
3667 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
3668 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
3669 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
3670 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
3671 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
3672 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
3674 o Minor features (bridges):
3675 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
3676 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
3678 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
3679 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
3682 o Minor features (hidden services):
3683 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
3684 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
3685 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
3686 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
3687 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
3688 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
3689 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
3690 faster after restart.
3691 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
3692 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
3694 o Minor features (build and packaging):
3695 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
3697 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
3698 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
3700 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
3701 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
3702 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
3703 entirely. Patch from coderman.
3704 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
3705 are built without support for deprecated functions.
3706 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
3707 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
3708 system to do it for us.
3709 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
3710 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
3711 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
3712 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
3713 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
3714 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
3715 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
3716 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
3717 the letter of C99's alias rules.
3718 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
3719 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
3720 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
3721 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
3722 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
3723 with log.h on Android.
3724 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
3725 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
3727 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
3728 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
3729 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
3730 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
3732 o Minor features (controllers):
3733 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
3734 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
3735 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
3736 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
3737 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
3738 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
3739 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
3740 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
3741 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
3742 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
3744 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
3745 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
3746 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
3747 been fetched and validated.
3748 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
3749 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
3751 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
3753 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
3754 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
3755 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
3756 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
3757 partway through and wants to catch up.
3758 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
3760 o Minor features (tools):
3761 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
3762 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
3763 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
3764 people find host:port too confusing.
3765 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
3766 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
3768 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
3769 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
3770 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3771 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
3772 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
3773 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
3774 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
3775 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
3776 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
3778 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
3779 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
3780 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
3781 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
3782 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
3784 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
3785 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
3786 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
3788 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
3789 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3790 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
3791 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
3792 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
3793 have already been marked for close.
3794 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
3795 memory performance during directory parsing.
3797 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3798 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
3799 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
3800 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
3801 done that for a long time.
3802 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
3803 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
3804 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
3805 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
3806 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
3807 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
3808 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
3809 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
3810 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3811 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
3812 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
3813 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
3814 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
3815 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
3816 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
3817 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
3818 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
3819 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
3820 because of a pending download.
3821 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
3822 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
3823 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
3824 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
3825 bug 820, reported by seeess.
3827 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3828 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
3829 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
3830 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
3831 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
3832 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
3833 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
3834 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
3835 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
3837 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3838 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
3840 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
3841 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
3842 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3843 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
3844 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
3845 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
3846 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
3847 of 0. Suggested by lark.
3848 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
3849 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
3850 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3851 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
3852 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
3854 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
3855 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
3856 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
3858 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
3859 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
3861 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
3862 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
3863 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
3864 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
3865 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
3866 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
3867 rest, and don't automatically fail.
3868 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
3869 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
3870 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
3871 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
3872 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
3873 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3875 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3876 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
3877 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
3878 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
3879 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
3880 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
3881 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
3883 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
3884 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3886 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3887 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
3888 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
3889 Workaround for bug 1024.
3890 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
3891 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
3892 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
3893 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
3894 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
3895 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
3896 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
3897 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
3900 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
3901 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
3904 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
3905 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
3906 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
3907 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
3908 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
3909 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
3910 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
3912 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
3913 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
3914 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
3915 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
3916 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
3917 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
3918 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
3919 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
3922 o Deprecated and removed features:
3923 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
3924 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
3925 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
3927 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
3929 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
3930 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
3931 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
3932 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
3933 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
3934 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
3935 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
3936 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
3937 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
3938 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
3939 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
3940 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
3941 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
3942 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
3945 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3946 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
3947 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
3948 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
3949 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
3951 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
3952 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
3953 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
3954 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
3955 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
3956 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
3957 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
3958 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
3959 actual mistakes we're making here.
3960 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
3961 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
3962 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
3963 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
3964 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
3965 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
3966 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
3967 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
3968 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
3969 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
3970 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
3971 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
3972 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
3973 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
3974 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
3977 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
3979 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
3980 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
3981 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
3982 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
3983 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
3986 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
3987 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
3988 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
3989 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
3990 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
3991 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
3992 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
3993 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
3994 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
3995 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
3998 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
3999 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
4000 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
4001 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
4002 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
4003 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
4004 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
4005 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
4008 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
4009 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
4010 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
4011 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
4012 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
4014 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
4015 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
4016 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
4017 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
4020 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
4021 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4022 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
4023 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
4024 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
4025 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
4026 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
4027 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
4030 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
4031 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
4032 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
4033 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
4036 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
4037 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
4038 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
4039 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
4041 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
4042 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
4043 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
4046 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
4047 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
4050 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
4051 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
4052 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
4053 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
4054 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
4056 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
4057 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
4058 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
4059 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
4060 identify a connection.
4061 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
4062 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
4063 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
4064 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
4065 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
4066 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
4067 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4068 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
4069 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
4070 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
4072 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
4073 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
4074 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
4075 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
4076 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
4077 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
4078 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
4081 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
4082 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
4084 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
4085 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
4086 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
4087 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
4088 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
4089 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
4090 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4091 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
4093 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
4094 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
4095 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
4096 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
4097 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
4098 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
4099 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
4100 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
4101 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
4102 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
4103 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
4104 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
4105 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
4106 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
4107 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
4108 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
4109 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
4110 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
4111 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
4112 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
4113 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
4114 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
4115 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
4116 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
4117 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
4118 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
4119 840. Patch from rovv.
4120 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
4121 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
4122 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
4124 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
4125 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
4126 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
4127 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
4128 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
4129 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
4130 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
4132 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4133 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
4134 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
4137 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
4138 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
4140 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
4141 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
4142 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
4143 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
4144 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
4145 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
4146 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
4147 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
4148 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
4150 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
4152 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
4153 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
4157 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
4158 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
4159 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
4160 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
4161 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
4162 variety of other issues.
4165 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
4166 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
4167 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
4168 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
4169 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
4170 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
4171 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
4172 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
4173 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
4174 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
4175 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
4176 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
4179 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
4180 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
4182 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4183 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
4184 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
4185 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
4186 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
4187 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
4188 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4189 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
4190 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
4191 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
4192 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
4193 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
4194 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
4195 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
4196 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
4200 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
4201 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
4202 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
4203 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
4204 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
4205 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
4206 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
4207 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
4208 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
4209 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
4210 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
4211 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
4212 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
4213 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
4214 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
4215 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
4216 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
4217 list. It has been gone for many months.
4218 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
4219 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
4220 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
4223 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4224 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
4225 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
4228 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
4229 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
4230 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
4231 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
4234 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
4235 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
4236 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
4237 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
4238 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
4239 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
4241 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
4242 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
4243 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
4244 pointed out by rovv.
4247 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
4248 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4249 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
4250 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
4251 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
4252 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
4253 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
4254 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
4255 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
4256 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4257 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
4258 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
4259 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
4260 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
4261 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
4262 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
4263 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
4264 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
4265 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
4266 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
4267 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
4270 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
4271 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
4272 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
4273 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
4274 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
4275 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
4276 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
4278 o New v3 directory design:
4279 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
4280 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
4281 network status document rather than each publishing their own
4282 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
4283 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
4284 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
4285 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
4287 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
4288 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
4289 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
4290 dannenberg (run by CCC).
4291 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
4292 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
4293 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
4294 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
4295 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
4296 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
4297 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
4298 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
4299 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
4300 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
4302 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
4303 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
4304 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
4305 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
4306 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
4307 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
4308 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
4309 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
4310 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
4311 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
4312 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
4313 certain censored countries by default again.
4314 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
4315 Tor's x509 certificates.
4317 o Implement bridge relays:
4318 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
4319 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
4320 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
4321 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
4322 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
4323 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
4324 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
4325 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
4326 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
4327 rather than "v2,v3".
4328 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
4329 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
4330 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
4331 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
4332 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
4333 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
4334 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
4335 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
4336 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
4337 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
4338 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
4340 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
4341 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
4342 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
4343 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
4344 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
4345 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
4346 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
4347 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
4348 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
4349 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
4350 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
4351 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
4352 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
4353 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
4354 bridges are functioning.
4355 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
4356 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
4357 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
4358 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
4359 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
4360 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
4361 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
4362 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
4363 knows that password. Unset by default.
4364 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
4365 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
4366 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
4367 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
4368 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
4369 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
4370 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
4371 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
4372 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
4373 and bridges@torproject.org.
4375 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
4376 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
4377 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
4378 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
4379 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
4380 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
4381 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
4382 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
4383 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
4384 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
4385 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
4386 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
4387 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
4388 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
4389 longer a completely silly thing to do.
4391 o Major features (relay usability):
4392 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
4393 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
4394 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
4395 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
4396 proposal 111 for details.
4397 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
4398 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
4399 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
4400 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
4402 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
4403 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
4404 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
4406 o Major features (directory authorities):
4407 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
4408 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
4409 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
4410 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
4411 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
4412 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
4413 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
4414 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
4415 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
4416 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
4417 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
4418 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
4419 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
4421 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
4422 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
4423 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
4424 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
4425 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
4426 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
4427 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
4428 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
4429 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
4430 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
4431 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
4432 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
4433 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
4434 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
4435 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
4436 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
4437 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
4438 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
4439 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
4440 general, controller, or bridge.
4442 o Major features (other):
4443 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
4444 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
4445 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
4446 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
4447 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
4448 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
4449 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
4450 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
4451 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
4452 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
4453 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
4454 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
4455 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
4456 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
4459 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
4460 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
4461 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
4463 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
4464 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
4465 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
4466 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
4467 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
4468 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
4469 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
4470 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
4471 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
4472 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
4473 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
4475 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
4476 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
4478 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
4479 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
4480 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
4481 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
4483 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
4484 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
4485 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
4486 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
4487 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
4489 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
4490 address maps to an internal address space.
4491 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
4492 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
4493 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
4494 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
4495 complements proposal 107.
4496 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
4497 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
4498 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
4499 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
4500 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
4501 reported by taranis and lodger.
4502 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
4503 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
4504 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
4505 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
4506 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
4507 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
4508 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
4509 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
4510 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
4511 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
4512 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
4513 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
4514 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
4516 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
4517 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
4519 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
4520 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
4521 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
4522 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
4523 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
4524 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
4525 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
4527 o Major bugfixes (other):
4528 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
4529 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
4530 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
4532 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
4533 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
4534 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
4535 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
4536 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
4537 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
4538 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
4539 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
4540 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
4541 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
4542 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
4543 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
4544 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
4545 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
4546 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
4547 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
4548 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
4549 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
4550 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
4552 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
4553 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
4554 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
4555 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
4556 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
4557 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
4558 eat all of our bandwidth.
4559 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
4560 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
4561 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
4562 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
4563 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
4564 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
4565 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
4566 bug 688, reported by mfr.
4567 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
4568 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
4569 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
4570 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
4572 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
4573 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
4574 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
4575 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
4576 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
4577 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
4578 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
4579 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
4580 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
4581 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
4582 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
4583 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
4585 o Performance improvements (memory):
4586 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
4587 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
4588 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
4589 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
4590 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
4591 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
4592 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
4593 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
4594 memory fragmentation.
4595 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
4596 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
4597 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
4598 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
4599 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
4601 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
4602 of them were actually distinct.
4603 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
4605 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
4606 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
4607 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
4608 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
4609 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
4610 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
4611 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
4612 performance-intensive.
4613 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
4614 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
4615 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
4616 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
4617 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
4620 o Performance improvements (socket management):
4621 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
4622 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
4623 our allocated connection limit.
4624 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
4625 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
4626 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
4627 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
4628 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
4630 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
4631 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
4633 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
4634 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
4635 is interested in a given message.
4636 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
4637 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
4638 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
4639 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
4640 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
4642 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
4643 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
4644 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
4646 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
4647 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
4648 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
4650 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
4651 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
4652 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
4653 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
4656 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
4657 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
4658 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
4659 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
4660 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
4661 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
4662 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
4664 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
4665 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
4666 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
4667 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
4668 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
4669 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
4670 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
4671 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
4672 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
4673 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
4674 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
4675 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
4676 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
4679 o Changed config option behavior (features):
4680 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
4681 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
4682 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
4683 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
4684 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
4685 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
4686 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
4687 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
4688 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
4689 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
4690 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
4691 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
4692 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
4693 and are reaching it.
4694 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
4695 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
4696 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
4697 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
4699 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
4700 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
4701 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
4702 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
4703 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
4704 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
4705 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
4706 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
4707 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
4709 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
4710 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
4711 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
4712 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
4713 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
4714 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
4715 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
4716 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
4718 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
4719 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
4721 o New config options:
4722 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
4723 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
4724 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
4725 running a test network on a single host.
4726 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
4727 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
4728 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
4729 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
4730 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
4731 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
4732 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
4733 the approved-routers file.
4734 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
4735 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
4736 v2 directory information.
4738 o Minor features (other):
4739 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
4740 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
4741 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
4742 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
4743 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
4744 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
4746 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
4747 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
4748 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
4749 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
4750 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
4751 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
4752 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
4754 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
4755 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
4756 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
4758 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
4759 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
4760 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
4761 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
4762 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
4764 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
4765 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
4766 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
4767 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
4768 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
4769 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
4770 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
4772 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
4773 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
4774 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
4775 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
4776 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
4777 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
4778 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
4779 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
4780 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
4783 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4784 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
4785 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
4787 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
4788 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
4789 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
4790 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
4791 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
4792 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
4794 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
4795 bandwidthburst values.
4796 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
4797 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
4798 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
4799 to mark all our entry points down.
4800 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
4801 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
4802 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
4803 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
4804 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
4806 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
4807 more often than they are allowed to appear.
4808 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
4809 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
4810 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
4811 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
4812 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
4813 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
4814 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
4816 o Controller features:
4817 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
4818 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
4819 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
4820 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
4821 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
4822 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
4824 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
4825 multiple controller passwords.
4826 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
4827 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
4828 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
4829 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
4831 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
4832 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
4833 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
4834 cookie authentication file, and config option
4835 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
4836 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
4837 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
4838 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
4840 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
4841 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
4842 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
4843 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
4844 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
4845 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
4846 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
4848 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
4849 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
4851 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
4852 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
4853 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
4854 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
4855 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
4856 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
4857 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
4858 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
4859 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
4860 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
4861 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
4862 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
4863 report the value as a "minimum skew."
4865 o Controller bugfixes:
4866 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
4867 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
4868 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
4869 processes can't run us out of memory.
4870 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
4871 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
4872 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
4874 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
4875 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
4876 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
4877 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
4878 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
4879 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
4880 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
4881 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
4882 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
4883 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
4884 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
4885 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
4886 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
4887 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
4888 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
4890 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
4891 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
4893 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
4894 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
4895 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
4896 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
4897 WARN-severity events.
4899 o Portability / building / compiling:
4900 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
4901 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
4902 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
4903 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
4904 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
4905 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
4906 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
4907 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
4908 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
4909 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
4910 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
4911 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
4912 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
4914 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
4915 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
4916 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
4917 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
4918 Use this version consistently in log messages.
4919 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
4920 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
4921 partial results on small file reads.
4922 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
4923 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
4924 a directory. Fix from lodger.
4925 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
4926 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
4927 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
4929 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
4930 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
4931 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
4932 logging for the unit tests.
4933 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
4934 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
4936 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
4937 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
4939 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
4940 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
4941 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
4942 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
4945 o Logging improvements:
4946 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
4947 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
4948 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
4949 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
4950 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
4951 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
4952 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
4954 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
4955 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
4956 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
4957 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
4958 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
4959 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
4960 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
4961 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
4962 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
4963 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
4964 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
4965 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
4966 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
4967 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
4968 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
4969 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
4970 Good in combination with --hash-password.
4971 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
4972 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
4974 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
4975 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
4976 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
4977 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
4979 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
4980 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
4981 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
4982 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
4983 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
4985 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
4986 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
4987 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
4988 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
4989 makes the log messages nicer.
4990 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
4991 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
4993 o Contributed scripts and tools:
4994 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
4995 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
4997 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
4998 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
4999 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
5000 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
5001 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
5002 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
5003 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
5004 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
5005 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
5006 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
5008 o Newly deprecated features:
5009 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
5010 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
5011 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
5012 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
5015 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
5016 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
5017 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
5018 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
5019 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
5021 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
5022 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
5023 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
5024 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
5025 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
5026 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
5027 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
5028 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
5030 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
5031 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
5032 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
5033 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
5034 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
5035 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
5037 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
5038 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
5039 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
5040 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
5041 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
5042 patch from Karsten Loesing.
5043 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
5044 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
5045 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
5046 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
5047 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
5048 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
5049 code), this assumption no longer holds.
5050 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
5054 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
5055 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
5056 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
5057 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
5060 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
5061 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
5062 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
5063 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
5067 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
5068 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
5069 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
5070 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
5071 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
5072 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
5073 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
5074 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
5075 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
5076 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
5077 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
5078 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
5081 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
5082 rebuild our server descriptor.
5083 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
5084 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
5085 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
5086 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
5087 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
5088 nonstandard integer types.
5089 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
5090 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
5091 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
5092 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
5093 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
5095 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
5096 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
5097 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
5098 when they receive them.
5099 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
5100 This includes some 64-bit systems.
5101 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
5102 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
5103 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
5104 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
5105 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
5106 router_get_by_hexdigest().
5107 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
5108 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
5112 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
5113 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
5114 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
5115 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
5116 lists for a few hours each day.
5118 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5119 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
5120 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
5121 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
5122 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
5123 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5124 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
5125 rend_process_relay_cell().
5127 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5128 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
5129 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
5130 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
5131 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
5132 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
5133 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
5134 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
5136 o Major bugfixes (other):
5137 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
5138 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
5139 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
5140 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
5141 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
5142 circuit cannibalization).
5143 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
5144 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
5145 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
5146 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
5147 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
5148 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
5151 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
5152 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
5154 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
5155 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
5156 absent. Resolves bug 467.
5157 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
5158 a way to trigger this remotely.)
5159 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
5160 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
5161 were reporting the dir port.)
5162 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
5163 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
5164 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
5165 the future. Fixes bug 434.
5166 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
5168 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
5169 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
5170 the onion key from getting rotated.
5171 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
5172 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
5173 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
5174 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
5175 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
5176 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
5177 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
5180 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
5181 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
5182 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
5183 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
5184 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
5187 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
5188 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
5191 o Major bugfixes (security):
5192 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
5193 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
5194 become more of a headache than it's worth.
5196 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
5197 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
5198 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
5200 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
5201 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
5202 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
5203 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
5204 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
5205 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
5207 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
5208 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
5209 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
5210 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
5211 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
5213 o Minor features (controller):
5214 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
5215 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
5216 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
5217 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
5219 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5220 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
5221 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
5222 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
5223 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
5224 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
5225 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
5226 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
5228 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5229 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
5230 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
5231 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
5232 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
5233 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
5234 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
5235 if we ran off the end of the list.
5236 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
5237 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
5238 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
5239 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
5240 every time we change any piece of our config.
5241 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
5242 encourage people using them to stop.
5243 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
5245 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
5246 servers to choose a circuit.
5247 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
5248 unparseable piece of it.
5251 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
5252 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
5253 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
5254 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
5255 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
5256 TorK, etc. Or worse.
5258 o Major security fixes:
5259 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
5260 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
5263 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
5264 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
5265 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
5266 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
5268 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5269 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
5271 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5272 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
5273 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
5274 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
5275 routerlist while inserting a new router.
5276 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
5277 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
5279 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
5280 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
5281 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
5283 o Major bugfixes (security):
5284 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
5286 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
5287 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
5288 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
5289 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
5290 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
5291 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
5292 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
5293 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
5294 guard list unless we need to.
5296 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
5297 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
5298 don't get overused as guards.
5300 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5301 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
5302 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
5303 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
5304 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
5306 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5307 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
5308 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
5311 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5312 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
5313 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
5314 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
5315 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
5316 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
5317 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
5318 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
5321 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
5322 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
5323 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
5324 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
5326 o Directory authority changes:
5327 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
5328 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
5329 or use hidden services.
5331 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
5332 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
5333 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
5334 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
5335 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
5336 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
5337 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
5338 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
5339 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
5342 o Major bugfixes (security):
5343 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
5344 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
5345 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
5347 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
5348 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
5349 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
5350 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
5351 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
5352 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
5353 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
5354 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
5355 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
5356 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
5359 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
5361 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
5362 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
5364 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
5365 having a hard time downloading.
5366 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
5367 partial results on small file reads.
5368 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
5369 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
5370 the gaps in the store get very large.
5373 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
5374 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
5376 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
5377 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
5380 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
5381 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
5382 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
5383 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
5384 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
5385 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
5387 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
5388 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
5389 free speech on the Internet.
5391 o Major features, client performance:
5392 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
5393 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
5394 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
5395 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
5396 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
5397 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
5398 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
5399 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
5400 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
5401 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
5402 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
5403 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
5404 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
5405 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
5406 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
5408 o Major features, client functionality:
5409 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
5410 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
5411 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
5412 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
5413 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
5414 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
5415 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
5416 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
5417 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
5418 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
5419 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
5420 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
5421 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
5423 o Major features, servers:
5424 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
5425 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
5426 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
5427 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
5428 authenticated, so use with care.
5429 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
5430 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
5431 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
5433 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
5434 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
5435 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
5436 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
5437 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
5438 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
5440 o Improvements on DNS support:
5441 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
5442 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
5443 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
5444 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
5445 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
5446 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
5447 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
5448 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
5449 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
5450 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
5451 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
5452 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
5453 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
5454 lets you turn it off.
5455 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
5456 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
5457 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
5458 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
5459 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
5460 useful to the network.
5461 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
5462 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
5463 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
5464 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
5465 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
5466 our tests for DNS hijacking.
5468 o Improvements on reachability testing:
5469 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
5470 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
5471 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
5472 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
5473 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
5474 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
5475 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
5476 if their identity keys are as expected.
5477 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
5478 chews through many circuits before giving up.
5479 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
5480 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
5481 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
5482 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
5483 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
5484 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
5485 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
5486 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
5487 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
5488 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
5489 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
5490 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
5492 o Improvements on rate limiting:
5493 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
5494 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
5495 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
5496 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
5497 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
5499 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
5500 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
5501 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
5502 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
5503 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
5504 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
5505 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
5506 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
5508 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
5509 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
5511 o Major features, NT services:
5512 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
5513 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
5514 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
5515 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
5516 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
5517 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
5518 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
5520 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
5521 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
5522 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
5524 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
5525 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
5526 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
5528 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
5529 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
5531 o Directory authority improvements:
5532 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
5534 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
5535 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
5536 too much load to the exit nodes.
5537 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
5538 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
5539 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
5540 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
5541 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
5542 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
5543 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
5544 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
5545 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
5546 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
5547 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
5548 broken. Not used yet.
5549 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
5550 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
5551 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
5552 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
5553 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
5554 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
5555 non-versioning dirservers.
5556 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
5557 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
5558 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
5560 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
5561 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
5562 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
5563 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
5565 o Directory mirrors and clients:
5566 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
5567 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
5568 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
5569 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
5570 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
5571 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
5572 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
5573 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
5574 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
5575 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
5576 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
5577 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
5578 routers for even longer.
5579 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
5580 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
5581 caching HTTP proxies.
5582 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
5583 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
5584 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
5585 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
5587 o Major fixes, crashes:
5588 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
5589 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
5590 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
5591 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
5593 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
5594 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
5595 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
5597 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
5598 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
5599 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
5600 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
5601 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
5602 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
5603 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
5604 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
5605 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
5606 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
5608 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
5609 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
5610 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
5611 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
5612 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
5613 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
5614 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
5615 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
5616 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
5617 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
5618 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
5619 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
5620 could return an unnamed server instead.
5621 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
5622 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
5623 a more attractive target for compromise.)
5624 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
5625 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
5626 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
5627 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
5629 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
5630 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
5632 o Major fixes, other:
5633 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
5634 uptime in the descriptor.
5635 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
5636 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
5637 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
5638 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
5639 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
5640 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
5641 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
5642 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
5643 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
5644 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
5645 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
5646 our DirPort now, etc.
5647 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
5648 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
5649 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
5651 o New config options or behaviors:
5652 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
5653 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
5654 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
5655 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
5656 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
5657 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
5658 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
5659 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
5660 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
5661 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
5662 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
5663 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
5665 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
5666 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
5667 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
5668 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
5669 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
5671 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
5672 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
5673 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
5674 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
5675 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
5676 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
5677 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
5678 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
5679 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
5680 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
5681 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
5682 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
5683 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
5684 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
5685 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
5686 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
5687 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
5688 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
5689 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
5690 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
5691 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
5692 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
5693 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
5694 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
5695 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
5696 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
5697 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
5698 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
5699 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
5700 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
5702 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
5703 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
5707 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
5708 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
5710 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
5711 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
5712 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
5713 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
5715 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
5716 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
5717 whether the config options are bad or good.
5718 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
5719 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
5720 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
5721 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
5722 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
5723 result more than once.
5724 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
5725 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
5726 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
5727 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
5728 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
5729 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
5730 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
5731 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
5732 before we check for libevent.
5733 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
5734 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
5735 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
5736 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
5737 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
5738 recommendation system saner.)
5739 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
5740 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
5741 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
5742 now universal binaries.
5743 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
5744 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
5746 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
5748 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
5749 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
5750 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
5751 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
5752 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
5753 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
5755 o Minor features, controller:
5756 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
5757 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
5758 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
5760 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
5761 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
5762 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
5763 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
5764 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
5765 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
5766 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
5768 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
5769 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
5770 connected or resolved cell.
5771 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
5772 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
5773 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
5774 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
5775 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
5776 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
5777 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
5779 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
5780 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
5781 entry guard status as it changes.
5782 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
5783 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
5784 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
5785 watching for STREAM events.
5786 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
5787 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
5788 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
5789 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
5791 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
5792 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
5793 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
5794 working much like those for circuit events.
5795 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
5796 about the current status of a router.
5797 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
5798 a router's status has changed.
5799 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
5800 can tell which events and features are supported.
5801 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
5802 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
5803 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
5804 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
5805 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
5806 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
5807 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
5808 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
5809 for more information.
5810 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
5811 best guess to the user.
5812 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
5813 descriptor has changed.
5814 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
5815 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
5816 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
5818 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
5819 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
5820 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
5821 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
5822 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
5823 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
5824 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
5825 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
5826 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
5827 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
5828 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
5830 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
5831 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
5833 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
5834 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
5835 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
5837 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
5838 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
5839 the controller from learning about current events.
5840 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
5841 reported by Mike Perry.
5842 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
5843 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
5844 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
5845 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
5846 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
5847 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
5848 long nicknames where appropriate.
5849 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
5850 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
5852 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
5853 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
5854 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
5855 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
5856 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
5858 o Minor features, code performance:
5859 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
5860 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
5861 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
5863 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
5864 some profiles, but not others.)
5865 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
5866 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
5867 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
5868 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
5869 operations, for profiling.
5870 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
5871 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
5872 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
5873 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
5874 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
5875 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
5876 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
5877 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
5879 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
5880 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
5881 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
5882 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
5883 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
5884 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
5885 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
5886 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
5887 family lists conveniently.
5889 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
5890 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
5891 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
5892 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
5893 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
5894 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
5895 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
5896 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
5897 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
5898 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
5899 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
5900 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
5901 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
5902 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
5903 of it), is not therefore "up".
5905 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
5906 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
5907 what version a router is running.
5908 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
5909 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
5910 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
5911 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
5913 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
5914 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
5915 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
5916 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
5917 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
5920 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
5921 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
5922 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
5924 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
5925 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
5927 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
5928 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
5929 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
5930 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
5931 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
5932 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
5933 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
5934 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
5935 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
5936 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
5938 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
5939 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
5940 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
5941 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
5942 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
5943 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
5944 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
5945 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
5946 get one we don't recognize.
5949 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
5950 o Security bugfixes:
5951 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
5952 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
5953 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
5954 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
5958 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
5959 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
5960 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
5963 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
5965 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
5966 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
5967 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
5968 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
5969 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
5970 its circuits on demand.
5971 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
5972 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
5973 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
5974 connections more stable on average.
5975 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
5976 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
5977 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
5979 o Security bugfixes:
5980 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
5981 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
5984 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
5986 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
5987 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
5988 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
5989 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
5990 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
5991 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
5992 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
5993 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
5996 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
5998 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
5999 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
6000 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
6001 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
6002 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
6003 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
6004 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
6005 it can't resolve its hostname.
6006 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
6007 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
6008 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
6011 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
6012 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
6013 "extendcircuit" request.
6014 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
6015 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
6016 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
6017 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
6019 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
6020 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
6021 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
6023 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
6024 methods: these are known to be buggy.
6025 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
6026 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
6030 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
6032 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
6033 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
6034 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
6035 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
6036 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
6037 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
6038 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
6039 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
6040 test reachability, so you won't publish.
6043 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
6044 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
6045 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
6046 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
6047 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
6049 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
6050 own server descriptor yet.
6053 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
6055 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
6056 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
6057 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
6058 make sure to test via one of these.
6059 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
6060 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
6061 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
6062 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
6063 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
6065 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
6066 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
6067 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
6070 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
6071 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
6072 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
6073 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
6074 directory authority.
6075 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
6076 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
6077 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
6078 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
6081 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
6082 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
6083 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
6085 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
6086 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
6087 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
6088 current guards when picking a new guard.
6089 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
6090 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
6091 when we had more than one pending.
6092 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
6093 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
6094 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
6095 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
6096 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
6097 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
6098 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
6099 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
6100 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
6101 debug the reachability problems better.
6103 o Log / documentation fixes:
6104 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
6105 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
6106 about protocol violations by others.
6107 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
6108 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
6109 about what happened to our old torrc.
6112 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
6113 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
6114 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
6115 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
6116 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
6117 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
6119 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
6120 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
6121 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
6122 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
6123 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
6124 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
6125 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
6126 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
6127 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
6128 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
6129 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
6130 on malicious huge inputs.
6132 o Security fixes, major:
6133 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
6134 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
6135 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
6136 misreading their logs.
6137 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
6138 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
6139 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
6140 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
6141 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
6142 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
6143 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
6144 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
6145 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
6146 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
6147 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
6148 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
6149 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
6150 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
6152 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
6153 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
6154 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
6155 firewall options forbid.
6156 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
6157 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
6158 can only proxy to certain destinations.
6159 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
6160 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
6161 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
6163 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
6164 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
6165 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
6166 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
6167 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
6168 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
6169 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
6170 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
6171 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
6172 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
6173 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
6174 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
6175 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
6177 o Security fixes, minor:
6178 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
6179 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
6181 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
6182 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
6183 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
6184 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
6185 if we've not heard of a server.
6186 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
6187 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
6188 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
6189 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
6190 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
6191 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
6192 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
6193 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
6194 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
6195 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
6196 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
6197 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
6198 aids some statistical attacks.
6199 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
6200 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
6201 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
6202 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
6203 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
6204 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
6205 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
6206 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
6209 o Packaging improvements:
6210 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
6211 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
6212 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
6213 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
6214 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
6215 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
6217 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
6218 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
6219 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
6220 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
6221 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
6222 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
6224 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
6225 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
6226 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
6228 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
6229 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
6230 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
6231 They are useless now.
6232 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
6233 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
6234 is reachable by you.
6235 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
6238 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
6239 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
6240 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
6241 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
6242 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
6243 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
6244 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
6245 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
6246 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
6247 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
6248 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
6249 and isolating attacks better.
6250 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
6251 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
6252 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
6253 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
6254 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
6255 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
6256 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
6257 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
6258 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
6259 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
6260 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
6262 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
6263 can answer v2 directory requests too.
6264 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
6265 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
6266 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
6267 mirrors still cache and serve it).
6268 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
6269 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
6270 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
6271 for clients and for servers.
6272 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
6273 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
6274 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
6275 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
6276 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
6277 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
6278 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
6279 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
6280 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
6281 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
6282 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
6284 o Other directory improvements:
6285 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
6286 fifth authoritative directory servers.
6287 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
6288 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
6289 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
6291 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
6292 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
6293 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
6294 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
6295 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
6296 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
6298 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
6299 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
6300 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
6301 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
6302 connections more reliable.
6303 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
6304 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
6305 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
6306 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
6307 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
6308 we fail to connect).
6309 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
6311 o Controller protocol improvements:
6312 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
6313 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
6314 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
6315 applications without caring how our protocol works.
6316 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
6317 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
6318 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
6319 many bytes we've used in this time period.
6320 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
6321 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
6322 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
6323 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
6324 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
6325 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
6326 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
6327 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
6328 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
6329 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
6331 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
6332 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
6333 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
6334 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
6335 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
6336 a router in its role as directory authority.
6337 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
6338 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
6339 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
6340 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
6341 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
6342 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
6343 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
6344 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
6345 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
6346 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
6347 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
6348 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
6349 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
6350 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
6351 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
6352 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
6353 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
6354 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
6356 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
6357 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
6358 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
6359 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
6360 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
6361 just tell them to go read their logs.
6363 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
6364 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
6365 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
6366 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
6367 try to be a bit more fair.
6368 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
6369 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
6370 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
6371 and we're using a default DirPort.
6372 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
6373 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
6374 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
6375 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
6376 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
6377 services faster on the service end.
6378 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
6380 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
6381 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
6382 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
6383 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
6384 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
6385 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
6386 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
6387 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
6388 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
6389 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
6390 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
6391 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
6392 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
6393 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
6394 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
6395 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
6396 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
6397 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
6398 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
6399 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
6400 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
6401 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
6402 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
6403 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
6404 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
6406 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
6407 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
6408 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
6409 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
6410 so we can be backward-compatible.
6411 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
6412 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
6413 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
6414 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
6415 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
6416 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
6417 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
6418 initial descriptor forever.
6419 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
6420 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
6421 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
6422 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
6423 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
6424 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
6425 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
6426 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
6427 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
6428 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
6429 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
6430 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
6431 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
6432 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
6433 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
6434 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
6435 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
6436 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
6437 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
6438 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
6439 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
6440 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
6441 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
6442 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
6443 ports that have changed.
6444 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
6445 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
6446 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
6447 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
6448 connections once a week.
6449 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
6450 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
6451 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
6452 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
6453 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
6454 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
6455 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
6456 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
6457 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
6458 able to discover them.
6459 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
6460 want to make it an NT service.
6461 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
6462 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
6463 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
6464 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
6465 memory leaks better.
6466 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
6467 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
6468 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
6469 statistics are now uint64_t's.
6470 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
6471 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
6472 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
6473 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
6474 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
6475 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
6476 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
6477 default ulimit -n is 1024.
6478 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
6479 and its existence is confusing some users.
6481 o Config option fixes:
6482 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
6483 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
6484 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
6485 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
6486 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
6487 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
6488 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
6489 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
6490 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
6492 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
6493 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
6494 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
6495 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
6496 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
6497 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
6498 it would silently ignore the 6668.
6499 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
6500 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
6501 silently resetting it to its default.
6502 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
6503 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
6504 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
6505 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
6506 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
6507 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
6508 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
6509 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
6510 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
6511 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
6512 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
6513 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
6514 Address config option.
6515 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
6516 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
6518 o Config option features:
6519 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
6520 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
6521 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
6522 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
6523 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
6525 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
6526 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
6527 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
6528 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
6529 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
6530 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
6531 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
6532 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
6533 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
6534 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
6535 in at least some cases.)
6536 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
6537 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
6538 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
6539 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
6540 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
6541 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
6542 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
6543 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
6544 even if we know they're jerks.
6545 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
6546 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
6547 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
6548 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
6549 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
6550 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
6551 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
6552 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
6553 because older Tors do not understand it.
6554 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
6555 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
6556 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
6557 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
6558 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
6559 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
6560 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
6561 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
6562 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
6563 unattached before we fail it?
6564 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
6565 at least this many seconds ago.
6566 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
6567 at least this many seconds ago.
6568 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
6569 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
6571 o Improved and clearer log messages:
6572 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
6573 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
6574 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
6576 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
6577 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
6578 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
6579 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
6580 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
6581 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
6582 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
6583 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
6584 temporarily unreachable.
6585 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
6586 Windows-style errno back.
6587 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
6588 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
6590 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
6591 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
6592 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
6593 exactly for this case.
6594 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
6595 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
6596 don't warn twice about the same name.
6597 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
6599 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
6600 it was self-testing that told us so.
6601 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
6602 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
6603 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
6604 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
6605 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
6606 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
6607 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
6608 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
6609 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
6610 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
6611 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
6612 established a circuit.
6613 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
6614 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
6615 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
6616 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
6617 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
6618 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
6619 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
6620 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
6621 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
6622 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
6623 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
6624 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
6625 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
6626 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
6627 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
6628 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
6629 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
6630 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
6631 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
6632 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
6633 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
6634 testing for reachability.
6635 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
6636 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
6638 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
6641 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
6642 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6643 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
6644 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
6646 o Other important bugfixes:
6647 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
6648 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
6649 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
6650 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
6652 o Backported features:
6653 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
6654 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
6655 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
6656 without getting overloaded.
6657 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
6658 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
6659 503's whenever they feel busy.
6660 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
6661 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
6662 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
6663 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
6664 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
6667 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
6668 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6669 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
6670 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
6671 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
6672 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
6673 too -- so detect and avoid this.
6674 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
6676 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
6677 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
6678 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
6679 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
6680 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
6681 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
6682 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
6683 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
6684 rendezvous circuits.
6685 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
6687 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6688 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
6689 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
6690 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
6691 advertising it because of hibernation.
6692 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
6693 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
6694 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
6695 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
6696 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
6697 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
6698 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
6699 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
6700 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
6701 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
6702 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
6703 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
6704 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
6705 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
6706 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
6709 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
6710 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6711 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
6712 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
6713 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
6714 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
6715 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
6716 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
6717 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
6718 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
6719 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
6720 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
6721 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
6722 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
6723 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
6726 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
6727 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6728 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
6730 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
6731 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
6734 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
6735 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6736 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
6737 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
6738 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
6739 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
6740 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
6742 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
6743 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
6747 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
6748 o New directory servers:
6749 - tor26 has changed IP address.
6751 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6752 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
6753 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
6755 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
6756 claims its dirport is 0.
6757 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
6758 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
6762 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
6763 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6764 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
6765 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
6766 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
6767 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
6768 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
6769 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
6772 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
6774 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
6775 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
6776 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
6777 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
6778 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
6779 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
6780 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
6781 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
6782 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
6784 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
6785 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
6787 o Assert / crash bugs:
6788 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
6789 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
6790 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
6792 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
6793 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
6794 TLS errors better in other situations too.
6795 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
6796 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
6799 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
6800 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
6801 duplicate ram over time.
6802 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
6803 reentry and threadsafeness.
6804 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
6805 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
6806 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
6808 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
6809 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
6810 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
6811 point at your Tor server.
6812 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
6814 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
6815 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
6818 o Protocol correctness:
6819 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
6820 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
6821 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
6822 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
6823 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
6824 to abandon partially built circuits.
6825 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
6826 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
6827 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
6828 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
6829 descriptors we just dropped.
6830 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
6831 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
6832 and to take errno into account where possible.
6833 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
6834 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
6835 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
6836 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
6838 o Robustness improvements:
6839 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
6840 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
6841 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
6843 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
6844 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
6845 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
6846 that will want high uptime circuits.
6847 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
6848 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
6849 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
6850 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
6851 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
6852 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
6853 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
6854 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
6855 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
6856 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
6857 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
6858 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
6859 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
6860 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
6861 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
6862 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
6863 for google.com" problem.
6864 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
6865 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
6866 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
6867 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
6868 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
6871 o Reachability testing.
6872 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
6873 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
6874 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
6875 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
6876 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
6877 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
6878 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
6879 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
6880 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
6881 already connected to them.
6882 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
6886 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
6887 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
6888 nickname+key are allowed.
6889 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
6890 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
6891 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
6892 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
6893 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
6894 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
6895 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
6896 have quite wrong clocks).
6897 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
6898 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
6899 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
6900 their descriptors are being rejected.
6902 o Efficiency improvements:
6903 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
6904 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
6905 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
6906 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
6907 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
6908 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
6909 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
6910 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
6911 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
6912 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
6914 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
6915 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
6916 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
6917 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
6918 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
6919 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
6920 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
6921 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
6922 of CPU time plus memory.
6923 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
6924 directory every time you regenerate it.
6925 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
6926 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
6927 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
6928 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
6929 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
6930 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
6931 lowercase when you first see them.
6934 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
6935 hidden services better.
6936 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
6937 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
6938 when we try to launch one.
6939 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
6940 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
6941 attempts to build a circuit.
6942 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
6943 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
6944 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
6945 normal web requests.
6948 - More Tor controller support. See
6949 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
6950 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
6951 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
6952 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
6953 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
6954 to make it easier to write controllers.
6955 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
6956 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
6957 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
6958 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
6959 new log event types.
6961 o New config options/defaults:
6962 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
6963 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
6964 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
6965 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
6966 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
6968 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
6970 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
6971 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
6972 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
6973 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
6974 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
6976 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
6977 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
6978 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
6979 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
6980 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
6981 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
6982 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
6983 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
6984 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
6985 required exit node for certain sites.
6986 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
6987 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
6988 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
6989 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
6990 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
6991 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
6992 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
6993 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
6994 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
6996 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
6997 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
6998 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
6999 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
7000 private-IP addresses.
7001 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
7002 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
7003 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
7004 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
7005 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
7006 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
7007 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
7008 is valid without actually launching Tor.
7010 o Logging improvements:
7011 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
7012 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
7013 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
7014 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
7016 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
7017 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
7018 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
7019 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
7020 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
7021 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
7022 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
7023 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
7024 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
7026 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
7028 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
7029 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
7030 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
7031 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
7032 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
7033 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
7035 o New contrib scripts:
7036 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
7037 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
7039 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
7040 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
7041 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
7042 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
7043 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
7044 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
7046 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
7047 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
7048 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
7049 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
7053 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
7054 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
7055 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
7056 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
7057 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
7058 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
7059 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
7061 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
7062 something more reasonable when first installing.
7063 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
7064 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
7065 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
7066 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
7068 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
7069 artificially capped at 500kB.
7070 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
7072 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
7073 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
7074 they could use instead.
7075 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
7076 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
7077 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
7078 the user asks you to.
7081 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
7082 rather than just rejecting it.
7083 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
7084 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
7085 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
7086 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
7087 rather than just "success" or "failure".
7088 - A more sane version numbering system. See
7089 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
7090 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
7091 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
7092 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
7093 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
7094 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
7096 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
7097 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
7098 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
7099 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
7101 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
7102 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
7104 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
7105 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
7106 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
7107 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
7109 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
7110 whether the server is hibernating.
7113 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
7114 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
7115 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
7116 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
7117 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
7121 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
7122 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7123 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
7124 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
7125 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
7128 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
7129 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7130 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
7131 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
7132 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
7133 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
7134 busy for more than 100 seconds.
7137 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
7138 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7139 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
7140 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
7141 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
7142 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
7143 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
7144 creating actual system users.
7145 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
7146 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
7150 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
7151 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
7152 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
7153 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
7154 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
7155 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
7156 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
7157 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
7158 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
7159 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
7160 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
7161 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
7162 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
7163 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
7164 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
7166 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
7167 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
7168 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
7169 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
7170 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
7171 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
7172 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
7173 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
7174 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
7175 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
7176 existing torrc files.
7177 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
7180 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
7181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
7182 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
7183 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
7184 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
7185 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
7186 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
7187 the win32 SYSTEM account.
7188 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
7189 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
7190 file descriptors available.
7191 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
7192 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
7193 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
7196 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
7197 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
7198 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
7199 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
7201 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
7202 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
7203 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
7204 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
7205 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
7207 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
7208 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
7209 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
7210 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
7211 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
7212 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
7213 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
7214 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
7215 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
7216 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
7217 800kB/s of capacity.
7218 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
7221 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
7222 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
7223 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
7224 need as much processor time.
7225 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
7226 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
7227 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
7228 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
7229 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
7230 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
7231 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
7232 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
7233 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
7234 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
7235 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
7236 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
7238 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
7239 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
7240 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
7241 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
7242 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
7243 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
7244 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
7247 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
7248 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
7249 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
7251 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
7252 style address, then we'd crash.
7253 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
7254 a dirserver is broken.
7255 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
7257 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
7258 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
7259 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
7261 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
7262 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
7263 name out of the warning/assert messages.
7264 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
7265 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
7266 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
7268 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
7269 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
7270 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
7272 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
7274 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
7275 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
7276 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
7277 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
7278 values at once couldn't work.
7279 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
7280 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
7281 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
7282 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
7283 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
7284 they can handle any number of routers.
7285 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
7286 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
7287 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
7288 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
7289 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
7290 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
7291 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
7292 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
7293 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
7296 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
7297 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
7298 - Make hibernation actually work.
7299 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
7300 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
7301 don't use the stream status code.
7304 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
7305 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
7306 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
7307 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
7308 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
7309 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
7310 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
7311 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
7312 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
7313 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
7314 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
7315 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
7318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
7319 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
7320 win32 socket errors better.
7321 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
7322 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
7323 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
7324 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
7326 - Make unit tests work on win32.
7328 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
7329 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
7330 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
7331 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
7332 right after sending the begin cell.
7333 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
7334 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
7335 exit nodes too. Oops.
7336 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
7337 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
7338 the user would get no response.
7339 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
7340 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
7341 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
7343 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
7344 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
7345 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
7346 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
7347 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
7349 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
7350 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
7351 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
7352 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
7353 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
7354 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
7355 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
7356 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
7357 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
7358 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
7359 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
7361 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
7362 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
7363 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
7364 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
7365 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
7366 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
7367 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
7368 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
7369 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
7370 so we don't see those messages days later.
7371 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
7372 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
7374 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
7375 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
7376 they ran out of file descriptors.
7377 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
7378 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
7379 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
7380 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
7382 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
7383 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
7384 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
7385 the ones we find in directories.)
7386 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
7387 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
7388 if you don't want it open.
7389 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
7390 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
7391 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
7392 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
7393 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
7394 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
7396 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
7397 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
7399 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
7401 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
7402 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
7404 o Features (circuits and streams):
7405 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
7406 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
7407 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
7408 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
7409 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
7410 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
7411 the user knows which one it's talking about.
7412 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
7413 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
7414 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
7415 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
7416 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
7418 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
7420 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
7421 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
7422 to fill the last cell completely.
7423 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
7424 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
7426 o Features (bandwidth):
7427 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
7428 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
7429 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
7430 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
7431 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
7432 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
7433 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
7434 your billing cycle starts on.
7435 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
7436 hibernation properties by
7437 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
7438 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
7439 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
7440 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
7441 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
7443 o Features (directories):
7444 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
7445 nickname to its identity key.
7446 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
7447 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
7448 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
7449 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
7450 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
7452 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
7453 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
7455 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
7456 will be able to get a directory.
7457 - Http proxy support
7458 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
7459 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
7460 be routed through this host.
7461 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
7462 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
7463 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
7464 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
7465 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
7466 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
7468 o Features (packages and install):
7469 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
7470 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
7471 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
7472 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
7473 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
7474 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
7475 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
7476 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
7477 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
7478 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
7481 o Features (ui controller):
7482 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
7483 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
7484 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
7485 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
7486 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
7487 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
7488 with the control port.
7489 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
7490 use in authenticating to the control interface.
7491 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
7492 configuration to torrc.
7493 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
7494 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
7495 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
7497 o Features (config and command-line):
7498 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
7499 not on the command line.
7500 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
7502 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
7503 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
7504 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
7505 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
7506 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
7507 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
7508 - New log format in config:
7509 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
7510 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
7511 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
7512 from their dirserver.
7513 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
7515 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
7516 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
7517 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
7518 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
7519 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
7520 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
7521 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
7522 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
7523 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
7524 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
7525 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
7526 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
7527 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
7528 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
7529 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
7530 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
7531 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
7532 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
7533 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
7534 than once per minute.
7537 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
7538 get back to normal.)
7539 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
7540 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
7541 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
7542 log more informatively.
7543 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
7544 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
7545 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
7546 from each other, to hinder linkability.
7547 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
7548 them act more like real nodes.
7549 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
7550 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
7551 1024) file descriptors.
7552 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
7555 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
7557 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
7558 clients/servers with an open dirport.
7559 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
7560 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
7561 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
7562 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
7563 intermittent connections.
7564 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
7565 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
7567 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
7568 in reporting stats locally.
7569 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
7570 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
7571 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
7574 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
7576 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
7577 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
7578 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
7579 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
7580 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
7581 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
7582 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
7583 list to decide who's running.
7584 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
7585 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
7586 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
7587 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
7588 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
7589 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
7590 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
7591 for pointing out this bug.)
7592 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
7594 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
7595 don't put it into the client dns cache.
7596 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
7597 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
7598 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
7601 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
7602 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
7603 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
7604 hadn't heard of before.
7607 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
7608 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
7609 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
7610 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
7611 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
7612 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
7613 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
7614 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
7615 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
7616 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
7617 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
7618 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
7619 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
7620 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
7621 - Directory caching.
7622 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
7623 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
7624 directory they've pulled down.
7625 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
7626 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
7627 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
7628 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
7629 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
7630 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
7631 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
7633 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
7634 This isn't used yet.
7635 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
7636 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
7637 clients don't use this yet.)
7638 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
7639 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
7640 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
7641 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
7642 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
7643 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
7644 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
7645 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
7646 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
7647 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
7648 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
7649 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
7650 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
7651 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
7652 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
7653 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
7654 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
7655 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
7656 - File and name management:
7657 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
7658 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
7660 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
7661 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
7662 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
7663 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
7664 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
7665 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
7666 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
7668 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
7669 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
7670 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
7672 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
7673 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
7674 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
7675 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
7676 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
7677 - New docs in the tarball:
7679 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
7680 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
7681 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
7682 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
7683 know you might want to get it verified.
7684 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
7685 kazaa, gnutella ports.
7686 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
7687 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
7688 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
7689 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
7690 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
7691 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
7692 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
7694 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
7696 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
7697 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
7699 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
7700 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
7701 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
7704 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
7705 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
7706 ask them to resolve the host "".
7709 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
7710 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
7711 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
7714 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
7715 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
7716 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
7719 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
7720 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
7721 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
7722 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
7724 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
7725 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
7726 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
7728 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
7729 hidden service per 15-minute period.
7730 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
7731 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
7732 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
7733 o Fixes for security bugs:
7734 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
7735 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
7736 a trusted dirserver.
7738 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
7739 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
7740 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
7741 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
7742 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
7743 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
7744 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
7745 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
7746 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
7747 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
7749 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
7750 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
7751 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
7752 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
7753 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
7754 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
7756 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
7759 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
7760 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
7761 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
7762 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
7763 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
7764 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
7765 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
7766 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
7767 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
7768 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
7769 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
7770 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
7771 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
7772 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
7775 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
7776 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
7777 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
7778 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
7781 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
7782 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
7783 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
7784 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
7785 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
7786 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
7787 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
7791 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
7793 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
7794 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
7795 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
7796 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
7797 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
7798 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
7799 if you decrypted them correctly.
7800 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
7801 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
7802 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
7803 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
7804 in-memory directories too.
7805 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
7806 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
7807 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
7808 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
7809 just close the circ.
7810 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
7811 - Better debugging for tls errors
7812 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
7813 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
7815 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
7816 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
7817 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
7818 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
7819 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
7820 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
7821 it tells you about the first error.
7822 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
7823 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
7824 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
7825 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
7826 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
7827 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
7828 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
7829 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
7830 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
7831 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
7833 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
7834 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
7837 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
7838 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
7840 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
7841 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
7842 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
7843 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
7844 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
7845 expect it to have a nickname.
7846 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
7847 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
7848 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
7849 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
7850 the dns farm to do it.
7851 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
7852 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
7854 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
7855 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
7856 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
7857 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
7858 but that aren't warnings
7861 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
7862 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
7866 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
7867 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
7868 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
7869 - include missing header fcntl.h
7870 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
7871 - deal with hardware word alignment
7872 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
7873 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
7874 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
7875 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
7876 by kill -USR1 currently.
7877 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
7878 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
7879 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
7882 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
7883 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
7884 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
7887 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
7889 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
7890 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
7891 - And fix a few endian issues.
7894 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
7896 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
7897 try that circuit again: try a new one.
7898 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
7899 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
7900 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
7901 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
7902 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
7903 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
7905 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
7906 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
7907 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
7909 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
7911 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
7912 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
7913 side isn't reading right then.
7914 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
7916 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
7917 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
7918 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
7921 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
7923 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
7924 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
7927 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
7931 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
7933 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
7934 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
7935 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
7936 connection is finished.
7937 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
7938 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
7939 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
7940 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
7941 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
7942 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
7943 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
7944 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
7945 rather than warn and continue.
7946 - Make --version work
7947 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
7950 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
7952 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
7954 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
7955 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
7957 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
7958 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
7959 so you can collect coredumps there.
7961 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
7962 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
7963 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
7964 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
7965 dns cache actually gets populated.
7966 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
7967 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
7968 end cell down it first.
7969 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
7970 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
7973 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
7975 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
7976 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
7978 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
7979 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
7980 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
7981 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
7982 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
7983 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
7985 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
7987 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
7988 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
7989 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
7990 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
7991 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
7992 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
7994 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
7995 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
7998 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
8000 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
8001 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
8002 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
8003 tor. It even has a man page.
8004 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
8005 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
8006 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
8007 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
8009 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
8011 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
8014 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
8016 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
8018 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
8019 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
8020 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
8021 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
8022 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
8023 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
8024 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
8025 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
8026 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
8027 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
8028 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
8030 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
8031 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
8034 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
8036 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
8037 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
8040 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
8042 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
8043 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
8044 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
8045 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
8046 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
8047 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
8048 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
8049 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
8050 logfile so you know it's working.
8051 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
8052 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
8055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
8057 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
8058 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
8059 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
8062 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
8064 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
8065 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
8066 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
8069 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
8070 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
8071 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
8073 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
8074 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
8076 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
8077 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
8078 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
8080 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
8081 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
8085 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
8087 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
8088 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
8089 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
8092 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
8093 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
8094 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
8095 - Add port ranges to exit policies
8096 - Add a conservative default exit policy
8097 - Warn if you're running tor as root
8098 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
8099 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
8100 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
8101 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
8103 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
8106 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
8107 o Robustness and bugfixes:
8108 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
8109 really screw things up.
8110 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
8112 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
8113 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
8115 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
8116 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
8117 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
8118 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
8119 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
8120 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
8123 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
8126 - Change default loglevel to warn.
8127 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
8128 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
8130 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
8133 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
8134 o Robustness and bugfixes:
8135 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
8136 - to get ownership/permissions right
8137 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
8138 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
8139 pull down a directory again
8140 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
8141 causing server crashes
8142 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
8143 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
8144 - exit if bind() fails
8145 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
8146 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
8147 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
8148 - fix minor bias in PRNG
8149 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
8152 - Wrote the design document (woo)
8154 o Circuit building and exit policies:
8155 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
8157 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
8158 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
8159 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
8160 exists, rather than failing
8161 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
8162 which AP connections are standing by
8163 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
8164 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
8165 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
8167 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
8168 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
8171 - APPort is now called SocksPort
8172 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
8174 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
8175 hardcoded (for dirservers)
8176 - Reloads config on HUP
8177 - Usage info on -h or --help
8178 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
8180 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
8181 o General stability:
8182 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
8183 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
8184 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
8185 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
8186 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
8187 to take down the network when I approve a new router
8188 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
8191 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
8192 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
8194 o Autoconf improvements:
8195 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
8196 - Make install now works
8197 - create var/lib/tor on make install
8198 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
8199 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
8201 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
8202 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
8203 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
8204 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup